Imagine helping your clients understand that pain is not an option and that misery is possible. Strengthen the therapeutic relationship by validating the reality of clients’ pain while introducing ways to help them immediately experience a lessening of their distress.
Robert Rosenbaum – 2-Day,Chronic Pain Certificate Course, Behavioral Treatment & Assessment
Another client walks into your office angry about the daily suffering they are experiencing from chronic pain. They begin to share their stories and the masks of frustration fall away, revealing the despair and hopelessness of living in constant pain. Although most clinicians are not trained to treat chronic pain, this scenario is becoming more common as at least 1/3 our clients suffer from it. More and more clients are moving away from medication, seeking out holistic solutions, yet we’re not quite sure of the best way to help them.
Imagine helping your clients understand that pain is not an option and that misery is possible. Strengthen the therapeutic relationship by validating the reality of clients’ pain while introducing ways to help them immediately experience a lessening of their distress. To help clients understand the connection between mind and body, acupressure and meditation can be explored.
This recording features Dr. Robert Rosenbaum, will teach you the facts about pains’ biology and effective treatment strategies, so you can confidently educate and treat your clients. You will be able to combine cognitive exercises with experiential exercises like guided imagery, acupressure and meditation.-behavioral methods, you’ll leave with the right skills and tools at your fingertips to treat chronic pain.
- For client psychoeducation purposes, explore strategies to prevent pain from beginning.
- Explain the importance of early intervention and the clinical implications.
- Identify the most common complaints related to pain management.
- Describe the effects of age, gender, ethnicity, culture on pain perception in relation to case conceptualization.
- It is important to distinguish between the different types of pain that require different treatment strategies.
- You can relate how the brain and the mind affect pain in client psychoeducation.
- To improve client functioning, it is important to examine and counter the maladaptive myths surrounding pain.
- Assess pain through specialized questionnaires and interview methods to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Describe four meditation methods that can be used to deal with pain.
- Six acupressure points can be used to help clients manage and prevent pain.
- Clients can use guided imagery to reduce pain.
- Identify the existential, spiritual and personal aspects of your life-Identity issues can interact with the psychological and biological components of pain in relation to treatment outcomes.
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Chronic Influence Pain Mental Health
Primary Prevention
- Prevention is the best treatment
- Early detection and intervention
Pain Prevalence and Impact
- Prevalence and incidence: Most common types
- Societal costs
- Impact on client’s mental health and quality life
Sociodemographic factors
Biology of Pain
- What is pain?
- Environmental, psychological, and physical factors
- Pain Intensity vs. distress
- Types Pain
- Nociceptive, neuropathic and
- Location has an effect
- Etiology, temporal course and sensation
- Inflammation, cancer, Ischemic
- Acute vs. Chronic pain
- Pain Transmission and modulation
- Neurochemicals for pain
- PainStrain, Brain, and?
- Central sensitization
- The role of attention
- PainBasic Biology Beyond
- Biopsychosocial model
- Vicious circles of maladaptive strategies for coping
- Emotional and psychological aspects of pain
- Pain’s effect on the sense of self
- How to counter pain myths
AssessmentManagement, Interventions and Management
Pain Treatment Options
- Medical procedures and medications
- Introduction to analgesics
- Opioids – Facts and Myths
The opioid epidemic
- Opioid efficacy, risks
- Tolerance or addiction?
- Addiction and abuse are possible
Assessment
- These are the basics
- The interview
- Psychometric instruments
- Pain vs. distress
Behavioral Treatment
- Technique vs. relationship
- Meditations and mindfulness
- The reality and the hype
- Focuses and open awareness
- Four breathing techniques
- Comfort strategies: You are bigger than the Pain
- Awareness
- Early detection is important
- Concretizing with images and names
- Re-Focus
- Widening and narrowing of attention
- Going to the center; going distal
- Imagery and self-Hypnosis
- Re-Think
- CBT for catastrophizing
- Separate distress from pain
- Flares are a great way to get creative
- Additional tools for behavioral therapy
- Pacing
- Gentle movement
- Face, hands, and feet are important
- Acupressure for self-massage
- Qigong to relieve pain
- Sleep and rest
- Enjoy
- Positives can be nurtured
- Antidotes for difficult emotions
- Increasing emotional granularity
- Relate
- Foster positive relationships
- You have to deal with difficult relationships
Differential treatment considerations
Integrative interventions: The results
Research limitations and potential risks of psychotherapeutic methods
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
