Integrating Complementary Therapies in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals - Softcover

Peters MBChB DRCOG MFHom MLCOM, David; Chaitow ND DO (UK), Leon; Harris BA LicAc BAcC, Gerry; Morrison MA FRCGP, Sue

 
9780443063459: Integrating Complementary Therapies in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0443063451 ISBN 13: 9780443063459
Verlag: Churchill Livingstone, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

This book is a practical and readable guide to the integration of complementary therapies into mainstream primary care. Based on the successful experiences of the authors' clinical setting, it offers clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals a realistic routemap of the key issues, as well as practical ways in which to ensure close working, appropriate referrals, advice and treatment decisions. Patient information sheets and clinical guidance sheets for key conditions are included in full.The text covers:

  • Practical steps to how complementary therapies may be integrated into mainstream care
  • models and issues of research in complementary therapies
  • how to design an integrated service, with clear examples
  • funding, resource and legal issues
  • issues related to economic evaluation
  • adaptation of the service through a reflective approach
  • clinical treatment option sheets
  • patient self-help and diet information sheets
    • Of interest and practical help to a wide range of healthcare professionals, this book will be especially valuable to those currently working in primary care, family practice, and any complementary therapy field.
  • Offers a detailed example of how a successfully integrated service - complementary therapies and primary care - can be developed
  • Covers key issues for practice development and clinical governance
  • Looks precisely at how to deliver and evaluate a service, including economic evaluation
  • Includes examples of all the actual service documentation and information sheets needed to run the service
  • Includes patient information sheets on conditions and therapies
  • Includes flowcharts of clinical decision-making and treatment options for the healthcare professional
  • Authoritative - written by members of a successful and integrated working team.

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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial

    Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner’s Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.

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    Verlag
    Churchill Livingstone
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2001
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    0443063451
    ISBN 13 
    9780443063459
    Einband
    Taschenbuch
    Anzahl der Seiten
    352
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