International Association for the Study of Pain | Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain

Product Details
Publish Year: 2005
Format: hardcover, 148 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-931092-83-1

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This book reviews the latest developments in the psychology of chronic pain, providing an overview of a practical, comprehensive, and theoretically integrative approach that significantly expands the scope of current treatment methods. The past 30 years have seen a changing focus within pain management regarding patients' behaviors, thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, as well as a new awareness of the importance of social context. This flexible new perspective is consistent with any approach to pain treatment that leads to freer and fuller patient functioning.

This volume describes the array of empirically based treatment methods now available to clinicians together with novel approaches to exposure-based methods and the promotion of coping techniques. Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain was written for psychologists and other clinicians who treat patients with chronic pain, and for researchers of psychological aspects of pain.

Foreword: The Opportunities and Challenges of Acceptance-Based Approaches to Pain
Francis J. Keefe, PhD

Foreword: Empowering the Lives of Chronic Pain Patients
Steven C. Hayes, PhD

Preface

The Problem of Chronic Pain
Psychological Approaches to Chronic Pain
Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Theory
Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment
A Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Chronic Pain and Disability
Acceptance of Chronic Pain
Acceptance-Based Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Methods
Values and Values-Based Action
Activity Engagement and Overt Behavior Change
The Future

Appendix
References
Index

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"This book is not an easy read, particularly for those not familiar with the field. So, is it worth the effort for the average pain doctor? The answer has to be 'yes' for three reasons.

"Firstly, anyone who works in a multidisciplinary team should have a clear understanding of what their colleagues are doing and thinking. Not only does this guide referral decisions but also gives a different perspective on how one's own interventions affect the patient.

"Secondly, how many pain services are led by doctors who have to advise managers on clinical and financial priorities for the service. Real decisions have to be made, for example, about whether to bid for three dorsal column stimulators per year or for a psychotherapist who can deliver this sort of therapy to ~50 patients per year, and this book will support that sort of decision-making.

"Finally, those who control funds should expect considerable pressure from psychotherapy colleagues to buy this for the library, so you have been warned!"
British Journal of Anaesthesia, Vol 96, No 1, Jan 2006, by J. Jessop

"Overall, the editor/author does a good job of presenting contextual cognitive-behavioral therapy issues for chronic pain and at a reasonable cost it is a worthwhie addition to any comprehensize library."
Journal of Neuropathic Pain & Symptom Palliation, Vol. 2(3) 2006, by Howard S. Smith, MD, FACP

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Lance M. McCracken, PhD, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead of the Pain Management Unit, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, in Bath, in the United Kingdom. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. Dr. McCracken was a member of the faculty and head of the Behavioral Medicine Pain Service in the Departments of Psychiatry and Anesthesia and Critical Care at The University of Chicago for six years before beginning work in Bath in 2000.

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