Understanding and treating chronic pain, with Rachel V. Aaron, PhD

Understanding and treating chronic pain, with Rachel V. Aaron, PhD

Each year, more than 50 million U.S. adults experience chronic pain. Increasingly, researchers and patients are finding that behavioral treatments and therapies can be an important part of pain treatment. Pain psychologist Rachel Aaron, PhD, discusses what effective treatments are available, the link between chronic pain and mental health, how our emotions and life experiences affect pain, and what promising pain treatments may be on the horizon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Understanding mass violence (SOP44)

Understanding mass violence (SOP44)

Are terrorists flooding into our country? Are we facing an epidemic of mass shootings and violence? Whatever your thoughts are on gun control or terrorism, psychologists who study human behavior, spec...

16 Joulu 201615min

How politics became so uncivilized (SOP43)

How politics became so uncivilized (SOP43)

Political elections ought to bring out the good in people – aren’t they a chance to talk about plans and hopes for the future? But lately they have come to resemble brawls on a playground. When did it...

31 Loka 201617min

How to talk to teen boys about dating and sex (SOP42)

How to talk to teen boys about dating and sex (SOP42)

Chances are parents know they need to tell their boys something about sex but aren’t sure where to start. As a result, television, friends and the internet often fill in the gaps, leading to confusion...

14 Loka 201618min

Born bashful? Learning how to manage shyness (SOP41)

Born bashful? Learning how to manage shyness (SOP41)

Have you ever felt awkward, worried or tense during social encounters, especially with people you don’t know? We’ve probably all felt shy at one time or another, but for some people the shyness is so ...

16 Syys 201615min

Kids and psychologists team up to learn from one another (SOP40)

Kids and psychologists team up to learn from one another (SOP40)

In order to understand how children think and behave, psychologists need to study them. Most of the time, these experiments take place in university labs or sometime in schools, but one program is tak...

22 Heinä 201613min

Improving health care with psychology (SOP39)

Improving health care with psychology (SOP39)

Where we live, work or socialize have an impact on our health. Poverty greatly increases the risk of heart disease, depression and stress, as do racism and ethnic discrimination, according to numerous...

8 Heinä 20167min

How masculinity can hurt mental health (SOP38)

How masculinity can hurt mental health (SOP38)

The availability and quality of health care is often substandard when it comes to serving low-income boys and men in ethnic/minority communities. As a result, they have some of the worst health outcom...

10 Kesä 201616min

Recognizing a narcissist (SOP37)

Recognizing a narcissist (SOP37)

Narcissism is not just something attributed to people who post selfies and list all their favorite meals on Facebook. It’s a diagnosable personality disorder that causes people to have a delusional se...

13 Touko 201614min

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