Speaker background:

Dr. Elik is a school, clinical, and health psychologist, who has been in the process of transitioning to a full time private practice in Ancaster/Hamilton, Ontario, and completing her duties at McMaster Children's Hospital, Pediatric Chronic Pain Program. She completed her MA and PhD at the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program at OISE/University of Toronto. Her main research is on an online ADHD intervention for teachers (as a part of Dr. Penny Corkum's team at Dalhousie University). She has been also active in various smaller research projects, including on chronic pain, through supervision of Master's and Honour's theses since 2007.

OBJECTIVES

Learning about:

• Evidence based pediatric chronic pain assessment and diagnostic process
• Evidence based treatment of pediatric chronic pain
• The role of the psychologist in assessment and treatment of pediatric chronic pain
• A trauma-informed, multimodal, and action/exposure-focused approach for psychological therapy with an integrated case discussion