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- From Health-Care: Psychopathology-and-Clinical-Psychiatry
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- Due on Aug. 12, 2008
- Asked on Aug. 24, 2008 at 11:34:50AM
Q:Treatment Options for Clinical Pain
In this assignment, you will exercise critical thinking skills. Remember to suspend judgment
while inquiring into multiple aspects of the issue. Answering the questions requires
application of problem solving skills and methods, and your recommendations must be
derived from your own evaluative decisions.
Resources: Ch. 12 of Health Psychology
Due Date: Day 7 [Individual forum]
Consider the following three cases of clinical pain:
o Case 1: Various types of pain from a below-the-knee amputation resulting from
diabetic neuropathy
o Case 2: Acute pain from an abdominal hysterectomy
o Case 3: Chronic headaches (non-migraine)
Use information from Ch. 12 of the text and other sources to help you comment on
whether surgical, pharmaceutical, behavioral, and cognitive treatment methods would or
would not be considered appropriate for each of the three clinical pain cases. Discuss
and defend your answers.
Recommend an appropriate pain treatment plan employing one or more specific
methods for each individual case. Describe each plan and provide support for your
recommendations.
Discuss the benefits of having all four (surgical, pharmaceutical, behavioral, and
cognitive) pain treatment methods available to chronic pain patients in a traditional
hospital.
Compile your answers in a 1,200- to 1,400-word paper in APA format. Use a minimum of
two sources besides the text.
Post your paper as a Microsoft® Word attachment.
