The Psychological Management of Chronic Pain

This updated and expanded volume is a practical guide for clinicians to help their clients manage and alleviate problems associated with chronic pain. Based on the Gate Control Model, the manual provides detailed and structured information to enable the cognitive-behavioral-oriented clinician to conduct a time-limited, theapist-guided self-management program. The edition places an emphasis on the cognitive components of treatment, including chapters on the "new" psychology of pain; memory of pain; the overprediction of pain; pain related cognition; the measurement of pain.

A companion patient's manual is also available. It is designed to aid patients who are participating in this course of treatment and contains supplementary information to the nine-session course presented in the treatment manual. Designed to help patients review all of the material presented in each session, this is a resource to be drawn on in difficult times, to help cope with setbacks, and to share with others.