Psychology Update — How Psychologists Can Help Treat Chronic Pain

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TITLE How Psychologists Can Help Treat Chronic Pain   DESCRIPTION This is an extremely important article regarding chronic pain!  The article points out that pain-killing medications have serious problems and side effects and do not always take care of the problem.  As it turns out, pain treatment programs can offer long term relief working as… Read more »

Psychology Update — THE PAIN BRAIN — ARTICLES ABOUT PAIN

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This week’s Psychology Update along with the Psychology Website of the Week and Psychology Resource Ted Talk of the Week focuses on the mysterious distressing problem of pain and pain management.   These articles can be used in conjunction with the chapters on Nervous System, Positive and Health Psychology, and Psychotherapy. One of the articles… Read more »