Honoring Invisible Messengers
The Case for Integrating Pain Management into Clinical Practice
VIRTURAL WORKSHOP
This event will not be recorded.
Content from this LIVE WEBINAR will not be available at a later date. You will need to attend this event on the scheduled date and at the scheduled time.
Presenter: Lee Westgate, MSW, MBA, LCSW-C, LCSW
Sign-In: 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm CT
Workshop: 5:00 pm - 8:45 pm CT
Cost: Member - $50.00/ Non-member - $80.00
3.0 CEUs
Workshop Description:
According to a seminal report prepared by the Institute of Medicine, the annual national costs associated with chronic pain are estimated to be $560 to $635 billion. Providers attempting to respond to this growing clinical crisis face difficulties in providing effective interventions for complex pain despite its prevalence and the parallel growth of the opioid epidemic. There is a profound deficit of empirically based best practices for pain management, and much of this deficit is driven by stigma and archaic conceptualizations of pain. Furthermore, pain as a phenomenon is fundamentally medicalized and subject to myriad provider-based biases, both of which are significant drivers of ineffective and disparate care. There is also a lack of attention to how individuals assign value and meaning to their lived experience of being in pain. This training aims to ethically frame the need to listen to individuals reporting pain by highlighting the human costs resulting from ineffective treatment, the connection between chronic pain and early complex trauma, and the available research-informed strategies to engage with patient populations that have been failed by medical institutions.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Conceptualize the scope, depth, and complexity of clinical pain management with attention to population-related care disparities.
- Recognize the behavioral health dimensions of pain management to include the multi-faceted manifestations of pain that present within the context of clinical care.
- Employ best practices for rapport-building with the patient population, and tactics for supporting the interdisciplinary team with maintaining patients with pain management concerns in care.
Relevant NASW Ethical Codes:
- 1.01 Commitment to Clients
- 1.04 Competence
- 1.16 Referral for Services
- 2.03 Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- 2.05 Consultation
6.04 Social and Political Action
Please note that NASW-Iowa Chapter charges a $25.00 administrative fee for all cancellations.
Presenter: Lee Westgate, MSW, MBA, LCSW-C, LCSW (he/ him/ his) is a transgender advocate with extensive professional experience in social work policy, practice, research, and education. He has held numerous organizational leadership roles and has served as an educational consultant to a variety of associations and organizational clientele. He has served as a medical social worker in the fields of oncology, critical care, as well as in integrated behavioral health settings. Mr. Westgate has participated in a CSWE-sponsored National Trauma Task Force workgroup that focused on the intersection of ethics and trauma-informed practice and he was awarded an immersion fellowship through Boston University to study addiction and behavioral health. He has participated in AIDS Education and Training Center on behalf of the University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD since 2017 and participated in the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Workgroup on COVID and HIV. Mr. Westgate continues to serve as a Clinical Instructor at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work and his scholarship includes integrated behavioral health, clinical work with LGBTQIA+ populations, working with individuals with chronic and life-threatening illness, healthcare policy, and health equity. He has been published in The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, The Social Worker, The Journal of Employee Assistance, Infusion Magazine, Provider Magazine, and Social Work Today.
The opinions, findings, recommendations, or conclusions expressed by the presenting author or speaker do not necessarily reflect the views of NASW-Iowa Chapter.
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