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PAIN MANAGEMENT CLUSTER
Pain Management: History
and Legal Issues
This course is the introduction to a series of
pain management courses. The focus of this
course is an overview of treatment of pain
management, as well as an in-depth study of
the ethical, professional, and legal implications
of the pain management health care professional.
Historical aspects of pain management,
current techniques of pain clinics, ethical bases
of applied treatment, and basic questions of
interview and assessment are reviewed. The
impact of malpractice via case law, techniques
of responding in the context of deposition,
and an examination of the health care professional
as expert witness are ethical issues that
are addressed. (PSY 893, 3 cr)
Pain Management: Specialty Concerns
This course explores different approaches to
chronic and acute pain management. There
is an emphasis on pain control with children,
geriatrics, and other special populations and
circumstances, including hospice care, cancer
patients, Aids patients, and sleep and weight
problems. (PSY 896, 3 cr)
Pain Management: Team Management
of Common Pain Syndromes
This course focuses on the area of pain management
as studied from the treatment aspect
of commonly occurring pain syndromes
and specialty approaches to pain management
through team management. Course
content will include pharmacotherapeutic
management of chronic pain, the multidisciplinary
pain approach, migraines, myofascial
pain, lower backpain, hypnosis, biofeedback,
40 acupuncture, various medical professions,
involvement with pain, and physical medicine
as it relates to pain management, according to
the American Academy of Pain Management.
(PSY 894, 3 cr)
Pain Management:
Treatment Aspects
This course is intended to prepare the student
to understand the psychologist’s role in the
multidisciplinary field of pain management. The
psychosocial aspects of pain and pain management
are closely examined. (PSY 895, 3 cr)
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