9730L • Culture and Pain Management

Table of Contents

9730L • Culture and Pain Management

How to Receive Credit

Course Overview

Audience

Accreditations & Approvals

Designations of Credit

Individual State Behavioral Health Approvals

Course Objective

Learning Objectives

Faculty

Faculty Disclosure

Division Planners

Division Planners Disclosure

Director of Development and Academic Affairs

Director Disclosure Statement

About the Sponsor

Disclosure Statement

Implicit Bias in Health Care

1. INTRODUCTION

2. WEBINAR

3. SLIDES

Works Cited

9730L • Culture and Pain Management

Joy Siegel, EdD, MBA

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This live event takes place Wednesday, July 1, 6 pm-7 pm EDT (3 pm-4 pm PDT).

Today's healthcare professionals are expected to provide patient-centered care in environments with diverse populations, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. This course will provide the learner with the opportunity to gain insight and understanding of how a patient's cultural background and identity can shape their health trajectory, pain management, disease management, and quality of life. Learners will be given specific examples of different cultural responses to pain relative to health-related situations and will complete the course with recognition that to deliver best care practices there must be a level of insight for the impact culture has on individual choice relative to health, as well as public health.

9730L • Culture and Pain Management

Education Category. Webinars

Release Date. 05/20/2026

Expiration Date. 07/15/2026

How to Receive Credit

To complete this course for continuing education credit please go to http://www.netce.com/course/3494 in your browser.

For assistance with receiving continuing education credit, please contact us at help@netce.com.

Course Overview

This live event takes place Wednesday, July 1, 6 pm-7 pm EDT (3 pm-4 pm PDT).

Today's healthcare professionals are expected to provide patient-centered care in environments with diverse populations, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. This course will provide the learner with the opportunity to gain insight and understanding of how a patient's cultural background and identity can shape their health trajectory, pain management, disease management, and quality of life. Learners will be given specific examples of different cultural responses to pain relative to health-related situations and will complete the course with recognition that to deliver best care practices there must be a level of insight for the impact culture has on individual choice relative to health, as well as public health.

Audience

This live webinar is designed for mental and behavioral health professionals who would benefit from enhanced knowledge and skills related to the role of culture in the experience and treatment of pain.

Accreditations & Approvals

NetCE has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6361. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NetCE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. As a Jointly Accredited Organization, NetCE is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. NetCE is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). NetCE complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, NetCE is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0021. This course is considered live online by the New York State Board of Mental Health Counseling. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0033. This course is considered live online, as defined by the New York State Board for Social Work. Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of licensed master social work and licensed clinical social work in New York. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice for an LMSW and LCSW. A licensee who practices beyond the authorized scope of practice could be charged with unprofessional conduct under the Education Law and Regents Rules. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0015. This course is considered live online by the New York State Board of Marriage and Family Therapy. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0240. This course is considered live online by the New York State Board for Psychology.

Designations of Credit

NetCE designates this live event continuing education activity for 1 NBCC clock hour(s). NetCE designates this live event activity for 1 continuing education clock hours. Social workers participating in this intermediate to advanced course will receive 1 Cultural Competency continuing education clock hours. NetCE is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 CEU(s) for this program. NetCE designates this live continuing education activity for 1 credit(s).

Individual State Behavioral Health Approvals

In addition to states that accept ASWB, NetCE is approved as a provider of continuing education by the following state boards: Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners, Provider #0515; Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, CE Broker Provider #50-2405; Illinois Division of Professional Regulation for Social Workers, License #159.001094; Illinois Division of Professional Regulation for Licensed Professional and Clinical Counselors, License #197.000185; Illinois Division of Professional Regulation for Marriage and Family Therapists, License #168.000190;

Course Objective

Pain management is an integral component of healthcare provision, for those living with chronic conditions and pain, as well as patients undergoing surgeries, treatment, and other protocol that may have aspects of pain. The purpose of this course is to provide the information and skills necessary to enable mental and behavioral health professionals to effectively address pain to ensure delivery of best practices, as well as best outcomes.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Identify the impact of pain on well-being and quality of life.

2. Identify variables comprising culture that impact pain management, pain expression, and pain treatment.

3. Recall aspects of culture and the need for healthcare professionals to find acceptance and understanding to deliver optimum care in any modality.

4. Identify aspects of cultural identification that will enhance the ability to deliver patient-centered care in the current environment in any health-related specialty relative to concepts of pain.

Faculty

Joy Siegel, EdD, MBA, provides solution-oriented services to seniors and their families by assessing and addressing social determinants of health. Direct services are designed to improve quality of life and address such issues as crisis intervention, aging in place, identifying financial resources, home health, housing, and social services. Joy has also worked with healthcare providers and most recently consulted with AgeWell Global, leading a grant-funded pilot designed to reduce Medicare readmissions at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale. Joy has participated in research projects that include exploring quality of life and healthcare systems, loneliness, civic reengagement, and cultural competency. Her clients include Nova Southeastern University, Case Western Reserve, Jewish Community Services, and Chrysalis Health. Joy has developed an extensive catalog of continuing education courses for healthcare providers. Her latest courses focus on social determinants of health and partnerships between healthcare systems and community-based organizations. Joy was a fundraising consultant for over 15 years and worked with over 200 nonprofits raising over $300 million. She also created, produced, and hosted Good Work Radio, sponsored by the Office Depot Foundation. Joy has interviewed many celebrated heroes and celebrities and is proud to have interviewed all the U.S. presidents since George H. W. Bush.

