Product Type: On-demand Learning

Children’s Pain: A practical guide for the clinic, with Dr Joshua W. Pate

This course is focussed on pain in childhood. Across three lectures, you will discover pragmatic strategies to grow in your clinical assessment, communication, and planning. You will hear case vignettes that deeply reflect the latest evidence growing rapidly in the paediatric world. This is an opportunity to expand your thinking and skillsets and deepen your knowledge underpinning everyday clinical practice. So dive into this content and explore what learning about pain science looks like for children and their families, now and into the future. This course includes a hard copy of the slip-cased 5 book set Zoe and Zak’s Pain Hacks Book Series 1-5 (value AUD 70.00).

Who is this lecture series for?

1. Clinicians who typically work with adults challenged by pain but want to up-skill to work with children.
2. Paediatric clinicians who want to up-skill to work in the field of pain.

The competencies expected to be achieved in each of the lectures:

Lecture 1: Assessing and understanding pain in children 

• Appreciate the burden of persisting pain in children.
• Identify and use appropriate tools to assess biopsychosocial pain constructs in children of different ages and developmental stages.
• Recognise common and uncommon red flags for serious pathology in children with pain.
• Consider creative approaches to advocating for a child’s voice.
• Access a range of common outcome measures.

Lecture 2: Communicating about pain in children

• Demonstrate using the Concept of Pain Inventory (COPI) to conduct a targeted learning assessment.
• Plan how to start and maintain conversations about pain with children and their parents.
• Evaluate the benefits and challenges of using pain science education books, handouts, and online resources for children and their parents.

Lecture 3: The practicalities of pain in children

• Consider guidelines for using exercise, movement, sleep, diet, and psychological interventions for children with pain.
• Design and implement individualised and goal-oriented pain management plans for children and their parents.
• Illustrate how to use behavioural experiments, magic tricks, and games to enhance pain education and promote active pain strategies.
• Monitor and adjust the pain action plans based on the child’s progress and feedback.
• Consider the future of paediatric pain care.

This course is an opportunity to expand skills and contribute to the well-being of children and their families, offering a deeper understanding of pain science in paediatric practice. Dive into this transformative learning experience and elevate your clinical approach to paediatric pain care.

Included in this course is a hard copy of the slip-cased 5 book set Zoe and Zak’s Pain Hacks Book Series 1-5 (value AUD 70.00).

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