Denial Management Counseling for Effective Chronic Pain Management

Back in the mid 1990s I was fortunate to work with Terence T. Gorski on a project on ways to help people with addictive disorders overcome their treatment resistance and denial. At first we called this project Motivational Recovery Counseling but we soon realized that Denial Management Counseling (DMC) was a more appropriate and descriptive title.

As Mr. Gorski started working on the first edition of the DMC Workbook and Professional Guide we also started developing skill training workshops on this model.  We used the feedback from training participants to improve the publications as well as field testing this model in many different settings.  At the time I was the clinical supervisor for a court-referred drug diversion program in San Jose California and Mr. Gorski allowed me to implement this DMC model in that program with great benefit.

Since then I have modified and used this model with my chronic pain patients and also taught it to thousands of treatment professionals throughout the United States and Canada. I modified DMC to be used with people living with chronic pain and coexisting addictive disorders and along with Terence Gorski and Dr. Jennifer Messier we published the Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management Workbook in 2006.

To learn more about DMC and pain management please check out my article From Denial to Effective Chronic Pain Management that you can download for free on our Article page.

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You can learn more about the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System at our website www.addiction-free.com. If you are working with people in chronic pain who have any resistance and denial and want to learn how to develop a plan for helping them identify and manage their denial please go to our Publications page and check out my book the Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management Workbook. To purchase this book please Click Here.

To listen to a radio interview I did conducted by Mary Woods for her program One Hour at a Time please Click Here to go to this interview.

To read the latest issue of Chronic Pain Solutions Newsletter please Click here. If you want to sign up for the newsletter, please Click here and input your name and email address. You will then recieve an autoresponse email that you need to reply to in order to finalize enrollment.
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