Identify any additional stressors your client is experiencing that may exacerbate her or his pain experience.

Additional stressors include her inability to get a job in the field that she wanted. She applied for a flight attendant position but, because of the surgery to her leg, was denied the position. She was given a desk job instead. This is a major disappointment to her.

· Based on the reading, identify at least one pain management technique you believe would best reduce the pain experience in this situation.
I believe that she will greatly benefit from mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a pain management technique to reduce the pain she is experiencing. She has a very positive outlook on her future and she is determined to overcome her depression and pain but she is looking for help to manage her pain, with physical and mental or emotional setbacks. MBSR is a form of training for people who experience both mental and physical distress. MBSR programs typically focus on increasing the skill of mindfulness by practices such as meditation and body scan, which is then incorporated in to everyday life to cope (Fjorback, Arendt, Ornbol, Fink, & Walach, 2011).

· Examine the application of your selected pain management technique in relation to the same situation within a different culture. Explain the role of the perception of pain and the impact of culture on perception of pain, identifying and usage trends of applied behavioral science unique to different groups.

I don’t believe that the pain management technique MBSR is widely accepted in many other cultures. I believe it would be found predominantly in first-world countries that are more open and accepting of advanced thinking and techniques for pain management. For instance, I don’t believe you would find a doctor of any kind in most third-world countries who would recommend the use of MBSR to a patient or client looking for alternative treatment for pain. In our country, we emphasize the use of many different tools to manage pain, including counseling and health psychology. In many third-world countries, people don’t have access to counseling and health psychology. They mainly just deal with the pain or perhaps get medication to help with it. Pain is part of life. People who do not have access or knowledge of such things as counseling and health psychology don’t even know there are other ways to deal with pain.

Resource: NCCAM website: https://nccih.nih.gov/

Write a 800 to 1,050-word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its categories of treatments.

Include the following:
Compare and contrast conventional current regulations and oversights that exist in the United States with that of nonconventional medicine.
Define the terms alternative, complementary, and integrative in relation to medicine and clarify how these terms are different.
Describe how conventional medicine plays a role in these three terms.
Examine the philosophy of CAM and how it relates to or is different from conventional Western medicine.
Describe how NCCAM classifies Complementary Health Approaches.
Select one CAM treatment therapy (modality) from among the complementary health approaches and describe it.
Using one medical condition, describe how your chosen therapy can be used as an alternative, a complementary, or an integrative therapy for that specific medical condition.
Include the results of scientific studies that show a clinical benefit from the example selected, if available.

Format: paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Requirement: Must cite at least two references besides NCCAM and your textbook