Pain management practical applications of the biopsychosocial perspective in clinical and occupational settings

• Main Authors: Main, Chris J. (Author), Sullivan, Michael J. L. (Author), Watson, Paul J. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Churchill Livingstone Elsevier 2008
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Pain Management; Pain > psychology; Pain Measurement
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Pain management is a growing area of interest for many health care professionals. It is a truly integrated approach involving a team comprising medical practitioners, clinical psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and nurse practitioners. Different professions may work together bu...

Table of Contents:

• Models of pain and disability
• Psychological mechanisms
• The psychological impact of pain and disability
• Cultural and social influences on pain and disability
• Risk identification and screening
• Biomedical and pain assessment in secondary and tertiary-care settings / Bengt H. Sjölund
• The assessment of pain and function
• Psychological assessment
• The nature of psychosocial interventions
• Intervention models and techniques
• Tertiary pain management programmes
• Economic and medicolegal influences on pain and disability
• Psychological perspectives on work
• Pain and work: individually focused interventions
• Pain and work: organisational perspectives / with Kay Greasley.