Participants will be given the opportunity to interact with presenters to learn how these methods and models might be adapted to their own practice setting. Discuss how to develop a psychological evaluation procedure for preimplantation screening. Discuss how to categorize patient suitability for implantation therapy. Describe how to provide patients with psychotherapy to improve implantation outcome success. However, there has not been a concomitant increase in the number of behavioral professionals trained to perform evaluations for such procedures.
Many tools are available for psychological evaluation of complex pain patients.
This course will present in detail the clinical pain problems, the indications for psychological referral, and the various tools available for psychological evaluation and their use. The objective of these often-neglected areas of pain medicine will be to augment the standard database used by the pain clinician in treatment planning. Discuss how to provide practical applications on initiating discussions about CAM use with patients, including making appropriate referrals. This course is divided into three sessions. In this session, major CAM techniques will be defined and described, and selected practices will be presented in video demonstrations.