Pain Assessment & Intervention

The pain assessment and intervention (PEP010) 45 CE credit hour course will provide you with the information you need to understand the underlying problems, be able to perform a reasonable assessment of patients with chronic and acute pain both on and off the ward, recognize when pain is not being appropriately or adequately ameliorated, and to be able to make or recommend interventions consistent with your clinical skills.

$900.00

Instructor

A man presenting in front of a screen showing graphs of resonance frequency assessment data. He wears glasses, a blue shirt, and a name badge.

Dr. Richard Sherman

Course Introduction Video

  • Students learn by (1) watching prerecorded audiovisual lectures and movies, (2) reading text files and standard texts, and (3) interacting with their instructor via e-mail. They answer short essay questions after each lecture rather than taking exams. Previous students have found that this course takes between 45 and 95 hours of work to perform. The course includes an optional, no additional cost section for licensed clinicians who have their own psychophysiological recording / biofeedback equipment during which they can assess two patients then discuss the assessments with the course instructor via Zoom.

  • Specifically, this course intends to:

    Provide you with a basic understanding of the physiology, biochemistry, and psychology underlying pain mechanisms.

    Provide you with sufficient knowledge about how pain mechanisms work to apply the knowledge to their evaluative and therapeutic interventions.

    Give detailed information about several pain syndromes (including headache, RSD, low back pain, and phantom limb pain) so you will be abreast of current knowledge and be aware that similar depths of knowledge exist for most pain syndromes and must be searched out before attempting to evaluate or treat people with the problem.

    Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of evidence supporting the efficacy of self-regulatory interventions for prevention and reduction of various pain problems.

    Provide extensive examples of how to perform evaluations and non-pharmacological interventions.

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  • Sherman, R: Pain Assessment and Intervention from a Psychophysiological Perspective. 2nd ed. Published by the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) in 2012.

  • 45 credit hours.

    The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

  • There is one year to complete the course. Courses not completed by that time are void and must be repurchased if still available.

    No refunds are provided for courses not completed within one year of purchase.

  • Testimonial

    “The course material is covered very clearly through lectures and also provides extra references to expand more deeply into the topic of study.”

    Lorena Casado Román