Description
Designed for maximum clinical utility, this volume shows how to tailor psychological treatment programs to patients suffering from a wide range of pain problems. Conceptual and diagnostic issues are discussed, widely used clinical models reviewed, and a framework presented for integrating psychological treatment with medical and surgical interventions.
Chapter
2. Psychological Disorders and Chronic Pain: Are There Cause-and-Effect Relationships?
3. Conducting and Evaluating Treatment Outcome Studies
Part II. Treatment Approaches and Methods
4. Enhancing Motivation to Change in Pain Treatment
5. Integrating Relational Psychodynamic and Action-Oriented Psychotherapies: Treating Pain and Suffering
6. Operant Conditioning with Chronic Pain: Back to Basics
7. A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective on Treatment of Chronic Pain Patients
8. Biofeedback Training for Chronic Pain Disorders: A Primer
9. Hypnosis and Imagery in the Treatment of Pain
10. Graded Exposure In Vivo for Pain-Related Fear
11. Group Therapy for Patients with Chronic Pain
12. Treating Families of Chronic Pain Patients: Application of a Cognitive-Behavioral Transactional Model
13. Integration of Pharmacotherapy with Psychological Treatment of Chronic Pain
Part III. Specific Syndromes and Populations
14. Improving the Management of Low Back Pain: A Paradigm Shift for Primary Care
15. A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to the Prevention of Chronic Back Pain
16. Preparing Patients for Implantable Technologies
17. Occupational Musculoskeletal Pain and Disability
18. Cognitive-Behavioral Management of Recurrent Headache Disorders: A Minimal-Therapist-Contact Approach
19. Treatment of Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome
20. Treatment of Whiplash-Associated Disorders
21. Treatment of Patients with Temporomandibular Disorders
22. Treating the Patient with Pelvic Pain
23. Treating Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
24. Treating Patients with Noncardiac Chest Pain and Functional Gastrointestinal Pain Syndromes
25. Treating Pain in Cancer Patients
26. Treating Patients with Somatoform Pain Disorder and Hypochondriasis
27. A Practical Cognitive-Behavioral Approach for Treating Children’s Pain
28. Persistent Pain in the Older Patient