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According to a seminal report prepared by the Institute of Medicine, the annual national costs associated with chronic pain are estimated to be $560 to $635 billion. Providers attempting to respond to this growing clinical crisis face difficulties in providing effective interventions for complex pain despite its prevalence and the parallel growth of the opioid epidemic. There is a profound deficit of empirically based best practices for pain management, and much of this deficit is driven by stigma and archaic conceptualizations of pain. Furthermore, pain as a phenomenon is fundamentally medicalized and subject to myriad provider-based biases, both of which are significant drivers of ineffective and disparate care. There is also a lack of attention to how individuals assign value and meaning to their lived experience of being in pain. This training aims to ethically frame the need to listen to individuals reporting pain by highlighting the human costs resulting from ineffective treatment, the connection between chronic pain and early complex trauma, and the available research-informed strategies to engage with patient populations that have been failed by medical institutions.  
 
Learning Objectives: 
By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:

1. Conceptualize the scope, depth, and complexity of clinical pain management with attention to population-related care disparities.
2. Recognize the behavioral health dimensions of pain management to include the multi-faceted manifestations of pain that present within the context of clinical care.
3. Employ best practices for rapport-building with the patient population, and tactics for supporting the interdisciplinary team with maintaining patients with pain management concerns in care.

 
Relevant NASW Ethical Codes:

• 1.01 Commitment to Clients
• 1.04 Competence
• 1.16 Referral for Services
• 2.03 Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• 2.05 Consultation

6.04 Social and Political Action 
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