The prevalence and cost of chronic pain is a major physical and mental health care problem
in the United States today. As a result, there has been a recent explosion of research on …

Postoperative pain is still inadequately relieved despite substantial improvements in the
knowledge of the mechanisms and treatment of pain [1]. Evidence suggests that inadequate …

Chronic pain is a worldwide health problem, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is
regarded as one of the promising interventions. ACT aims to help chronic pain patients to …

Considered the most comprehensive handbook in the field, this rich resource reviews the
biological, psychological, and social factors that affect health, health behavior, and illness …

Perceived control attenuates pain and pain-directed anxiety, possibly because it changes
the emotional appraisal of pain. We examined whether brain areas associated with …

Psychosocial treatments for chronic pain are effective. There is a need, however, to
understand the processes involved in determining how these treatments contribute to …

The role of pain-related fear in the etiology and/or maintenance of superficial dyspareunia is
still unclear. The objective of this experiment was to investigate the effects of pain-related …

Measurement and conceptual issues of pain catastrophizing have been raised in the
literature. The issues of construct redundancy and measurement overlap have received …

The present study sought to examine psychometric properties of the Fear of Pain
Questionnaire (FPQ), a measure of pain-related fear, in a sample of undergraduates …

We often encounter setbacks while pursuing our goals. Success requires that we cope with
these negative outcomes and choose to persist in spite of them. For example, learners may …