Pain management, upskilling and understanding

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Upskilling for cognitive functional therapy competence

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Treating children with chronic pain

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1. Jennifer Norton, Joshua Pate, Toby Newton-John, Mark Alcock, Emma France. A qualitative evidence synthesis of the factors that children and their parents perceive to affect therapeutic alliance when receiving health care for chronic pain. PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023461067 Available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42023461067

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Interpersonal relationships

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Five Facts about sex and gender disparities in pain

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1. Boerner, K.E., Harrison, L.E., Battison, E.A.J., Murphy, C.., & Wilson, A.C. (2023). Topical Review: Acute and chronic pain experiences in transgender and gender-diverse youth. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 48, 984-991.
2. LeResche, L. (2011). Defining gender disparities in pain management. Clinical Orthopaedic and Related Research, 469, 1871-1877.
3. Mogil, J.S. (2012). Sex differences in pain and pain inhibition: multiple explanations of a controversial phenomenon. Nature Reviews, 13, 859-866.
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5. Failla, M.D., Beach, P.A., Atalla, S., Dietrich, M.S., Bruehl, S., Cowan, R.L., & Monrow, T.B. (2024). Gender differences in pain threshold, unpleasantness, and descending pain modulatory activation across the adult life span: A cross sectional study. Journal of Pain, 25(4), 1059 - 1069.
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