Faculty Disclosure

Contributing faculty, Joy Siegel, EdD, MBA, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

Division Planners

Candace Pierce, DNP, RN, CNE, COI

Leyna Antonucci, PT, DPT

Verlyn Evans, EdD, CCC/SLP

Kimberly Byrd, EdD, PMSW

Scott Deatherage, PhD

Heather O'Connell, DHA, RRT-ACCS, CPFT

Division Planners Disclosure

The division planners have disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

Director of Development and Academic Affairs

Sarah Campbell

Director Disclosure Statement

The Director of Development and Academic Affairs has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

About the Sponsor

The purpose of NetCE is to provide challenging curricula to assist healthcare professionals to raise their levels of expertise while fulfilling their continuing education requirements, thereby improving the quality of healthcare.

Our contributing faculty members have taken care to ensure that the information and recommendations are accurate and compatible with the standards generally accepted at the time of publication. The publisher disclaims any liability, loss or damage incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents. Participants are cautioned about the potential risk of using limited knowledge when integrating new techniques into practice.

Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of NetCE not to accept commercial support. Furthermore, commercial interests are prohibited from distributing or providing access to this activity to learners.

Implicit Bias in Health Care

The role of implicit biases on healthcare outcomes has become a concern, as there is some evidence that implicit biases contribute to health disparities, professionals' attitudes toward and interactions with patients, quality of care, diagnoses, and treatment decisions. This may produce differences in help-seeking, diagnoses, and ultimately treatments and interventions. Implicit biases may also unwittingly produce professional behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that reduce patients' trust and comfort with their provider, leading to earlier termination of visits and/or reduced adherence and follow-up. Disadvantaged groups are marginalized in the healthcare system and vulnerable on multiple levels; health professionals' implicit biases can further exacerbate these existing disadvantages.

Interventions or strategies designed to reduce implicit bias may be categorized as change-based or control-based. Change-based interventions focus on reducing or changing cognitive associations underlying implicit biases. These interventions might include challenging stereotypes. Conversely, control-based interventions involve reducing the effects of the implicit bias on the individual's behaviors. These strategies include increasing awareness of biased thoughts and responses. The two types of interventions are not mutually exclusive and may be used synergistically.

1. INTRODUCTION

Today's healthcare professionals are expected to provide patient-centered care in environments with diverse populations, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. This course will provide the learner with the opportunity to gain insight and understanding of how a patient's cultural background and identity can shape their health trajectory, pain management, disease management, and quality of life. Learners will be given specific examples of different cultural responses to pain relative to health-related situations and will complete the course with recognition that to deliver best care practices there must be a level of insight for the impact culture has on individual choice relative to health, as well as public health.

2. WEBINAR

To see this media go to http://www.NetCE.com/activities/ using a browser that supports Adobe Flash.

3. SLIDES

The slides from this webinar are available here.

Works Cited

1. Alotaibi K, Higgins I, Chan S. Culture, religion, language and the assessment and management of children's pain by expatriate nurses in Saudi Arabia: a qualitative study. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing. 2023;28(1).

2. Mohammadzadeh Z, Khakbazan Z, Rad M, Farnam F. Sexual health and intimacy in women with and without dyspareunia. Sexuality & Culture. 2022;26(6):2057-2069.

3. Nguyen LH, Dawson JE, Brooks M, Khan JS, Telusca N. Disparities in pain management. Anesthesiology Clinics. 2023;41(2):471-488.

4. Oliveira PR, Pereira LV, da Silva Carvalho Vila V, Guimarães Lemes A, da Rocha EM, Ferreira AB, Borges MD. Pain management in indigenous and tribal peoples: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 2023;13(8):e068111.

5. Rogger R, Bello C, Romero CS, Urman RD, Luedi MM, Filipovic MG. Cultural framing and the impact on acute pain and pain services. Current Pain and Headache Reports. 2023;27(9):429-436.

6. Slater R, Eccleston C, Williams A, Vincent K, Linde M, Hurley M, Laughey W. Reframing pain: the power of individual and societal factors to enhance pain treatment. Pain Reports. 2024;9(3):e1161.

7. Sonia DD, Rahul KK, Lau GS. Analysis of racial/ethnic differences in pain perception, quality of life, and self-efficacy among chronic neck pain patients. Physiotherapy Quarterly. 2022;30(3):13-18.

8. U.S. Pain Foundation. The Financial and Emotional Cost of Chronic Pain. Available at https://uspainfoundation.org/news/the-financial-and-emotional-cost-of-chronic-pain.