The Practical Pain Management Handbook

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).

Key Features

• Intensive inpatient and extended outpatient programmes, each at least 25 hours in length.
• Interactive materials designed to form the basis of group discussion, with suggested answers provided for questions in the text.
• Assignments and tasks that can be used for homework or group session exercises.
• Incorporation of standard Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) technologies, both valuable in PMPs.

Additional Information

The handbook is organised into sections to fit a useful logical sequence but can be adapted to suit your preference.