Testimonials
“This book holds within its pages a valuable step-by-step approach to help the clinician who works with the challenging and ubiquitous problem of chronic pain. Carlson has written an important, clinically sound and insightful manual that comprehesively integrates an understanding of chronic pain from a bio-psychosocial perspective. The field of pain management has been calling for efforts to tailor treatment to fit the unique individual needs of people suffering from chronic pain and Carlson has stepped up to the plate to present a valuable resource of handouts and structured therapeutic sessions for the clinician.”
- Michael J. Lewandowski, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nevada and author of The Chronic Pain Care Workbook
“Patients and treatment providers have been paralyzed in the face of co-occurring mental illness and chronic pain, losing opportunities for improving lives and placing unnecessary burdens on health care systems. The call for effective treatments for these co-morbid conditions has been answered by Dr. Mark Carlson, who has deftly drawn from the best evidence-based treatments to create a skills-based approach grounded in therapeutic factors. His simple yet clinically powerful model takes patients from understanding their strengths, difficulties and barriers to behavioral activation and change. This book will be an invaluable resource.”
- Dr. Lane Pederson, author of The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual and DBT Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings
“This valuable and systematic manual will certainly inspire medical and mental health services to establish new chronic pain management programs. It is great to see therapeutic approaches such as CBT, DBT, ACT and MI being utilized to form what may possibly be the most effective approach for assisting in pain relief, improving general well-being, and restoring hope. It should be on the shelf of every practitioner working with patients who suffer from chronic pain.”
- Hanna Nowicki, Managing Director, TATRA Training Services, Australia
“Although the role of psychological factors in the management of chronic pain is universally recognized, programs of treatment for the dimension of human suffering are surprisingly inconsistent. In this compact and practical manual Carlson provides one-stop shopping for readers seeking a program that draws on the best of CBT, integrating assessment and change strategies that address both biological and psychological aspects of pain management. Offering a session-by-session psycho-educational structure that is coherent, comprehensive and clinically relevant, CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being presents a trove of useful exercises for helping patients balance acceptance and control , and in doing so restore a measure of quality to their lives.”
- Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D., Editor of Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved
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