Psychological Interventions Chronic Pain
Medical science is increasingly aligning with a biopsychosocial treatment perspective that understands pain and symptoms as coming from multifaceted experience characterized by the complexity that is inherently human (Roditi & Robinson, 2011). Many vectors come together in this biopsychosocial perspective: the physicological and emotional state of the individual tend to dominate, garnering most of the medical attention these variables align with conventional medical and behavioral training (Roditi & Robinson, 2011). In addition, the influence of culture, ethnicity, and society on the interpretation of health and disease are important considerations (Roditi & Robinson, 2011). The literature on mind-body connection provides strong evidence of the impact that an individual's emotions can have on their behavior and, interestingly, provides findings that the reverse can also be true (Roditi & Robinson, 2011).
Chronic pain is considered to be an illness from a biopsychosocial perspective, and not a disease (Roditi & Robinson, 2011). The subjective experience of chronic pain requires management (Roditi & Robinson, 2011). The treatment interventions are aimed at the relieving the pain through enhanced self-management (Roditi & Robinson, 2011). Important components of the self-management strategy are behavioral change and cognitive change (Roditi & Robinson, 2011). This is particularly true with the cause of the pain cannot be eliminated, directly mediated, or identified (Roditi & Robinson, 2011).
A number of empirically demonstrated...
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