About this manual
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for more than three months and is a significant health problem, affecting one in every five people. This treatment manual is designed to provide practical guidance for health workers who work with people who have intellectual disabilities and chronic pain. Containing evidence-based cognitive behavioural principles, it provides carers and health professionals with a range of tools for teaching service users how to manage their chronic pain more effectively. This manual gives clear, practical instructions with each treatment module, including: key learning objectives; rationale for the technique in relation to pain management; the time commitment involved; practical guidance on how to conduct the session; tips for making the intervention more effective; a case example; handouts and a DVD.
Benefits of this manual
This manual will help you teach service users to manage their own pain. The skills in each session are built upon in other sessions so that service users become more independent in using the skills whenever they need to. The treatment manual also provides a detailed description of chronic pain and the ways in which health professionals working in pain management now think about chronic pain. In addition, the manual provides a comprehensive description of psychological approaches to pain management and points the readers towards other useful resources. Professionals within the social care sector are required to undertake Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Those who use this resource will be able to gain CPD points.
Vital information for: health workers, direct care staff, nurses, care workers, social care workers, therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists and family members.
Additional DVDs are available to give to your clients at an extra cost of £15 each, allowing them to practice what they have learnt at home. These are only available to those who have purchased the manual.
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While all of the sessions are related to each other by their commonpurpose of assisting people to manage their pain more effectively, eachof the treatment modules is designed to be used as a stand-alonesession. Each module is designed to last around 30 minutes. You canshorten this or extend it according to the ability, attentiveness andengagement of the service user.
This programme is suitable for use with adults with a mild, moderateor high level of intellectual disability. It may also suit some otherservice users, such as adolescents or those with a lower level ofcognitive ability.
Dr. Sharon McManus and Dr. Brian McGuire are clinical psychologistswith considerable experience in conducting pain-related research and indelivering pain management interventions to people with an intellectualdisability. Dr McManus works as a clinician in a service for peoplewith an intellectual disability in Galway, Ireland and Dr McGuire isbased at the School of Psychology and Centre for Pain Research atNational University of Ireland, Galway.