Phone or Cyber Coaching can be Effective in Chronic Pain Management
Written By: Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead, LMFT, ACRPS, CADC-II Date: June 14th, 2010. Topic: Member Blogs.Many people living with chronic pain with coexisting psychological disorders including addiction, are unwilling or unable to go into a structured treatment program. Sometimes this is due to not having quality programs in their immediate area. Other times it can be due to the financial commitment some of these inpatient or residential programs require. While for others it is not wanting to be stigmatized or pathologized (sick, bad etc.). This is where phone or cyber coaching can fit in.
Addiction-Free Pain Management® Coaching Program
The purpose of APM™ Relapse Prevention Coaching is to guide people who are living with chronic pain and may be struggling with pain medication issues to become active participants in their healing process. They will learn a strategic set of new pain management protocols that will help them to recover their health and regain their independence, thereby improving the quality of their life. Most importantly, participants will discover a light at the end of the long dark tunnel their life of pain has become.
With the assistance and the support of a Certified Coach, clients will experience the seven clinical processes that help them to quickly identify and manage high-risk situations that cause relapse. They will receive expert guidance in setting powerful recovery goals and implementing specific actions plans to facilitate their continued recovery.
The foundation of our Relapse Prevention Coaching Program is the evidence-based work and 40 years experience of Terence T. Gorski’s Developmental Model of Recovery. As an Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist and Director of Training and Consultation for the CENAPS® Corporation, my expertise in denial, relapse prevention and co-existing disorders underlie his biopsychosocial, multidisciplinary approach utilizing an ongoing continuum of care that incorporates strategic, cognitive-behavioral skill building exercises in conjunction with powerful solution-focused and strength-based coaching methodologies.
If people knew they could participate from anywhere using their phone and/or a computer, and that they could become active participants in their healing by participating in our coaching program, we feel confident that their feelings of helplessness and hopelessness would disappear.
Check out our Coaching Questionnaire which is the first step of deciding if you or someone you know is ready for APM or Relapse Prevention Coaching, or call Ellen at 916-575-9961f or a confidential interview.
If you want more information on relapse prevention for chronic pain management please check out my article Relpase Prevention and Chronic Pain Management, that you can download for free on our Ariticles page.
If you’d like to receive training for helping people with chronic pain and coexisting disorders, including addiction, I’m very excited to announce we are presenting my Addiction-Free Pain Management® Certification Training in Sacramento on August 5-7, 2010. To learn more about this and my other upcoming trainings you can check out our Calendar page.
You can learn about the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System at our website www.addiction-free.com. If you are working with people undergoing chronic pain management and want to learn how to develop a plan for managing their chronic pain and coexisting psychological disorders; including depression, addiction and other coexisting psychological disorders effectively; please consider my book Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders: Using the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. To purchase this book please Click Here.
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June 15th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Cyber coaching is a fantastic idea. Pain management is definitely a complex problem that requires an entire arsenal of solutions. There is absolutely nothing worse than living in constant pain. Unfortunately most of the pain medications currently on the market are effective but are also highly addictive and often create more problems than they solve. Among the most common of these problems is many users will eventually end up in a drug detoxification program or worse yet, live a life addicted to pain killers. I think phone and cyber coaching is a viable support system for chronic pain sufferers. Until we find more advanced medications and more holistic or permanent ways of dealing with chronic pain, the individual must take a proactive role in seeking out treatments that work. Having another human being who genuinely understands the level of pain an individual is feeling can bring a certain amount of relief simply by being available to the sufferer. Thank you for making us aware that their is help out there for chronic pain suffers beyond addictive medications.