New pain management resources to enhance your daily practice , Springer Publishing Company Meredith Watt, M.S.W.
	Read more about three resources that could enhance your approach to care. Each book provides information on working with patients in pain. From cognitive therapy with the chronic pain patient to the elderly struggling with persistent pain, these resources are a great way to improve your knowledge of pain assessment and treatment.

Persistent Pain in Older Adults: An Interdisciplinary Guide for Treatment
Debra K. Weiner, MD, Kela Herr, PhD, RN, and Thomas E. Rudy, PhD, Editors

This book provides a collection of chapters written by experts in the fields of pain management and care for the elderly. Persistent pain is a struggle that many older adults face. Learning how to address these struggles can be of critical importance to a clinician’s daily practice. The book begins with an overview of the uniqueness of pain in the elderly. It stresses the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to assessment and treatment planning and also explores psychosocial issues in the elderly pain patient. The authors also present different options for the management of pain including pharmacologic approaches, alternative medicine, and exercise. This book is recommended for practitioners working with the elderly patient struggling with pain.

Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness
Kenneth Sharoff, PhD

Many pain patients struggle with the need for better coping skills. Patients faced with pain on a daily basis strive to find ways to overcome or manage their pain and its impact on their lives. “Coping Skills Therapy” gives you as the provider a broad range of approaches for working with the pain patient; from diagnosis through long term care. Chapters focus on skills for patients in the crisis phase, patients dealing with accommodating to their illness and changes it has brought to their lives, and skills for management and making meaning out of their illness. This book is recommended for practitioners working with the chronic pain patient and those dealing with terminal illness.

Cognitive Therapy with Chronic Pain Patients
Carrie Winterowd, Aaron T. Beck, and Daniel Gruener

Cognitive therapy has long been used as an intervention in behavioral health. Cognitive therapy provides an active and time-limited approach to care, and through its foundation patients can learn to identify and modify their own thoughts. In this book, Winterowd, Beck and Gruener apply theories of cognitive therapy to work with chronic pain patients. The book begins with an overview of pain, the assessment of pain, and treatment considerations. Behavioral interventions and cognitive interventions are presented as well as issues related to family, friends and lifestyle. The book concludes with a look at how to end the relationship with a patient who has completed therapy.