Paramedic Rachel’s Success with Work-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: An Ascellus Study
Rachel is a paramedic in her mid-30s who experienced significant emotional distress due to her workload, which grew exponentially during...
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Pharmacy Assistant Jessica’s Success with Work-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: An Ascellus Study
Pharmacy Assistant Jessica contracted COVID-19 while on the job and experienced lingering mental and physical effects. She felt elevated anxiety...
Nurse Elizabeth’s Success with Work-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: An Ascellus Study
Elizabeth, a nurse in her early 40s and mother of three, was referred to Ascellus for a Comprehensive Psychological Stress...
Addressing Mental Health Factors to Improve Workers’ Outcomes: An Ascellus COVID-19 Study published in JOEM
Ascellus conducted a study from May 2020 to August 2021 to assess the benefits of work-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (W-CBT)...
The Rise of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Its Creator
The recent passing of Dr. Aaron T. Beck in November 2021 at the age of 100 has thrust his many...
How to Treat a Dual Diagnosis
It is not uncommon for workers who sustain an injury to develop psychosocial issues during recovery, which can intensify as...
Ascellus Delivers: A Transformative Treatment Approach
Ascellus Delivers: A Transformative Treatment Approach The leader in biopsychosocial treatment in the workers’ compensation industry, Ascellus specializes in...
How Physically Injured Workers Can Benefit From Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
While injured workers who have suffered a serious physical injury need time to recuperate, time spent recovering physically may elicit...
The Acoustics of Assertiveness: Learn the Broken Record Technique
Ascellus recently finished a webinar series, Rebound from COVID: 6 Influence Skills, which consisted of six 30-minute sessions with our...
The Science Behind Identification of Psychosocial Risk Factors
We know that early intervention is critical to preventing delayed recoveries. One of the challenges has been to identify injured...
The Medicine Cabinet in Your Brain
Emotions are powerful. They not only make a difference in how we feel and behave but they directly impact our...
The Benefits of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (pronounced ACT) is a cognitive-behavioral therapy that emerged from research and theory on experiential avoidance—the idea...
The Post Opioid Era: A Call to Medical Psychologists
In April 2019, Dr. Cal Robinson, Ascellus’s Clinical Advisor, published an article in the Journal of Clinical Research in Pain...
Stakeholders Increasingly Look to Psychosocial Risk Factors in WC Claims
Fear is a scary thing, especially among injured workers. Those who say they are afraid/scared/worried/anxious at the beginning of a...
Employers Can Take Action to Reduce Pain, Improve Productivity
Chronic pain is more prevalent than many people think. The latest government figures say more than 15 percent of currently...
Mind-Body Connection Key to Preventing Delayed Recoveries
Your body is more than just a vehicle for carrying your head around. Modern research shows the mind and body...
Technology, Telehealth Services Mean Faster CBT and Quicker RTWs
Technology has truly revolutionized the way medical care is delivered to injured workers. We can now reach them in a...
##!%$# Curse Much? Could Just Be Your Brain in Pain
What do you usually do when you stub your toe hard or hit your thumb with a hammer instead of...
Alternatives to Long-Term Opioids Needed Following Surgery, Research Shows
The longer a post-surgical patient is on opioids, the greater the chances of misuse. New research out of Harvard shows...
Early CBT Intervention Changes Lives, Saves Money for WC Payers
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) uses a holistic approach to help people with delayed recoveries. It is short-term, goal-oriented, and has...
Consider Trauma-Related Psychosocial Risks at Halloween Celebrations
It’s Halloween – a day that can be a great opportunity for team building and comradery at an organization. Many...
Woe is Me! A Day in the Life of a Tapering Opioid User
Woe is Me! A Day in the Life of a Tapering Opioid User Sometimes things have to get worse before...
Time to Face the Music: The PTSD Survival Guide
Time to Face the Music: The PTSD Survival Guide After experiencing a traumatic event, a person often uses avoidance behavior...
Focus, Focus, Focus: The dangers of multitasking and how CBT can help
Question: Can humans actually multitask? Answer: It’s very rare that an individual can actually perform two or more tasks at...
Add this to CBT! Emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET) technique
An interesting case decided in New York recently spotlighted fibromyalgia, and whether a traumatic event could have triggered a recurrence...
Riding the Mood Rollercoaster: A day in the life of a tapering opioid user
Tapering off long term opioid use is difficult for nearly everyone. There can be a variety of symptoms, none of...
Mind-Body Treatments Touted as Superior to Usual Care for Chronic Low Back Pain
Mind-Body Treatments Touted as Superior to Usual Care for Chronic Low Back Pain Engaging the minds as well as the bodies...
CBT Can Prevent Post-Surgical Chronic Pain
CBT Can Prevent Post-Surgical Chronic Pain Injured workers who’ve undergone surgery run the risk of developing chronic pain. Researchers say...
CBT and Smartphones: Study Shows Power of CBT on Brain Changes
CBT and Smartphones: Study Shows Power of CBT on Brain Changes There is a little known addiction that could...
Test Your Mental Health Knowledge
Test Your Mental Health Knowledge Are you in a mental state? Confused? Good news; we are here to help! Workers’...
The Science of Mind-Body Therapies
The Science of Mind-Body Therapies The latest research reveals what may be the most successful treatment for depression: a...
Study Indicates Prescribers Ignore Risk Factors for Delayed Recoveries
Study Indicates Prescribers Ignore Risk Factors for Delayed Recoveries “In 2015, more than a third of the U.S. adult...
CBT Techniques Can Change the Brain to Move Past Trauma and Chronic Pain
CBT Techniques Can Change the Brain to Move Past Trauma and Chronic Pain Whoever said ‘you can’t teach an...
The Best Opioid is No Opioid
The Best Opioid is No Opioid There’s a new opioid law on the books that you may not even...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Gains Cred with Top Pain Docs
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Gains Cred with Top Pain Docs “Integrating CBT in chronic pain management treatment plans is...
See Mirror Therapy on TV
See Mirror Therapy on TV Imagine this television medical show plot:Woman goes to the ER with a bad itch...
Deep Breathing Can Reduce Fear and Lessen Chronic Pain
Deep Breathing Can Reduce Fear and Lessen Chronic Pain The more you fear pain, the more you feel pain....
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works Often patients (and providers) don’t understand and sometimes don’t believe that learning and practicing a...
Technology like telemedicine and telepsychology help get injured workers back to function better and faster
Technology like telemedicine and telepsychology help get injured workers back to function better and faster Providing the proper treatment...
