The New Tools for Treating Chronic Pain: A Body Mind Spirit Approach for Relieving Suffering

Teacher

Dr. Stephen Grinstead

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

4:00-6:00 PM Eastern Time

3:00-5:00 PM Central Time

2:00-4:00 PM Mountain Time

1:00-3:00 PM Pacific Time

12:00-2:00 PM Alaska Time

11:00 AM-1:00 PM Hawaii Time

COURSE OVERVIEW

The landscape of chronic pain treatment is changing rapidly as we wean ourselves off the traditional biomedical approach that emphasizes harmful opioid-based pain management approaches. In this presentation, you will learn the unique challenges and obstacles that face patients suffering from chronic pain and coexisting disorders, including medication misuse abuse, or addiction. By understanding these unique challenges, you will discover that it requires an integrated concurrent team approach to achieve successful treatment outcomes.

Join chronic pain management international expert, Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead, for this dynamic interactive webinar. You will obtain the proper understanding, skills, and treatment techniques you need to address the neurobiological psychological/emotional, social, and Spiritual aspects of chronic pain when potentially addictive medications are no longer a viable option. You will learn about Dr. Grinstead’s evidence-based Addiction-Free Pain Management® Manualized Treatment System.

By attending you will discover how common coexisting disorders and family dynamics can sabotage treatment – and what to do about it. You will learn how to develop a synergistic treatment plan incorporating the mind, body, and spirit for healing as well as strategies to empower clients to be proactive in their healing process. This course also draws from the 2018 American Society of Addiction Medicine Handbook: Pain and Addiction – including Dr. Grinstead’s Chapter: Self-directed Non-Pharmacological Management of Chronic Pain. By the end of the presentation, you will have new confidence in helping people and their families suffering from chronic pain and coexisting disorders including addiction.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Investigate two or more reasons why the biomedical approach alone may be ineffective for the low outcome subset of chronic pain clients with coexisting disorders.
Differentiate between the physiological and psychological/emotional pain symptoms and have appropriate management strategies for both types.
Develop a treatment plan that helps clients let go of suffering and adequately addresses the psychological/emotional symptoms of their pain.
Analyze the needs of clients as they explore the correlation of increased stress and worsening levels of pain and how to develop appropriate relaxation response skills to reduce their levels of stress and the perception of their pain.

Target Audience: Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, & LMFT

Content Level: Beginner to Intermediate

2 CE Hour Credits Approved By: NAADAC, ASWB, & NBCC

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Course Features

Lectures 2
Quizzes 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Students 1
Certificate Yes
Assessments Yes

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Dr. Stephen Grinstead

Dr. Grinstead has a Bachelors Degree in Behavioral Science, a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Doctorate in Addictive Disorders (Dr. AD). He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, (LMFT) a past California Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC-II), and a current Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist (ACRPS). He served on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz Extension Alcohol and Drug Studies Program and also taught at Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley Extension and Stanford University Medical School and served on the faculty of University of Utah’s School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies as well as serving as an Adjunct Professor at Alliant University teaching Masters Level and Psy.D. Students the Treating the Addicted Family System course for the Marriage and Family Therapy track for five years.
From 2015 to 2018, Dr. Grinstead was the Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of a Residential and Intensive Outpatient Triple Diagnosis Chronic Pain Management Program in Camarillo California. He is author of the book Thank You Adversity For Yet Another Test: A Body Mind Spirit Approach for Relieving Chronic Pain Suffering, as well as author of several other pain management books including Freedom from Suffering: A Journey of Hope, Managing Pain, Coexisting Disorders, and the Addiction-Free Pain Management® Recovery Guide. Dr. Grinstead is also an internationally recognized expert in preventing relapse related to addiction and chronic pain disorders and is the developer of the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. He has been working with chronic pain management, substance use disorders, eating addiction and coexisting mental and personality disorders since 1984.