Cognitive Behavioural Skills to Treat Back Pain: The Back Skills Training (BeST) Programme

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Cognitive Behavioural Skills to Treat Back Pain: The Back Skills Training (BeST) Programme
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  2. Prerequisites & Facts
  3. Cost, Certificate & Degree
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What is the course about?

Cognitive Behavioural Skills to Treat Back Pain: The Back Skills Training (BeST) Programme
The course Cognitive Behavioural Skills to Treat Back Pain: The Back Skills Training (BeST) Programme is an online class provided by University of Oxford through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn an evidence-based, cognitive behavioural approach to manage low back pain with this CPD course for health professionals.

Course description
  • Understand a cognitive behavioural approach to manage ongoing low back pain
  • 6 weeks
  • The Back Skills Training (BeST) programme focuses on ‘undoing’ beliefs about low back pain, and provides skills to become more active, despite pain. The programme was developed by experts in psychology, physiotherapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, and people with long-standing low back pain. According to a rigorous clinical trial, the BeST programme produces long term reductions in people’s pain and disability and is a very cost effective treatment.
  • On this course you will explore the BeST programme, examining the causes of persistent low back pain, and the cognitive behavioural approach.
  • The nature and cause of persistent low back pain.
  • The cognitive behavioural approach.
  • Exercise and activity for low back pain.
  • How thoughts and feelings can influence pain.
  • Pain management skills.
  • This course is approved by the British Psychological Society for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development for healthcare professionals. It is designed for healthcare professionals with a role or interest in managing patients with low back pain (including nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and psychological therapists).
  • It will also be useful for students training to become healthcare professionals. The Certificate of Achievement for this course would be useful for providing evidence of CPD.
  • University of Oxford
  • Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It has been at the forefront of understanding the world – and shaping it – for centuries.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Cognitive Behavioural Skills to Treat Back Pain: The Back Skills Training (BeST) Programme

Course Topic

Personal Development, Personal Transformation

University, College, Institution

University of Oxford

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Cognitive Behavioural Skills to Treat Back Pain: The Back Skills Training (BeST) Programme

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Oxford you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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School: University of Oxford
Topic: Healthcare & Medicine, Psychology & Mental Health

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