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    • Biofeedback – or Things that go ‘beep’!
    • Changing the inner critic – positive statements
    • Checking thoughts during activity
    • Hypnosis and imagery in pain management
    • Motivating people to make changes (i)
    • Motivating people to make changes (ii)
    • Motivating people to make changes (iii)
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    • Motivating people to make changes (v)
    • Relaxation training
    • Task Persistence – the least used coping skill
    • The process of change…
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  • About
  • Coping skills
    • Biofeedback – or Things that go ‘beep’!
    • Changing the inner critic – positive statements
    • Checking thoughts during activity
    • Hypnosis and imagery in pain management
    • Motivating people to make changes (i)
    • Motivating people to make changes (ii)
    • Motivating people to make changes (iii)
    • Motivating people to make changes (iv)
    • Motivating people to make changes (v)
    • Pacing – aka working to quota, activity scheduling, chunking, time contingent activity, timetabling
    • Relaxation training
    • Task Persistence – the least used coping skill
    • The process of change…
  • If you have chronic pain
  • Introduce yourself
  • Occupational therapists only
    • **Rant alert** Don’t call me an OT!
    • A plea for the New Year
    • Clinical reasoning – more than problem solving…
    • Confidence to strut your stuff
    • Occupational therapy theory
    • Supervision
    • When the evidence is ignored

Blogroll

  • Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
  • Chronic Pain Australia
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Worksheets
  • How to cope with pain
  • HumanAntiGravitySuit
  • Making Changes
  • Mindfulness and ACT blog
  • Mindhacks
  • PsyBlog
  • psychcentral
  • Psychology of Pain
  • Salford Occupational Therapy Blog
  • Science-based Medicine

Pain Links

  • Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability
  • Chronic Pain Australia
  • IASP home
  • Lifeisnow
  • Making Changes
  • NZ Pain Society
  • Pain for Philosophers
  • Physiospot
  • Psychology of Pain

Resources

  • Act Mindfully
  • APA Help Centre (American Psychological Association)
  • Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
  • Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy site
  • Dept Orthopaedic Surgery + Musculoskeletal Medicine, Christchurch University of Otago
  • Lifeisnow
  • Making Changes
  • Mindfulness and ACT blog
  • New Zealand Centre for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Physiospot
  • Salford Occupational Therapy Blog
  • Therapyworksheet

Healthskills is a blog for health providers who want to read about research related to self managing chronic pain.
What you’ll find here over time:

* cognitive behavioural therapy
* chronic pain management
* relaxation
* motivation
* values-based therapy
* research
* psychology
* interdisciplinary teams
* using exposure therapy

Head to my 'About', page for more information about who I am and what this blog is based on.

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