Children's early life experiences play a critical role in shaping children's foundational beliefs about pain, injury, and recovery processes. These foundational beliefs are likely to be important in guiding children's behaviours to subsequent pain and injury experiences, which may have an impact on future recovery. How pain and injury are portrayed across social, cultural, and environmental contexts are therefore likely to be important in guiding these beliefs and behaviours, which children take with them through adolescence and adulthood. Encouraging young children to develop an understanding of pain and injury that promotes adaptive pain beliefs and behaviours is likely to be important to promote recovery and build resilience after injury. Therefore, understanding how pain is portrayed in broader socio-cultural learning contexts is likely to be just as important so as to foster this development.In this presentation Dr Wallwork will present new research exploring the socialisation of pain in early childhood, including the findings of an innovative new analysis that integrates narrative book analysis with a qualitative analysis of parent-child conversations about pain. She will discuss research that points to clear opportunities for parents/caregivers, educators, and clinicians that may help to promote resilience and recovery in children after injury.