Presenter: Professor Louise Sharpe, University of Sydney
Date: Friday 6 May 2016
Time: 4:00-5.30pm AEST
Location: A21.001 (JCU Cairns); 017.101 (JCU Townsville); C1-08 (JCU Singapore)
Chronic pain is one of the few conditions where cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is the first line of evidence-based treatment. While there is strong evidence that CBT is efficacious, effect sizes in recent meta-analyses have been small, indicating that there is considerable room to improve the intervention. Gold-standard multi-disciplinary pain management programs based on CBT typically achieve larger effects, however, as expensive and of the millions of Australians who have chronic pain, most never get access. This talk will focus on ways that we can try to resolve these two problems. Research investigating the effective components of treatment, new developments based on theory and other approaches will be reviewed. The best time and method of administering CBT will also be discussed and a stepped care approach will be described.
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