Opioid Epidemic and Chronic Pain Within the United States
Words: 944 Pages: 3 3570Turk and colleagues (2008) emphasized that within an interdisciplinary approach, the cognitive-behavioral perspective is generally used for educating patients on understanding and treating chronic pain, as CBT currently has the greatest empirical support [49]. Based on this empirical support, CBT has become one of the most commonly used treatments for chronic pain [52]. The treatment of pain can often prove to be challenging due to the subjective nature of pain. The only way we can understand another person's experience is […]