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Behavioral Medicine of Pain Certificate Course

Designed for busy clinicians, this flexible online course delivers immediately applicable skills to enhance patient outcomes.

Advance Your Pain Management Practice with Evidence-Based Behavioral Strategies and earn 22.75 CME | APA | ACPE credits.

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Behavioral Medicine of Pain Certificate of Completion

Behavioral Medicine of Pain Certificate Course

Evidence-Based Training to Improve Patient Outcomes in Pain Care
Earn up to 22.75 credits: ACCME, APA, ACPE
A more useful way to think about pain—and treat it

Register by June 5th to receive 20% off with the Promocode: BehavioralMedFlash26

Most of us were trained to look for tissue damage, match it to a symptom, and treat accordingly. That model still shows up every day in the clinic, and it falls short just as often.

Pain doesn’t behave that simply. It’s shaped by biology, yes—but also by mood, sleep, expectations, prior experiences, and the patient’s environment.

If those pieces aren’t part of your framework, you’re missing what’s actually driving outcomes. This course is built to close that gap.

Why this matters in practice

You’ve seen it:

  • Imaging doesn’t match the severity of pain
  • Interventions work…until they don’t
  • The same diagnosis leads to completely different outcomes across patients

That variability isn’t random.

Psychological and social factors aren’t “adjacent” to pain. They’re often the strongest predictors of intensity, function, and response to treatment.

And yet, most clinicians were never trained to assess or treat them in a structured way.

Who this was built for

If you’re managing pain in any capacity, this will be relevant.

  • APPs and primary care clinicians
  • Emergency medicine providers
  • Physical therapists
  • Social workers
  • Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
  • Behavioral health clinicians

You don’t need prior training in psychology. You do need an interest in getting better results with the patients you already see.

Credits

This course is fully accredited:

  • 22.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  • 22.75 American Psychological Association (APA) Credits
  • 22.75 Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician Credits

What’s different about this course?

There’s no shortage of pain education. Most of it just doesn’t translate well into practice.

This one is different for a few reasons:

  • It treats pain as a whole-person problem, not just a biological one
  • It shows you how to integrate behavioral care, even if you’re not a behavioral clinician
  • It focuses on what changes outcomes, not just what’s interesting

The goal isn’t to turn you into a pain psychologist.

It’s to make you more effective in the role you already have.

Join our Multidisciplinary Pain Management Community and save on the Behavioral Medicine of Pain Certificate Course.

Start with the Introductory Video (Free)

A clear, clinically grounded introduction presented by our Course Directors, Traci Speed, MD, PhD, and Liz Courney, PhD.

No cost. No pressure. Just a chance to see if this approach fits how you want to practice.