Treating Chronic Pain through Behavioral Medicine presented by Daniel Rockers, PhD and Amir Ramezani, PhD

Treating Chronic Pain through Behavioral Medicine

presented by Daniel Rockers, PhD and Amir Ramezani, PhD. 

As a result of the presentation participants will:

1. List two pain theories which serve as a heuristic for patient understanding of their condition

2. Compare the biopsychosocial model with traditional biomedical model of pain in order to

   state 3 differences

3. List four types of pain and one medication used to target each

Audience: Clinicians who have patients with chronic pain, functional somatic, anxiety, depressive conditions will benefit from this training session. The presentation, given at a “beginning” level, is appropriate for physicians, licensed psychologists, LCSWs, MFTs, as well as unlicensed mental health professional interns. 

The course has been approved for APA Sponsor Approval System  2 hours of CE credit. CPA is co-sponsoring with SVPA. The California Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.  Note: APA CE rules require that we only give credit to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.