Clinical Strategies to Treat The Relationship to Pain
Summary
This course will explore how to assess and understand pain in clinical settings. Focus will be placed on utilizing the language of the client to explore the roots of pain, impact on identity and relationships. Interactive assessment tools will be introduced to explore sources of pain, history of pain, connection of pain to lifestyle and relational adaptions. The course will utilize tools from multiple modalities to explore treatment interventions related to pain.
Utilize assessment tools to track historical and body markers of pain and cognitive beliefs held about pain.
Apply intervention tools to challenge cognition to pain and engage with the body in empowerment-focused framework.
Utilize tools of visualization and expressive therapy to practice forms of therapy for individuals surviving pain.
Agenda
Date
Time
Description
May 1, 2025
9:00am - 9:30am
Introduction / Defining Types of Pain
May 1, 2025
9:30am - 10:00am
Assessing and Understanding Pain
May 1, 2025
10:00am - 10:30am
Adapting the Relationship to Pain / The Development of New Neural Pathways