CME Sponsor: 

National Association for Continuing Education (NACE)


Course Directors/Instructors:
Ellen Lavin, PhD

Cost: $36.00

Number of Credits: 3 hours CE

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Detailed Description:

This course will outline biological, behavioral, psychological, social-environmental and mind-body treatment approaches to pain management and introduce techniques and interventions that mental health practitioners can use to be most effective. In addition, participants will be introduced to novel approaches to chronic pain management such as acceptance and commitment therapy, a new psychological treatment that helps clients disidentify with troubling thoughts associated with pain. Case examples will be utilized to illustrate how a mental health practitioner develops appropriate treatment plans for patients with chronic pain. Finally, special topics of interest to mental health practitioners will include: 1)treating chronic pain patients with a history of drug abuse; 2) treating special populations with pain, such as the elderly and patients with AIDS; 3) suicide and pain, and 4) reducing a client’s resistance to participation in psychological treatments.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe two biological approaches to the management of nociception
  • Identify the primary behavioral goals for patients with chronic pain
  • Define target cognitions for cognitive therapy of chronic pain patients
  • Discuss the social environmental factors that affect pain management
  • Develop a treatment plan for a patient with chronic pain