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It will use techniques such as relaxation training, engaging in pleasant activities, pacing yourself, and changing unhelpful ways of thinking.",[19],"Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain (CBT-CP)",[21,27],{"type":22,"name":23,"description":24,"armGroupLabels":25,"otherNames":26},"BEHAVIORAL","Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET)","Talk therapy that helps people understand and express their feelings, especially emotions linked to past stress or trauma. The goal is to help reduce long-term pain by dealing with hidden emotional struggles that may be affecting the body.",[9],null,{"type":22,"name":28,"description":29,"armGroupLabels":30,"otherNames":26},"Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain (CBT-CP)","Talk therapy that helps people learn how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect their pain. 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Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) is a type of talk therapy that helps people understand and express their emotions, especially those linked to past trauma. This therapy has been shown to help reduce pain and improve mental health.\n\nSo far, multiple studies have tested EAET in both Veterans and civilians, and the results have been promising. EAET has helped people feel less pain, move better, and experience fewer mental health symptoms. Because of these strong results, the U.S. Department of Health \\& Human Services named EAET a Best Practice for managing pain in 2019.\n\nTwo earlier studies at a VA hospital in Los Angeles found that EAET worked even better than another well-known therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain (CBT-CP) for older Veterans. However, those studies were done in tightly controlled settings. Now, researchers want to see if EAET works just as well when it's used in everyday healthcare settings, by different types of doctors and therapists.\n\nThis new project will happen in two parts, but we will only focus on the first part in this entry: In the first part (a 1-year phase), doctors and therapists at up to 7 VA hospitals across the country will be trained to use EAET. They will then try it out with Veterans to see how well it works and how easy it is to use in real clinics. Veterans, doctors, and other staff will be asked for feedback to learn what helps or gets in the way of using EAET.",[93],"Musculoskeletal Pain",[95,96,97,98],"Chronic Pain","Psychotherapy","Musculoskeletal Disease","Mental Health","2026-02-23",{"date":101,"type":102},"2026-02-24","ACTUAL",{"date":104,"type":102},"2026-01-02",{"date":106,"type":87},"2027-07",{"name":5,"class":6},1]