Mind-body Techniques | Pain #4.15
Learning Objectives
- Mind-body techniques for paediatric chronic pain
- Cultural and developmental considerations
- A trauma-informed, multimodal, and action-focused process
- Helpful resources
Nez Elik, Ph.D., C.Psych, Founder of Dr. Nez Psychological Services
Dr. Elik is a school, clinical, and health psychologist, who has been in the process of transitioning to a full time private practice in Ancaster/Hamilton, Ontario, and completing her supervision duties at McMaster Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Chronic Pain Program. She completed her MA and PhD at the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program at OISE/University of Toronto. Her main research is on an online ADHD intervention for teachers (as a part of Dr. Penny Corkum’s team at Dalhousie University). She has been also active in various smaller research projects, including on chronic pain, through supervision of Master’s and Honour’s theses since 2007.
Resources Mentioned in Session
- Mind-Body Therapies for Opioid-Treated Pain – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- Efficacy of a transdiagnostic emotion-focused exposure treatment for chronic pain patients with comorbid anxiety and depression: a randomized controlled trial
- A Mind-Body Approach to a Paediatric Pain Management
- Topical Review: Resilience Resources and Mechanisms in Pediatric Chronic Pain
- A Mindfulness Program Adapted for Adolescents With Chronic Pain
- Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and problem-solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing
- Internet-Delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescents with Chronic Pain and Their Parents: A Nonrandomized Pilot Trial
- Evaluation of an Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescents With Chronic Pain and Their Parents: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial
- ACTsmart: Guided Smartphone-Delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain-A Pilot Trial
- Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and problem-solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing
- Digital Mental Health Tools
- Digital Mental Health Interventions for Supporting the Canadian Population in a Pandemic
- Digital Interventions to Support Population Mental Health during COVID-19: A Knowledge Synthesis
- 5 Mobile Apps for Paediatric Physical & Mental Health
- Calm
- Headspace
- iCouch
- Mental Mint
- Forgetting ourselves: epistemic costs and ethical concerns in mindfulness exercises
- Pain Science and Sensibility Episode 32: Are There Ethical Concerns With Mindfulness Approaches?
- Kids Meditation – Square Breathing (Focus & Calm) – Video
- Pediatric Traumatic Stress
- Validation skills
- My Anxiety Plan- free modules for parents and children.
- Explain pain in less than 5 minutes
- DBT tools: Distress Tolerance
- MBSR
- Mindfulness and COVID-19:
- What is mindfulnesss
- Fight Flight Freeze – Anxiety Explained for Teens
- Autonomic Nervous System
- The Neuroscience of Learning
- 2-Minute Neuroscience: Vagnus Nerve
- 2-Minute Neuroscience: Medulla Oblongata
Next Session
October 18, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Parental Strategies for managing pain at home
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