Events
Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to Pain Coping Skills Training: Basic Elements and Advanced Issues
Workshop with Professor Frank Keefe and staff from INPUT
Date: Friday 8th and Saturday 9th December 2006
Venue: INPUT Pain Management Unit, Gassiot House, St. Thomas’
Hospital, London SE1 7EH
Cost: £120 for 2 days.
The main emphasis of this workshop will be to:
- Update your knowledge of current management for painful musculoskeletal conditions.
- Broaden your understanding of how the beliefs of the patient and therapist affect the patient outcome.
- Enhance your practical skills and be more effective in your interactions with patients.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a practical guide to delivering cognitive-behavioural training in pain coping skills. To illustrate principles and treatment techniques, the workshop will feature extensive use of demonstrations, role plays, and discussion sessions. For each topic presented, practical tips will be provided for dealing with basic issues (e.g. format for delivering treatment) as well as advanced issues (e.g. dealing with problems with adherence and patient resistance). Topics to be addressed include the role of therapists' beliefs and patients' beliefs, providing credible rationales for pain coping skills training, basic and applied relaxation training, activity pacing, communicating with patients, cognitive-restructuring, and maintenance enhancement training. The workshop will also include special presentations on emerging issues in this area including those related to return to work.
While this Workshop is principally aimed at physiotherapists we are holding some places for OTs, nurses or assistant psychologists who work with physios on PMPs and would like to attend.
Details and Application form available on http://www.inputpainunit.co.uk/education.htm
Plans for the next NOTPA study day and AGM are in process. Please see the next NOTPA newsletter for information from PMP Conference in Nottingham and 10th Anniversary NOTPA AGM.
NOTPA offer lectures on Occupational Therapy in Pain Management
throughout the UK.
For details please contact: Marietta.Birkholtz@realhealth.org.uk
