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Articles: clinical practice
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A Decade of Complementary Therapies Provision
by Brian Isbell
This article focuses of the development and growth of complementary therapies provision, which began to accelerate from 1995 in universities. However, the first mainstream providers were Further and Adult Education Institutes and prior to this, private colleges. Compared to a decade ago when there were less than five such UK university courses, today there are around 100.
A Learning Experience
by Leon Chaitow, ND DO
We speak of integration and this is usually, in my experience, focused around the issues of how GPs (and sometimes hospitals) can find ways of working with CPs (complementary practitioners). The discussion is largely 'doctor' centred.
An Integrated Approach to 21st Century Medicine
by Dr Shamim Daya
The author takes an integrated approach to 21st century medicine with the view that it encourages us to see a far bigger picture of who and what we are and the many different factors that contribute toward our ill health. He says disease patterns also appear to have changed radically and with that we have to also change our medical approaches, especially as we are now seeing an increase in cancer, fatigue, mental illness/depression, addictions, allergies, diabetes/obesity, inflammatory diseases and toxicity.
An Integrated Clinical Approach to Optimum Health
by Dr Rajendra Sharma
A fully qualified doctor who specialises in the use of Complementary Medicine. A member of the Faculty of Homoeopathy, London, he has a broad knowledge of diagnostic techniques and therapies.
Building a Thriving Complementary Practice
by Bernadette Doyle
...if your practice isn't thriving in the way you would like, it's time to take a look at steps you could be taking to attract more clients with ease.
Complementary Healing Methods: The GP's Dilemma
by Dr Jayne LM Donegan
In this article, the author shares the dilemma she faces, as an NHS GP and homeopath, when cancer patients, for one, cling to the hope that conventional medicine will save them no matter what the cost, and are closed to other safe, effective treatments that might benefit them in some way.
Complementary Medicine - Prepare for the Future
by Richard Eaton
In April 2003, Hazel Blears, then the Public Health Minister, announced[1] that her Department will be spending £1.3 million researching Complementary Medicine to develop "a solid evidence base for complementary and alternative medicine" with a view to making it available on the NHS, possibly through GP Surgeries.
Complementary Medicine and the Voluntary Sector
by Richard Eaton
This article looks at issues relevant to the future practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). This includes the relaxation of constitutional and economic restrictions, public sector policies aimed at increasing the voluntary sector within the healthcare system, and what action practitioners should take to accommodate to and benefit from these changes.
Complementary Therapies within an NHS Clinic
by Adrian Seager
Warwick House Medical Centre is an NHS Practice consisting of 4 doctors: 2 male, 2 female. It is a non-fundholding practice of 6,000 patients and the workload is shared equally between four partners. It is situated on the outskirts of Taunton in modern, purpose-built facilities which were opened in July 1991.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) - Is It Really Necessary?
by Carole Preen
The author looks into the importance of personal growth and development for alternative / complementary therapists / practitioners, and questions whether this Continuing Professional Development (CPD), as she refers to it, is really necessary.
Do I Really Need a Degree?
by Susanna Dowie
This article focuses on one woman who has recognized the importance of excellent credentials in the world of complementary therapies. Liz Jeannet, a Complementary and Alternative Medicine practitioner, returned to college in 2001 to study for a three-year, full-time BSc degree in Acupuncture. She opted to do this so that she could feel that she was trained to the same high level as the doctors that she works alongside on Harley Street.
Don't Pick up the Client's Negative Energy: From White Light to Neuroscience
by Su Fox
The author has always followed ‘white light protection’ practices, intended to protect the practitioner from a client’s ‘negativity’, but has had reservations – would these practices shut out positive energy as well? Or make the practitioner less sensitive?
Healthy Bristol
by Rosy Daniel
Dr Daniel started the three-year Healthy Bristol Integrated Medicine Project in April 2001, with the aim of making Complementary and Alternative medicine, Psychological Support Services and Self-help Approaches freely available to the general public and truly integrated within conventional medicine services.
How Accurate is a Diagnosis?
by Dayal Pathberiya
This feature looks at how diagnoses are made and how much faith we should place in them.
How Can Complementary Therapists Make a Living?
by Bob Wilmington
This article gives some insight into the approaches that a newly qualified complementary therapist can take in getting established in their chosen career and making a decent living, emphasizing the importance of planning a working strategy, doing the sums, seeking some business advice, doing plenty of groundwork and networking with other therapists to find out their experiences.
How To Find a Qualified, Competent Practitioner
by Sarah Noble
This article addresses the some of challenges presented to patients and practitioners, including: how, as a patient, you can find your way through the maze of qualifications and titles to locate a therapist who is qualified and competent for your needs; and how, as a practitioner, you can determine which training or associations will provide you with the most credible training and qualifications.
