"A clearly presented useful source of information for healthcare professionals wishing to integrate complementary therapies in their practice ."Integrated Health No 8, July 2001 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
This comprehensive guide covers the general issues involved in dealing with complementary therapies - change, policy, models, supervision - and examines the broad concepts which underpin many of the therapeutic approaches - energy, healing, environments. The bulk of the book consists of short summaries of a number of therapies, examining specifically the research underpinnings, the therapeutic potential related to nursing and midwifery, and contraindications.
- Written specifically for nurses and midwives to cover what they need to know, what they can practice for themselves, and what they need to know in referring or giving advice.
- Provides concise, clear and accessible coverage with numerous summary boxes to highlight key information.
- Includes contraindications to help the user encountering unfamiliar therapies.
- Provides up-to-date information based on current research.
- Thoroughly updated and revised throughout especially to reflect changes following the House of Lords report and EU recommendations.
- Seven new chapters on: * Choosing a therapy/course/practitioner * Research methodology -prayer and distant healing * Energy medicine * Alexander technique * Chiropractic * Spiritual healing (including Reiki) and * Tai chi and yogaM
- More international in scope and less UK specific e.g. the Useful addresses appendix will be expanded to include Australian and USA addresses.
- Content reorganized to reflect changing emphasis in comp therapies e.g. some chapters merged or removed.
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