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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Anaesthetics > Pain & pain management
Although pain is widely recognized by clinicians and researchers as
an experience, pain is always felt in a patient-specific way rather
than experienced for what it objectively is, making perceived
meaning important in the study of pain. The book contributors
explain why meaning is important in the way that pain is felt and
promote the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods to
study meanings of pain. For the first time in a book, the study of
the meanings of pain is given the attention it deserves. All pain
research and medicine inevitably have to negotiate how pain is
perceived, how meanings of pain can be described within the fabric
of a person's life and neurophysiology, what factors mediate them,
how they interact and change over time, and how the relationship
between patient, researcher, and clinician might be understood in
terms of meaning. Though meanings of pain are not intensively
studied in contemporary pain research or thoroughly described as
part of clinical assessment, no pain researcher or clinician can
avoid asking questions about how pain is perceived or the types of
data and scientific methods relevant in discovering the answers.
This groundbreaking analysis moves our knowledge of pain and its
effects from the biomedical model to one accounting for its complex
psychosocial dimensions. Starting with its facial and physical
display, pain is shown in its manifold social contexts-in the
lifespan, in a family unit, expressed by a member of a gender
and/or race-and as observed by others. These observations by
caregivers and family are shown as vital to the social dynamic of
pain-as observers react to sufferers' pain, and as these reactions
affect those suffering. The book's findings should enhance
practitioners' understanding of pain to develop more effective
individualized treatments for clients' pain experience, and inspire
researchers as well. Among the topics covered: Why do we care?
Evolutionary mechanisms in the social dimension of pain. When, how,
and why do we express pain? On the overlap between physical and
social pain. Facing others in pain: why context matters. Caregiving
impact upon sufferers' cognitive functioning. Targeting individual
and interpersonal processes in therapeutic interventions for
chronic pain. Social and Interpersonal Dynamics in Pain will be a
valuable resource for clinicians who deal in pain practice and
management, as well as for students and researchers interested in
the social, interpersonal, and emotional variables that contribute
to pain, the processes with which pain is associated, and the
psychology of pain in general.
Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete
understanding of the key topics in these archetypal
multidisciplinary fields. In a form immediately useful to
scientists, this periodical aims to filter, highlight and review
the latest developments in these rapidly advancing fields.
This expansive text offers a comprehensive mind/body/spirit
framework for relieving individual patients of the debilitating
effects of long-term disease while reducing the public burden of
chronic illness. It introduces the patient-centered Pathways Model,
featuring a robust scientific base for psychotherapy, complementary
and alternative modalities, and a religious/spiritual element, in
progressive levels of treatment from self-help to professional
help. Chapters spotlight component skills of the model, including
treatment planning, patient rapport, and choosing therapies for
optimal well-being. The authors advocate for interventions ranging
from lifestyle change to mindfulness, and biofeedback to pastoral
counseling. In addition, in-depth case studies detail memorable
patient journeys from diagnosis and referral to assessment,
engagement in treatment and outcome. Among the topics covered: *
Mind, body, and spirit in chronic illness. * The need for an
integrative model to support comprehensive health-supportive
change. * Chronic disease from a functional medicine perspective. *
Mechanisms by which religious engagement and religion-based
variables affect health. * Complementary and integrative medicine
for the Pathways Model. * PLUS: Pathways approaches to chronic
pain, caregiver stress, diabetes, mood disorders, PTSD, brain
injury, heart disease, cancer, and more. Emphasizing patient
individuality and clinician creativity, Integrative Pathways models
a compassionate approach to lessening persistent suffering for use
by health psychologists, physicians, counselors, health coaches,
and other practitioners involved in complementary and integrative
medicine, pain medicine, and rehabilitation. "The Pathway Model
addresses what clinical researchers in the field have been calling
for, a research-based approach to health and wellness that clearly
explains important concepts and provides an optimal foundation from
which to approach health interventions." Patrick R. Steffen, PhD,
BCB, Brigham Young University
This book brings together contributions from key investigators in
the area of pathological pain. It covers the molecular basis of
receptors and channels involved in nociception, the possible
messages that cause neuropathic plasticity, spinal plasticity in
neuropathy, plastic changes in opioid systems in neuropathy and
opioid tolerance, and plastic changes related to pathological pain.
Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees,
toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and
heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other
people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is
easy to assume this is the end of the story:
'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is
not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe
as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain
served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from
God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this life
and you wouldn't suffer in the next one'. Submission to pain was
required. Nothing could be more removed from twentieth and
twenty-first century understandings, where pain is regarded as an
unremitting evil to be 'fought'. Focusing on the English-speaking
world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth
century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and
nature of suffering over the last three centuries. How have those
in pain interpreted their suffering - and how have these
interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to
conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react?
And what about medical professionals: should they immerse
themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind
of professional detachment? As Joanna Bourke shows in this
fascinating investigation, people have come up with many different
answers to these questions over time. And a history of pain can
tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own
suffering in the present - and, just as importantly, to the
suffering of those around us.
This expansive text offers a comprehensive mind/body/spirit
framework for relieving individual patients of the debilitating
effects of long-term disease while reducing the public burden of
chronic illness. It introduces the patient-centered Pathways Model,
featuring a robust scientific base for psychotherapy, complementary
and alternative modalities, and a religious/spiritual element, in
progressive levels of treatment from self-help to professional
help. Chapters spotlight component skills of the model, including
treatment planning, patient rapport, and choosing therapies for
optimal well-being. The authors advocate for interventions ranging
from lifestyle change to mindfulness, and biofeedback to pastoral
counseling. In addition, in-depth case studies detail memorable
patient journeys from diagnosis and referral to assessment,
engagement in treatment and outcome. Among the topics covered: *
Mind, body, and spirit in chronic illness. * The need for an
integrative model to support comprehensive health-supportive
change. * Chronic disease from a functional medicine perspective. *
Mechanisms by which religious engagement and religion-based
variables affect health. * Complementary and integrative medicine
for the Pathways Model. * PLUS: Pathways approaches to chronic
pain, caregiver stress, diabetes, mood disorders, PTSD, brain
injury, heart disease, cancer, and more. Emphasizing patient
individuality and clinician creativity, Integrative Pathways models
a compassionate approach to lessening persistent suffering for use
by health psychologists, physicians, counselors, health coaches,
and other practitioners involved in complementary and integrative
medicine, pain medicine, and rehabilitation. "The Pathway Model
addresses what clinical researchers in the field have been calling
for, a research-based approach to health and wellness that clearly
explains important concepts and provides an optimal foundation from
which to approach health interventions." Patrick R. Steffen, PhD,
BCB, Brigham Young University
The book begins with a public health/epidemiologic examination of
the situation, with a systematic view of the problem based on
classic (infectious disease) epidemiologic principles applied to
this behavioral health issue. This application is expanded to take
into account the fact that unlike most epidemics in our species'
history, a unique factor that must be accounted for in any public
health analysis is that the host (opioid-dependent/misusing
patient) is generally not under sufficiently strong motivation to
avoid the disease. The introduction concludes with a survey of
recent containment approaches, categorized epidemiologically by
target (agent, vector, host.) The remainder of the book is
organized according to this framework, addressing agent,
vector/transmission and host, respectively. Sections Three and Four
comprise the major focus of the book, and are dedicated primarily
to practical education for primary care providers in preventing
opioid use disorder, and overcoming it after the fact.
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