The Great Need for Pain Education in Psychology and Mental Health Training

Clinical Psychiatry Advisor features Beth Darnall and the work of the entire Pain Psychology Task Force of the American Academy of Pain Medicine in the August 2016 article “The Importance of Pain Psychology Curricula in Training and Education.” (Author: Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC).

Read about the national needs assessment that was conducted in almost 2,000 individuals across 6 key stakeholder groups in the U.S., and published in Pain Medicine earlier this year. Learn why a major solution to the pain treatment crisis includes better integration of pain education into mental health education at all levels of training.

Read the Psychiatry Advisor article. 

Read the original Pain Medicine research article (“Pain Psychology: A Global Needs Assessment and National Call to Action”, 2016).