The successful management of chronic pain remains an elusive goal. As more complex diagnostic and intervention procedures become available, patients and clinicians alike have ever-greater expectations of banishing the problem of pain altogether. Unfortunately this hope is rarely fulfilled and the frustration experienced by everyone affected by chronic pain has remained more or less the same over the last two or three decades. Based on over 40 years' of experience and research The Practical Pain Management Handbook is a unique resource specifically designed for therapists involved in running Pain Management Programmes (PMPs). This engaging and effective handbook includes: • intensive inpatient and extended outpatient programmes all of which are at least 25 hours in length • interactive materials designed to be used to form the basis of group discussion. Where there is a question in the text the suggested answer material is provided • assignments and tasks that can be used as homework or group session exercises • both standard Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) technologies as both have been found to be valuable in PMPs Contents: Section 1 Introduction for Therapists Section 2 Pain Management Programme Introduction: Multidisciplinary Assessment Session Section 3 Pain Diaries Section 4 Understanding Chronic Pain: ‘All in the Mind’ and Other Myths – Models, Anatomy and Theories Section 5 Understanding Diagnosis and Interventions Section 6 Beginning the Process of Change in Negative Thinking in Chronic Pain Management: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Approach Section 7 An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Section 8 More on Mindfulness Section 9 Goals and Values Section 10 More on Cognitive Defusion Section 11 Stress and Its Effects on Chronic Pain Section 12 Relaxation and Chronic Pain Section 13 Sleep and Chronic Pain Section 14 Relationships, Communication and Intimacy in Chronic Pain Section 15 Self-esteem and Chronic Pain Section 16 The Role of Exercise in Chronic Pain Section 17 Family and Friends Section 18 Pain Management Programme Problem Pages Section 19 Coping with Your Flare-ups Section 20 Further Reading and Useful Resources |