Assessing Psychosocial Factors for Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
Assessing Psychosocial Factors for Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
This course includes
The instructors
Overview
Psychosocial factors are aspects of the person, their problem, and their social context, that may affect rehabilitation (Kendall et al., 1997; Glattacker et al., 2018). These include but are not limited to, the patient’s attitudes and beliefs, emotions, behaviours, family, and workplace factors (Nicholas et al., 2011).
Despite the urgings of clinical practice guidelines and evidence of the influence of psychosocial factors on clinical outcomes, screening for yellow flags is uncommon in clinical practice (Stearns et al., 2021). There is growing evidence on rehabilitation interventions that target psychosocial interventions for people with chronic pain, although it remains unclear the effectiveness of these interventions (Kent et al., 2012).
In this course, attendees will be provided with and overview of psychosocial factors in chronic pain rehabilitation, developing assessment strategies.
Learning Objectives
In this online course, participants will:
- Be introduced to the concept of psychosocial barriers for chronic pain treatment
- Explore the relevance of these factors and how these may influence chronic pain rehabilitation. You will learn tools and strategies to assess psychosocial factors within the chronic pain context.
- Identify, understand, and assess psychosocial barriers for pain rehabilitation.
- Learn effective strategies and approaches targeting psychosocial factors for pain rehabilitation
- Assimilate evidence regarding the relevance of psychosocial barriers and their treatment for chronic pain rehabilitation.
- Develop clinical reasoning skills related to the presence and treatment of psychosocial barriers for chronic pain rehabilitation.
Audience
This course is suitable for Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists with interested on pain rehabilitation not working in a specialised chronic pain rehabilitation.
The instructors
MSc (Health Science Research) BSc (Physiotherapist) MCSP
Marc is a physiotherapist, researcher, and lecturer with over ten years of experience on the treatment of long-term complex conditions, including neurological and chronic pain syndromes.
He has an MSc in Health Science Research and he is currently undertaking a PhD exploring the relationship between cognition, human movement and pain. Marc teaches across a variety of clinical settings and countries.
Marc is a dedicated lecturer committed to providing evidence-based education to a wide variety of health professionals. He is Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation instructor certified by the International Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation Association.
You can find Marc on X (@PiqueBatalla)