Posted on November 13, 2009 by adiemusfree
I posted about the reciprocal effect of emotions on goal content and today I want to look a little further into this.
A profound statement in the paper by Hamilton, Karoly & Kitzman is this: ‘If emotional well-being influences the selection and the valuation of a particular goal, then it is likely that the relationship between [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by adiemusfree
The other day someone said to me that managing chronic pain was just the same as managing something like diabetes, hypertension, asthma or any other chronic disease. It irked me at the time and I couldn’t put my finger on just what it was that bothered me, but after a couple of days thinking about [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2009 by adiemusfree
So, if self regulation is about exerting control over thoughts, feelings, actions and physiology, how does it work?
When I skipped through some Google references last night (o font of all knowledge!) I found a good number of sites referring to self regulation and children – but not nearly as many relating to adults, or the [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2009 by adiemusfree
Changes take energy – that’s nothing new, I know, but perhaps something as clinicians we might forget when we work with people who have chronic pain. I was thinking about this as I’ve had a week away from regular blogging so I could focus on writing and some self care. Things are busy and [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2009 by adiemusfree
After briefly looking at hypnosis yesterday, I found this lovely case study written by Leora Kuttner of an 11 year old girl with problems going off to sleep, including tummy pain and anxiety.
The girl had been through CBT, and introduced to the idea that she had a ‘worry bug’, and that the way to rid [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2009 by adiemusfree
There are plenty of people who look at me as if I’m stepping right into woowoo when I start to talk about hypnosis for managing chronic pain. I’m happy to say that science has provided some good evidence that not only does hypnosis have a neurophysiological basis, but it also has some good effect.
What [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by adiemusfree
After writing about teams and models and the distinct possibility of talking past each other, I had a very quick search for a paper on teamwork and models this morning, and came across this one by a group of Canadian researchers. It is, like many of these pieces of research into the messy and [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by adiemusfree
As time passes, therapists can form their own way of working with people – sometimes we get away with this by calling our treatment models ‘eclectic’. This can be a euphemism for ‘I’ll use whatever I think fits’, or even ‘I like doing this, so this is what I’ll do’!
While this may not be too [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by adiemusfree
Editor’s Selection IconI am not a philosopher. Neither am I very conversant in the arguments around consciousness. But working in pain management means the mind-body debate is something I run into now and again. Is pain all about the body? Is pain all about the mind? Or is it both? Which influences the other?
This debate [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by adiemusfree
It’s not the pain, it’s the judgement of the pain that makes it so distressing – or at least, that’s how the cognitive behavioural model of pain views our experience of pain. As a result, most pain management therapies working to help people manage when their pain can’t be removed involves reviewing how people [...]
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