How We Should Practise Medicine
by Dr Sam Shohet
The basis of all complementary modalities is to take the whole patient into account rather than named conditions they are suffering from such as asthma, eczema and diabetes; yet we all seem to be treating conditions much in the same way as drugs by having set prescriptions, only with different tools such as herbs and homoeopathic remedies without much regard to the rest.
Influence of the Placebo Effect upon the Healing Process
by Carol Squire
In this article the author attempts to dispel the negative connotations associated with the term placebo effect (the power to please) and, using comprehensive evidence from recent research studies, illustrates how the placebo effect can have a positive role in the healing process.
Integrated Medical Approach
by Dr Atul K. Shah and Dr (Mrs) Rupa A. Shah
We are making a quantum leap into the next century. We have witnessed and are enjoying the fruits of incredible research done in every field of life. Medical research is a major area, one that has now gone as far as the possibility of cloning human beings. That is how accurate and advanced we can claim ourselves to be.
Integrated Medicine - Philosophy and Clinical Practice
by Dr Mark Atkinson
This article focuses on Integrated Medicine, which the author says, is the Medicine of the New Millennium that is here to stay, but still not easy to define as there is no universally accepted definition of it.
Integrated Treatment Approach for Emotional and Behavioural Problems
by George Andruszkiewicz
The author, a qualified homeopath, describes the work of the Crossroads Centre, part of the City of London and Hackney Alcohol Service, for whom he offers homeopathic services and nutritional advice on a part-time basis.
Limits of Self-Prescribing
by Paul Houghton
The customer should get what the customer wants, but what is that exactly? Some come in expecting to talk to an expert. Others want the client-servant treatment. Quite a few would like a friend. And a lot have no idea what it is they really want.
Massage, Sex and Supervision
by Su Fox
This article focuses on the erotic aspect of body massage and why practitioners and clients rarely get turned on, despite there being some similarities between some of the rituals in massage and lovemaking.
Portrait of Natural Health Clinic
by Tazdin Jivraj
In this article on the portrait of Natural Health Clinic, the author provides a summary of this clinic which he runs, and also shares his views on when people do seek alternative therapies.
Practical Advice for Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists
by Sue Ricks
In this article the author offers advice on how Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists can improve the quality of their service to keep and attract more clients.
Practical Protection for Practitioners
by Kay Zega
This column is aimed to help practitioners practise in a professional manner which protects them and their clients.
Professional Advice for Complementary Practitioners
by David Balen
In the light of increasing scrutiny of alternative and complementary medicine by the general public, the legal and medical professions, and the media, this article offers practical advice for therapists on how the complementary health movement can move forward and protect itself from today’s compensation culture.
Regulation of Group 2 Complementary Therapies
by Carole Preen
Carol Preen tackles the regulation of three Group 2 therapies which she practises, Aromatherapy, Massage and Reflexology, and how they will affect the business of these therapists. She contacted the Aromatherapy Consortium (AC), The General Council for Massage Therapy (GCMT) and The Reflexology Forum (RF), and provides an overview of their current position and progress below:
Some myths about practice building
by Allan Rudolf
For most adults, their single most time-consuming activity is work. Yet unfortunately very few people find full satisfaction in theirs. I believe lack of satisfaction in work is a major problem in our society.
Ten Steps to a Healthy Complementary Therapy Practice
by Celia Johnson
Based on her 13 year career as a massage therapist, Celia Johnson sets out a 10-point plan to advise newly qualified therapists how to create a successful and fulfilling practice.
The Healer as an Instrument for Wholistic Healing
by Dr Daniel Benor
Regular columnist Dr Daniel Benor looks at how many caregiver factors contribute to enhancing the effectiveness of clinical intervention. The effectiveness of caregiving can be enhanced with a wholistic approach. The author describes ways in which this can be done:
The Wounded Healer: Boundaries in the Client/Therapist Relationship
by Anon
This article examines the ethics of maintaining safe boundaries between client and therapist with an aim to encouraging those entrusted with the care of vulnerable clients to look at how their behaviour may cross such boundaries, especially as some training programmes do not include an ethical code of conduct in dealing with clients.
Voluntary Self-regulation of Complementary Therapies
by Carole Preen
This article discusses the issue of multi-disciplinary establishments that have sprung up over the past few years to cater to the concerns of multi-disciplinary therapists about having to register with several different regulatory bodies.
Wander-Full, Wonder-Filled Thinking
by Caroline Barrow
The author starts enthusiastically by discussing the different passions that people have from golf and fishing to crochet and knitting. Yet, how often does one take time to think about what they do as a Practitioner?
What Therapists Need from a Professional Association - An Aromatherapy Perspective
by Sue Jenkins and Ian Smith
It is really important that therapists understand what they should get in return for their hard-earned subscriptions and, in turn, how they can influence the professional association and the whole profession to which they belong.
Who Treats the Therapist? - A Therapeutic Journey
by Stuart Robertson
The author looks into the workings of therapists in general, their insecurities, uncertainties and belief systems, and how they can break some of these modes.
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