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This will cover either psychological or psychiatric diagnosesc to some extent.
Patients should receive a thorough history and examination to rule out serious pathology that may be responsible for their CLBP. [What exactly is meant by "serious pathology," and what aspects of pain suffering does it consider?]
Robert J. Gatchel, Ph.D., ABPP1,** and Kathryn H. Rollings, Ph.D., Candidate, "Evidence informed management of chronic low back pain with cognitive behavioral therapy (HHS Public Access Author manuscript)", Spine J. 2008 Jan-Feb; 8(1): 40–44.: 2008 (Evidence informed management of chronic low back pain with cognitive behavioral therapy.html)
...we discuss several areas that might be particularly relevant for assessment of patients with chronic pain, namely, substance abuse, fear, malingering, and cognitive factors (i.e., attention, memory, concentration).
Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 189
A large international study confirms that whereas medically unexplained somatic symptoms are very common, full somatization disorder is quite rare....Somatization as a process, meaning the somatic experience of distress, is ubiquitous. It accounts for the majority of symptoms presented to primary care physicians....[SH....
Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 408
Generally, a referral for [psychiatric/psychological] evaluation may be indicated when disability greatly exceeds what would be expected, based on physical findings alone; when the patient makes excessive demands on the health care system; when the patient persists in seeking medical tests and treatment that are not ind....
Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 193
Because reliability estimates are influenced by sample size, it follows that the measurement error of questionnaire data from one person should be expected to be much greater than that found in reports based on group data. [They suggest that the questionnaire be used repeatedly with the client for higher reliability. T....
Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 194
Williams (1998) suggested that psychologists should use three major areas in which discrepancies occur to construct a malingering index for traumatic brain injury. Some of these concepts are also relevant for patients with chronic pain. The first is the relationship of injury severity to cognitive functioning. The se....
Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 204
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