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The BBHI 2 Approach to the Conceptualization of Biospychosocial Pain Disorders

This article first appeared in Practical Pain Management, November/December 2005, volume 5, issue 7, and is reprinted here with permission.

Using the BBHI 2 for the Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Pain

This article first appeared in Practical Pain Management, March 2006, volume 6, issue 2, and is reprinted here with permission.

Glossary Of Terms Related To The Psychological Evaluation Chronic Pain

Excerpted From The BHI 2 Manual. PDF file (see note below).

Bridging the Gap Articles on the BBHI: Physicians discuss the value of the psychological assessment of patients, and the use of the BBHI

Denver Pain Management Forges New Frontiers in Treatment of Chronic Spinal Pain
- This article discribes a clinic using a variety of cutting edge procedures
BBHI™ 2 Assessment Helps Increase the Science of Pain Management

Pain physicians Daniel Bennett, MD, John Brendel, MD, and Burt Ray, MD discuss the science of pain assessment

Information Is Power: Practitioners Present Evidence Based Results to Promote Use of Psychological Assessments With Worker's Compensation Patients

Pain physicians Burt Ray, MD and Patrick Waring, MD discuss the assessment of worker's compensation patients.

General Psychological Assessment

Diagnosis Specific Norms for the 0-10 Pain Scale by Daniel Bruns PsyD, John Mark Disorbio EdD (last update 8/20/2000)

Everybody uses the 0-10 Pain scale, but up to now there have not been any national norms for these. We have presented a series of papers on this, including one on Brain Injured Patients to the recent 2000 American Psychological Association National Convention in Washington DC., as well as this one to the 1999 World Congress on Pain in Vienna.

Practical Matters

National Guidelines for the Psychological Assessment and Treatment of the Injured Person by Daniel Bruns,PsyD and Kevin J. Gaffney, PsyD (last update 4/30/98)

The Interpretation of Double-Normed Tests: A Psychometric "Theory of Relativity" Daniel Bruns PsyD and John Mark Disorbio EdD: (last update 4/19/2004)

A guide to dealing with some special problems that arise when trying to perform psychological assessments of medical patients

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For more information on the BBHI 2, including a sample report, consult the BBHI 2 information on the Pearson Assessments web site.

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