Star Behavioral Health Program Tier III: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain (Milwaukie)
The Returning Veterans Project is proud to partner with the Oregon National Guard to bring the Star Behavioral Health Program free of charge to providers in the state of Oregon.
Location: Clackamas Community College - Harmony Community Campus
7738 SE Harmony Rd
Milwaukie, OR 97222
Continuing Education: 14 Clinical CE Credits (Applied at NASW)
Cost: Free. Open to all health service providers and community members.
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers who have completed a Tier II training.
What You Will Learn:
Tier III trainings offer behavioral health professionals specific clinical skills that focus on evidence-based treatment to address specific behavioral health issues facing service members. Tier III trainings are two-day workshops offered in-person and online. Participants must attend both days in their entirety. To attend Tier III trainings, you must be accepted into the registry and have completed Tier I and Tier II. You may, however, register for the training after completing a Tier II before being accepted into the registry in order to reserve your spot.
Learning Objectives
- Formulate treatment considerations specific to a military population when utilizing CBT-CP
- Evaluate the contribution of opioid medication to a patient’s experience of chronic pain
- Apply the biopsychosocial model to the process of clinical case conceptualization
- Demonstrate a psychological chronic pain-focused clinical interview including biological, physical, and social domains
- Use subjective assessment measures to evaluate the patient’s experience of pain
- Develop treatment goals for pain management using the SMART model
- Apply targeted relaxation practice as pain coping strategy
- Develop behavioral interventions to target under- and/or over-activity patterns that exacerbate chronic pain
- Modify pleasurable activities given realistic pain limitations to increase behavioral activation
- Apply cognitive strategies to modify unhelpful pain-related cognitions
- Design a plan to address common challenges in implementing CBT-CP with patients
CE Faculty
Kelly Chrestman, Ph.d. is a Senior Military Behavioral Health Psychologist at the Center for Deployment Psychology. She provides training, support and consultation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and in the Assessment and Treatment of PTSD. Before coming to CDP, she trained at the National Center for PTSD in Boston, and at the University of Pennsylvania with Dr. Edna Foa. She is a Subject Matter Expert in Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD and has trained numerous students and mental health professionals across the world in techniques for treating PTSD and other anxiety disorders. She also spent several years working closely with Native American Tribes where she focused on adapting evidence -based practice to better meet the needs of traditional Native communities.
Registration for this training occurs directly through the Star Behavioral Health Program.
Contact: RVP Staff .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
503-954-2259
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