Psychiatric, Social and Cultural Aspects of Pain

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures

Exam - 100%.

Learning Outcomes

To understand pain as subjective experience with important affective, cognitive, and behavioral as well as sensory components.
To understand what is known and not known about the influences of development, environment, and genetic on pain components.
To recognize fundamental individual differences in affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to pain.
To recognize that verbal reports provide unique access to subjective experiences but have limitations.
To understand the basic neurochemical and neurologic mechanisms through which emotion, cognition, and behavior influence each other.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS OF CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROMES
depression and pain
BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS OF CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROMES
Psychosocial and cultural factors in expectations and in access and adherence to treatment.

Head Lecturer(s)

Nuno Gonçalo Gomes Fernandes Madeira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

-Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Pain Core Curriculum for Professional Education in Pain, edited by J.
Edmond Charlton, IASP Press, Seattle, © 2005.
-Culture and Pain; Pain Volume X, No. 5 December 2002.