PSYC 203 Lecture Notes - Chronic Pain, Pain Management, Biopsychosocial Model
31 Jan 2014
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Pain sucks but your life doesn"t have to! A primer on the research methods of cbt pain management. Chronic pain infiltrates your life. This lecture is research into this idea. We"re building a culture of experts. We"re at real risk of becoming a specialty and missing the multiple problems. Assess a person on all factors of their life. Patients have been treated as abnormal and are skeptical of talking to a psychologist. The only thing that they are going through is a biological dysfunction pain. But then there is comorbidity. They still have not been able to lump together a pain- prone personality. It is not a homogenous problem. Huge heterogeneity when it comes to the expression of pain, how it impacts us. Predisposing factors + precipitating factors + maintaining factors. Being completely mindful of everything. Holding the experience in a sense in the moment and then move on. Naming the endpoint of stress as depression.
