Integrating Psychological Science into Chronic Pain Management: Emerging Approaches and Insights

Dear Colleagues,

Chronic pain is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and is often associated with significant physical, psychological, and social consequences. While chronic pain has long been recognized as having biopsychosocial components, our understanding of how psychological factors contribute to its onset and maintenance has continued to evolve in recent years. In line with this advancement, new psychosocial interventions for chronic pain are beginning to emerge and appear to yield promising results, not only for reducing emotional distress but also pain severity and intensity among sufferers of this condition.

This Special Issue will highlight advances in our understanding of the role of psychological factors in the onset and development of chronic pain, underscoring recent innovations in psychosocial interventions.

We encourage the submission of original research and review articles on the following topics:

• Psychosocial risk factors for the development of chronic pain;
• The role of psychosocial factors in perpetuating chronic pain symptoms;
• Advances in the psychosocial assessment of chronic pain;
• Recent innovations in psychosocial interventions for chronic pain.

Dr. Scott G. Ravyts
Dr. Margot De Kooning
Guest Editors

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