Aging with Pain
Evidence-Based Interventions for Pain Reduction and Functional Improvement
- Speaker:
- Afton Hassett, PsyD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 02 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
May 14, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150825
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Your older clients’ chronic pain can profoundly impact every aspect of their lives – from preoccupation with managing discomfort that directs their decisions... to fatigue and irritability created by disrupted sleep... to isolation caused by avoiding activities and feeling unseen.
It’s easy for them – and for you – to feel hopeless that anything can change.
In this sesion, Dr. Afton Hasset - leading expert in the field of resilience and pain and author of Chronic Pain Reset: 30 Days of Activities, Practices and Skills to Help You Thrive – will give you the top tools every therapist needs when working with older adults experiencing chronic pain. You’ll get:
- Strategies for providing psychoeducation to clients that help them shift their relationship to pain
- Intervention
Credit
Speaker
Afton Hassett, PsyD Related seminars and products
Afton L. Hassett, PsyD, is associate professor and director of pain and opioid research in the department of anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. A leading expert in the field of resilience and pain, she has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles on the role of cognitive, affective, and behavioral factors in chronic pain. As a principal investigator conducting interdisciplinary research at the renowned Chronic Pain & Fatigue Research Center at UM, her NIH -funded work involves developing resilience-enhancing activities for individuals with chronic pain, testing novel interventions for chronic pain, and precision medicine studies that focus on a whole person approach to pain treatment. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Hassett is the author of Chronic Pain Reset: 30 Days of Activities, Practices and Skills to Help You Thrive, an innovative pain self-management book for patients and their clinicians.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Afton Hassett has employment relationships with Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Michigan. She is a consultant with Toivoa Prescription Digital Therapeutics, Happify Inc., and Community Health Focus. Dr. Hassett receives grants from Spondylitis Association of Ame, MDHHS and NIH-DHHS-US. She receives royalties from Tonix Pharmaceuticals and The Countryman Press. Dr. Hassett is a stock holder of Circumstance Health, Inc. and Community Health Focus, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Afton is an editorial board member with the Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Clinical Neuropsychiatry, and Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. She is a member of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals, the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the International Association for the Study of Pain.
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Objectives
- Examine the relationship between chronic pain and mental health symptoms in aging adults.
- Evaluate three different pain mechanisms and their impact on treatment planning.
- Utilize at least two interventions targeting chronic pain and related symptoms in psychotherapy.
Outline
Chronic Pain in Aging Adults
- Neuroscience of pain
- The three pain mechanisms
- The impact of chronic overlapping pain conditions
- SPACE symptoms and implications for treatment
- Pain, trauma, and grief
- How bad is it? Disability and life disruption
Therapy Interventions and Clinical Tools
- Provide psychoeducation to shift clients’ relationship to pain
- Overview of the most effective psychotherapeutic approaches
- Tools for catastrophizing and fear avoidance?
- Target social isolation and poor self-efficacy?
- Build resilience and promote greater life satisfaction – what strategies are used to accomplish this?
- Resources to support pain care
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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