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Digital Seminar

Bi-Directional Associations of Chronic Pain: Exploring How Trauma May Impact Rehab and Functional Outcomes


Speakers:
Benjamin M. Keizer, PhD, ABPP |  John Jones, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours 12 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 25, 2024
Product Code:
POS065479
Media Type:
Digital Seminar

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Description

PTSD and chronic pain are both often misrepresented as lifelong sentences. But now you can get the support and skills you need to confidently work with clients who are experiencing these conditions. In this course, you will receive a blueprint for effective treatment with this complex population. This course will cover functional and targeted assessments along with culturally-informed conceptualization skills. Additionally, the course will also explain strategies to fundamentally alter the ways clients’ brains and bodies interpret and respond to perceived threats and pain. Finally, the course will end with powerful behavioral treatments and adjunctive approaches for managing, reducing, or even alleviating pain.

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Benjamin M. Keizer, PhD, ABPP's Profile

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Benjamin M. Keizer, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist with extensive post-doctoral training in clinical health psychology at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium. He serves as the head of Health and Human Performance Psychology at the Center for the Intrepid (CFI), Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas where he provides care for military service members who have sustained serious injuries (e.g., amputation, limb-salvage, multi-trauma, major surgery). In this capacity he serves as both a provider and program director for the Functional Restoration Program for chronic pain and a provider and program manager of the Special Operations Performance and Recovery (SPaR) program. He has been awarded an Army Systems of Health Innovation Grant as a result of excellence in creating novel interdisciplinary programs, and his leadership resulted in a 2018 and 2022 Best of the Best Specialty Care Clinic award from the military and Army Health Systems.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Benjamin Keizer has employment relationships with the San Antonio Military Medical Center and Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Benjamin Keizer has no relevant non-financial relationships.


John Jones, PhD's Profile

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John Jones, PhD, is a fellowship trained clinical health psychologist with the 59th Medical Operations Squadron at Joint Based San Antonio-Lackland, TX. He currently serves as health psychology faculty for the clinical psychology residency at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, San Antonio, TX. He has also been certified in Motivational Interviewing by the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). As a MINT trainer he has a passion for empowering medical professionals across multiple disciplines – physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychology, and physician practices – to seamlessly integrate motivational interviewing techniques into their daily practice.

Through dynamic workshops, personalized coaching, and evidence-based strategies, he equips providers with the tools to foster genuine connections with patients.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: John Jones Jr. has an employment relationship with Rochester College. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: John Jones Jr. is a member of the Society of Air Force Psychologists, the Society for Military Psychology, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.


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Objectives

  1. Assess pain and related comorbid mental health symptoms to inform treatment interventions.
  2. Utilize intentional questions and appointment framing to assist client with goal-setting.
  3. Demonstrate a values clarification intervention with clients with chronic pain and trauma.
  4. Analyze and differentiate between the presentations of trauma, PTSD, and pain.
  5. Formulate treatment plan integrating emerging treatments and complimentary approaches.

Outline

All Roads Lead to the Nervous System
  • Pain as a threat system – What does that mean?
  • The trajectory of acute and chronic pain
  • Principles of pain: nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic
  • Pain intensity versus pain distress
  • How pain can have hidden benefits
Pain is Bi-Directional: A Reciprocal Relationship Between Physician and Mental Health
  • The effect of pain on clients’ sense of self
  • Helping patients identify and challenge pain-related myths
  • Assessment of pain and related comorbidities
  • When pain itself is a reminder of the traumatic event/injury
  • Recognize pain catastrophizing behaviors
  • The role of central sensitization and its impact on therapeutic outcomes
  • Identify and shift vicious cycles and maladaptive coping strategies
  • Implementing behavior changes that carryover to healthy daily activities/routines
The Chronic Pain Toolkit: Behavioral Treatments and Adjunctive Approaches
  • Pain neuroscience education
  • Targeted pain management strategies
  • Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Brief Therapy techniques to optimize client engagement and outcomes
  • Mindfulness and yoga for pain reduction
  • Effective collaboration with medical providers
  • Establish therapeutic alliance when the client has chronic pain, and the therapist does not
  • Calm the nervous system with relaxation strategies and breathing techniques

Target Audience

  • Physical Therapists
  • Physical Therapist Assistants
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapist Assistants
  • Licensed Massage Therapists
  • Chiropractors
  • Athletic Trainers
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners

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