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Pain is More than We Understand it to be: Understanding Pain Psychology and How to Have Better Conversations at the Bedside
Understanding Pain Psychology and How to Have Better Conversations at the Bedside," delves into the complex interplay between pain, psychology, and social factors. This session will clarify the distinctions between nociception, pain, and suffering, emphasizing their unique characteristics within the pain experience. Participants will gain an understanding of how psychological and social factors contribute to chronic pain, exploring the multifaceted nature of persistent pain. The lecture will then investigate the evidence supporting various psychological interventions, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), relaxation techniques, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Crucially, this session will provide guidance on how to have more effective and empathetic conversations with patients about their pain, and discuss appropriate utilization of psychological services to optimize patient outcomes.
Target Audience
Physicians
Advanced Practice Clinicians
Learning Objectives
- Describe the continuum and distinct differences between nociception, pain, and suffering
- Understand how psychological and social factors influence chronic pain
- Investigate evidence for psychological interventions
- CBT
- Relaxation
- ACT
- Learn how to have better conversations with patients about pain
- Discuss when to utilize psychological services to improve outcomes
Dr. Don Stader, MD FACEP FASAM is a board-certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, who works at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. Don is also the founder and Executive Director of The Naloxone Project. He is the founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP's Opioid Task Force, the Editor-in-Chief of COACEP's 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines and the CO's CURE’s guidelines on pain control and opioid stewardship. Don served for over 2 years as the Senior Pain Management & Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation, he is the current chair of ACEP’s Pain & Addiction Management Section. He is the Medical Director of the Compass Opioid Stewardship Program, a nationwide initiative to improve pain control, prescribing habits, addiction treatment and opioid stewardship for primary care clinicians.
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: The Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support: This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company. *The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.
Disclosure: Compass adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. Compass has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™