Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Explain what reconceptualization of pain involves.
-List 3 techniques for how to proceed if the patient feels completion of a pain assessment is aversive or a waste of his/her time.
-Give an example of how the therapist might discuss the cycle of chronic pain with the patient/client.
-List 4 goals to discuss with your patient/client to divert their focus away from their pain.
-Give a response to facilitiate the patient/client to conceptualize and manage chronic pain effectively.
-Give an analogy that can be made regarding practicing and learning relaxation, to demonstrate that over time, relaxation exercises become easier to implement, with less thought.
-Describe how to help cients/patients prone to black and white thinking to find more creative solutions for how to be involved in pleasurable activities.
-Name 5 examples of self-monitoring that your patient/client can use to process his/her negative thoughts associated with pain.
-List 2 examples of coping statements that your patient with chronic pain can use to calm themselves.
-Name 5 examples of insomnia stimulus control instructions a therapist may discuss with his/her patients/clients.
-Give an example of collaborating to develop a discharge plan for activities.
-Give an example of what the therapist can discuss if the patient/client has reverted back to a low level of activity and has resumed resting and guarding for much of the day after therapy has ended.

"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."