Cognitive‐Behavioral self‐help for chronic pain
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Cognitive behavioral self‐help is a potentially cost‐saving method of delivering evidence‐based treatment to a wide range of chronic pain patients. This article provides a rationale for self‐help and focuses on the effectiveness of self‐help in the management of chronic pain, which typically includes some degree of lay leader or professional facilitation. The evidence for these treatments is generally positive (e.g., reductions in pain and pain‐related disability) across such illnesses as arthritis, back pain, headache, and temporomandibular joint disorders. When implementing self‐help, professionals need to consider individual differences in suitability for using a self‐management treatment and evaluate the outcome in the context of a stepped care approach. This article uses three case examples to illustrate the use of cognitive behavioral self‐help delivered in the care of scleroderma patients. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 62: 1389–1396, 2006.
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A review of self-help for chronic pain found that self-help delivered via group formats, workbooks, books, audiotapes, minimal contact formats, and telephone delivery systems has been effectively used to reduce pain, pain-related disability, depression, and anxiety in arthritis, lower back pain, headache, and temporomandibular joint disorder.
“A review of self-help for chronic pain25 found that self-help delivered via group formats, workbooks, books, audiotapes, minimal contact formats, and telephone delivery systems has been effectively used to reduce pain, pain-related disability, depression, and anxiety in arthritis,26,27 lower backpain,28,29 headache,30–32 and temporomandibular joint disorder.33,34”
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These changes can be maintained over long periods of time.
“and that these changes can be maintained over long periods of time.”
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Other studies have demonstrated similar results for self-help interventions involving other chronic pain populations.
“other studies have demonstrated similar results for self-help interventions involving other chronic pain populations.25”
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Buenaver, McGuire, and Haythornthwaite have posited that an increase in self-efficacy mediates the relationship between self-help interventions and subsequent reductions in pain and disability.
“Furthermore, Buenaver, McGuire, and Haythornthwaite25 have posited this increase in self-efficacy mediates the relationship between self-help interventions and subsequent reductions in pain and disability”
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Little remains known regarding who benefits most from self-help treatments.
“Little remains known regarding who benefits most from self-help treatments,25”
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- Authors
- Buenaver, L. F., McGuire, L., & Haythornthwaite, J. A.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Corresponding author
- Buenaver, Luis F.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006-08-25
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1389-1396
- ISSN
- 0021-9762 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-4679
- OpenAlex
- W2061655948
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Keywords
- chronic pain, self-management, stepped care, pain-related disability, systemic sclerosis, arthritis, back pain, headache, temporomandibular disorders, cost-effectiveness
- MeSH terms
- Breathing Exercises, Chronic Disease, Female, Humans, Male, Pain, Scleroderma, Systemic, Self Care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Pain Management
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