Comp Therapies & Alt Healing.

Catalog description

This course examines the principles, practices, use and outcomes of complementary therapies and alternative healing. It provides an overview of the field, reviews selected systems of alternative healing and focuses on specific healing modalities that are widely used in the general population. Students will earn to use evidence-based criteria to evaluate the risks and benefits of selected complementary therapies. The integration of alternative and conventional health practices will be examined, with ethical and professional issues being explored. Emphasis will be placed on how to facilitate patient's decision-making regarding alternative therapies.