
| Chronic Pain |
| Anton Counseling & Health Psychology |
| Chronic Pain |
| Hypnotic Enhancement of Cognitive–Behavioral Interventions for Pain An Analogue Treatment Study Recent meta–analyses have shown that adding hypnosis enhances the effectiveness of cognitive–behavioral psychotherapy. |
| Clinical Applications of Hypnosis for Brief and Efficient Pain Management Psychotherapy As part of the patient's initial work-up, hypnotizability assessment can provide information for developing individualized pain management and coping strategies based on the patient's assessed capacity to experience hypnotic analgesia and related hypnotic phenomena. |
| Explaining High Rates of Depression in Chronic Pain: A Diathesis Stress Framework The diathesis-stress framework also suggests the need to identify for each patient the uniquely challenging or stressful aspects of his or her chronic pain experience (e.g. patient's beliefs about and cognitive responses to his or her pain, perceived ability to control pain, degree of affective distress and tolerance for such affect..... |

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