In this powerful workbook for teens, pediatric pain specialist Rachel Zoffness offers evidence-based strategies to help you turn the volume down on chronic pain and illness and get back to living your life. Living with chronic pain and illness can be difficult, scary, and sometimes lonely. But if you’re one of the millions of teens who suffer from chronic pain, you should know that thereare real tools you can use now to help you feel better. Blending cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), this workbook provides proven-effective solutions to help you take control of your pain and get back to beingyou! With this powerful and easy-to-use workbook, you’ll learn how pain affects both your mind and body, how negative emotions can make pain worse, and strategies to help you turn the volume down on your pain, so you can go back to enjoying activities that you love. You’ll also learn mindfulness and relaxation exercises, including belly breathing and body scan to help manage pain in the moment. The exercises and strategies in this book are rooted in research, fun to learn, and easy to practice. And the best part? You can carry them with you wherever you go. Take them out into the world and take charge of your pain—and your life! About the Author: Rachel Zoffness, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, medical consultant, educator, and author specializing in chronic pain, medical illness, and injury. She provides cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to youths and families, provides lectures and trainings, and serves as a consultant to hospitals and health professionals. Dr. Zoffness teaches medical school courses in pain neuroscience education at UCSF-Children’s Hospital Oakland. She was trained at Brown, Columbia, UCSD/SDSU, the NYU Child Study Center, StLuke's Roosevelt Hospital, and the Mindful Center. She taught psychology courses at SDSU, supervised therapists-in-training at the Wright Institute’s CBT Clinic, and has published extensively on evidence-based therapies. She serves on the Steering Committee of the American Association of Pain Psychology (AAPP), founded AAPP’s Pediatric Division, and is a member of the East Bay Pediatrician's Journal Club. She collaborates with UCSF's Pediatric Brain Center and Pain and Palliative Care Clinic; Stanford’s Pediatric Pain Management Clinic, and consults on the development of international pain programs. When not seeing patients, reading, or writing, Rachel can typically be found chasing butterflies in the California wilderness. |