Chronic Pain in Older Adults: A Neuroscience-Based Psychological Assessment and Treatment Approach

Chronic Pain in Older Adults: A Neuroscience-Based Psychological Assessment and Treatment Approach is organized by American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP).

Start Date: Jan 13, 2022
End Date:  Jan 13, 2023

Description:
Psychological chronic pain treatments are highly suitable for older adults, as they can help decrease the risk from opioids and other medical or surgical procedures. Yet established options—cognitive-behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness meditation—produce only modest and time-limited benefits. This may be because they approach all chronic pain similarly, focus on accepting or coping with pain rather than pain reduction, and overlook major emotional and interpersonal drivers of chronic pain (e.g., life stress and trauma).

Objectives for Webinar:
• Understand the relationships between stress, emotions, the brain, and subtypes of chronic pain.
• Perform a brief, integrative assessment to elicit evidence of pain centralization.
• Use basic principles from Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) to address centralized chronic
  pain in older adults.