Helping Teens with Chronic Pain with Dr. Rachel Zoffness

Making sure today’s teens and adolescents receive appropriate treatment for chronic pain may help them avoid becoming another statistic in the opioid addiction epidemic in the future. Pain psychologist, Dr. Rachel Zoffness, author of The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens discusses strategies that teens with chronic pain can use to turn down the volume on their pain, break the pain cycle, and get their lives back.

About Our Guest

Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a clinical psychologist, medical consultant, educator, and the author of The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens, a guide to pain management for youth, parents and providers. She specializes in chronic pain, medical illness and injury. She’s a clinical professor at the UCSF School of Medicine where she teaches pain education to medical residents. She also sits on the Steering Committee of the American Association of Pain Psychology and founded their Pediatric Division.