Pain Management: Mindfulness & Cognitive Training
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Overview
Learn how to manage pain and become more relaxed by using psychological approaches to pain management. This online treatment regime is founded on the modern scientific evidence that the brain is fundamental in the production of pain. In a face-to-face manner, this course guides you through powerful self-help techniques ranging from mindfulness to cognitive restructuring.
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Course Highlights
- 5 hrs of videos on 5 professionally structured treatment sessions, broken down into easily digestible mini-sessions.
- Learn powerful tools for managing your pain, such as mindfulness, how to alter your emotions, recreating your pain experience and changing your self-talk.
- Guidance from a specialist pain psychologist, in the comfort of your own home!
- A 94 page, downloadable E-Book full of extra information!
Course Overview
In this course, you will discover how and why we feel pain, as well as highly effective techniques to help you accept and manage pain. You’ll learn how to perform mindfulness meditations, guided imagery, hypnosis and other beneficial mental exercises that utilise the brain’s ability to change itself for the better. In this comprehensive course you will find all the information required to truly manage pain and feel free to live a fulfilling life!
Instructor Bio
Instructor Dr. Patrick Partington is an expert in Pain Psychology and perfectly experienced to help you manage pain. He is the Founder of Training Great Minds, which aims to help people use psychological skills to improve their lives. He’s also worked as a Univerisity Senior Lecturer, and has more than two decades of experience in cognitive therapy and hypnotherapy!
Course Curriculum
Introduction
- Introduction
- Changing Your Mind About Pain – E-Book Resource
- Pain Stories
Understanding Persistent Pain: Traditional Theories
- The Ghost in the Machine
- Descartes’ Error: Mind-Body Dualism
- Lessons to Learn
- Talking of Pain – Terminology
Understanding Persistent Pain: Modern Theories (1)
- Modern Theories of Pain - Enter the Brain
- Pain in the Brain – Neuroscience and Cognition of Pain
- Cognitive Fusion – Thoughts and Emotions
- Neuroplasticity – The Plastic Brain
Understanding Persistent Pain: Modern Theories (2)
- New Theory of Pain – Mechanical Brains and Cognitive Storms
- The Homunculus – A Little Man in Your Brain
- Nociception is Bad Company – Movement and Learned Pain
- Close the Gate! – Gate Control Theory of Pain
- Pain Stories, Revisited
- Summary of Understanding Persistent Pain
Mindfulness and Acceptance (1)
- Introduction to Mindfulness and Acceptance
- How Can Mindfulness Help Pain?
- Modes of Mind – Doing Mode
- Modes of Mind – Being Mode
- Mini Meditation Exercise Intro: Three Minute Breathing Space
- Time to Meditate: Three Minute Breathing Space
Mindfulness and Acceptance (2)
- Meditation Exercise Intro: Body Scan
- Time to Meditate: Body Scan
- Cognitive Diffusion Introduction
- Cognitive Diffusion Techniques
- Summary of Mindfulness and Acceptance
Cue-Controlled Emotion: Instant Relaxation
- Introduction to Cue-Controlled Emotion
- Safe-Place Imagery – Cue Controlled Emotions
- Classical Conditioning, Revisited
- Mental Imagery
- Imagery: A Case Study
- Creating a Safe Place in Your Mind – Example
- Creating YOUR Safe Place
- Time to Meditate: 7 Steps to Cue-Controlled Relaxation
- Regularly Recharge Your Relaxation
- Hypnosis – Cue Controlled Emotion
- Summary of Cue-Controlled Emotion
The Formulation: Eliciting the Pain Script
- Introduction to The Formulation
- The Formulation: Eliciting the Pain Script
- Your Brain Accommodates Painful Memories
- Past Pain Predicts the Future
- The Aspects of Painful Situations
- The Case Formulation Procedure – Structuring Therapy
- Time to Meditate: Formulating Your Own Unique Experience
- Summary of The Formulation
Thinking Errors: Seeing the World as You Are (1)
- Introduction to Thinking Errors
- Thinking Errors: Seeing the World as You Are
- Seeing the World Through Pain Tinted Glasses
- Separate and Accept Your Thoughts
- Identify the Thinking Errors
Thinking Errors: Seeing the World as You Are (2)
- Jumping to Conclusions
- Mental Filter
- Minimising
- Magnification/Catastrophising
- Black and White Thinking
- Overgeneralising
- Personalising
- Label Your Thinking Errors
- Summary of Thinking Errors
Cognitive Restructuring: Seeing the World as It Is
- Introduction to Cognitive Restructuring
- Cognitive Restructuring: Seeing the World As It Is
- Pain Words
- Reframing Health Messages
- Exercise: Cognitive Restructuring
- Key Points to Remember
- Summary of Cognitive Restructuring
The Reformulation: Managing the Memory of Pain
- Introduction to Reformulation
- Pain is a Memory, and Memory is a Tool for Prediction
- The Brain that Google: Searching Memories
- Mental Time Travel
- Creating Positive Solutions
- Dave’s Reformulation: Changing Experience
- The 5 Steps of Reformulation: Task
- How to Connect Imagery to Memory
- The “Peak-End” Effect and “Duration Neglect”
- Summary of The Reformulation
Neuroplasticity: Your Mind can Reshape Your Brain
- Introduction to Neuroplasticity
- Memory Consolidation Theory
- Mental Time Travel and Memory Reconsolidation
- Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: Changing Your Brain with Your Mind
- Turning Thoughts into Beliefs: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Imagery Rescripting Exercise: Secondary Aspect Scenario
- A Dissociated Version
- Summary of Neuroplasticity
Imagery Rescripting and Metaphor
- Introduction to Imagery Rescripting and Metaphor
- Imagery Rescripting: Using the Power of Mental Pictures
- Imagery Rescripting: Research Example
- Motor Imagery and Pain
- Motor Imagery and Pain: Research Examples
- Imagery of Primary Situations
- Imagery of Dave’s Primary Situation
- Primary Imagery Rescripting Exercise
- Summary of Imagery Rescripting and Metaphor
Mastering Metaphor: How to Reshape Your Pain
- Introduction to Mastering Metaphor
- Metaphor: Benefits and Problems
- Medical Metaphors
- Metaphoric Images of Pain
- Metaphor Rescripting Exercise
- Metaphor Rescripting Protocol
- Developing Mental Pain Images
- Summary of Mastering Metaphor
Conclusion
- Course Summary and Concluding Comments
Quiz
- Course Quiz
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Who is this course for?
- Anyone who suffers from acute or chronic pain, such as low back pain, joint pain, fibromyalgia, sciatica, headaches and more.
- People looking to try mindfulness and cognitive alternatives to pain relief medication.
- People (including professionals) who would like to help clients, family or friends develop a long-term solution to their pain.
Requirements
This course has no prerequisites
Career path
This course provides the fundamentals for those looking to start a career in counselling or alternative medicines dealing with pain management.
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