Assessing Chronic Pain: A Multidisciplinary Clinic Handbook (Contributions to Psychology and Medicine)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1461388708 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A classic text about pain management A Customer This is an excellent review of basic pain management assessment and treatment---one that can benefit physicians and psychologists alike. A very well organized presentation.
Assessing Chronic Pain offers a unique approach to the evaluation and assessment of treatment for chronic pain patients. Issues confronting clinicians have been compounded by procedural problems and assessment indecision, but in Assessing Chronic Pain, Drs. Rather than adhering to the criteria of any one discipline's approach to treating chronic pain, whether that of anesthesia, physical therapy, psychiatry or psychology, the editors overview a range of disciplines, and focus on the integration of those approaches to achieve what they term a "handbook", rather than a textbook, for the assessment of chronic pain from a multidisciplinary perspective. Camic and Brown create a framework to guide specialists in all fields in approaching the patient su