Pain Management: “Training the Brain” to Manage Pain
Rhonna Nelson, LMSW, ACSW, CAADC, P.C.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th, 9:00am-12:00pm
Birmingham Maple Clinic 
3 CEUs available in pain management, VIRTUAL (ZOOM)

Goals/objectives:

• • Identify two or more factors influencing chronic pain
  • Challenging biases of thinking pain is “all in your head”
  • List two or more components regarding the relationship between PTSD and chronic pain
  • Determine one way understanding the placebo effect may have on facilitating “Training the Brain” to Manage Pain
  • Identify three interventions to “train the brain” to manage chronic pain
  • Anti-saneism practice within the mental healthcare system: 3) anti-saneist application of interventions / anti-saneist clinical behaviors

Agenda:

• • 9:00 am: Some of the factors that contribute to our perception of chronic pain
  • 9:30 am: Identifying unconscious biases, as well as conscious biases, that
    may interfere with pain management
  • 10:30 am: Address the components of PTSD and chronic pain, and how they may exacerbate each other
  • 11:00 am: Identifying ways to reframe perceptions of chronic pain by an
    increased understanding of some of the role the brain plays
  • 11:30 am: Exploring the role that trauma-therapy can have in healing the brain and pain management

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