Abstract

The knowledge about chronic pain coping permeates several dimensions that transcend the legal issues related to integral care, because it involves acts in prevention, health promotion of the person with pain, therapy and rehabilitation, as well as the construction of a doing and knowing in the perspective of completeness of the human being. For this, the aim of this paper is to reflect about the integrality and its relations with the chronic pain coping. The integrality still seems incipient in the practices, teaching and research on chronic pain coping. It is necessary to break paradigms that reinforce reductionist and fragmentation logic in the care of patients with chronic pain. In this sense, knowledge about coping patterns in relation to chronic pain and the training of adaptive coping skills, when worked in an interdisciplinary way can contribute to the practice of integrality in the care of people who suffer from chronic pain.

Keywords

interdisciplinary study, chronic pain, coping skills, health assistance, human being, interdisciplinary, health care, pain management, harm, restriction