Project Outreach

                                                                                         Service · Integrity · Compassion

	Problems:
	Evidence of significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning		Pain becoming a major focus of ones life, often with excessive use of mediation and concurrent relational problems
	Inability to work or attend school as result of pain		Pain leading to increasing inactivity and social isolation
	Frequent use of the health care system		Onset of additional psychological problems and significant reduction in physical endurance leading to fatigue and greater pain

	Goals:
	Reduce subjective experience and increase tolerance of pain		Reduce frequency of health care utilization
	Achieve manageable pain to return to a more productive healthier living		Develop greater control over daily living
	Objectives:
	Patient will complete a thorough medical and psychiatric examination		Patient will increase awareness of mind-body connections
	Patient will identify how pain has made an impact on daily activities		Patient will develop various relaxation techniques, exercise routines, and other meditation to help ease pain
	Patient will follow through on recommendations made by treating physicians and therapeutic interventions developed with therapy		Patient will inquire into appropriateness of pain management programs and follow through on recommendations
	Patient will identify triggers for pain		Patient will identify dysfunctional attitudes about pain that only reinforces the problems
	Patient will verbalize and implement stress-coping steps