Module 06: Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Therapies Flashcards
These are therapies used together with conventional treatment recommended by a person’s health care practitioner.
Complementary Therapy
What’s another term for complementary therapies?
Integrative Health Care Programs
What are some examples of complementary therapies?
(1) Therapeutic Touch
(2) Hypnotherapy
(3) Chiropractic Therapy
(4) Guided Imagery
(5) Breathwork
These are non pharmacological therapies used in place of conventional therapies.
Alternative Therapies
What are some examples of alternative therapies?
(1) Exercise
(2) Chiropractic
(3) Herbal Supplements
E.g. A person with chronic pain uses yoga to encourage flexibility and relaxation at the same time in which analgesics or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed.
These are interventions done by licensed health care providers.
Integrative Therapies
What does integrative therapies emphasize?
These emphasize the importance of the relationship between the practitioner and the patient.
How would you describe integrative therapies?
“A way of being, knowing, doing that advances the health and well-being of persons, families, and communities through caring-healing relationships.”
This type of complementary therapy refers to the use of natural products.
Biologically Based Therapies
What are some examples of biologically based therapies?
(1) Orthomolecular medicine (megavitamin)
(2) Probiotics (live microorganisms)
(3) The “zone” dietary program
These types of vitamins increase the intake of vitamin C.
Orthomolecular medicine (megavitamin)
This type of complementary therapy refer to the manipulation of energy fields.
Energy Therapies
What are some examples of energy therapies?
(1) Acupuncture
(2) Healing Touch
(3) Reiki Therapy
(4) Therapeutic Touch
(5) Magnet Therapy
This type of therapy refers to the act of placing hands on or above the body area.
Reiki Therapy
This type of complementary therapy refers to the involvement of body with focus on body structures and systems.
Manipulative and Body Based Methods
What are some examples of Manipulative and Body Based Methods?
(1) Acupressure
(2) Chiropractic medicine
(3) Massage Therapy
(4) Simple touch
This type of complementary therapy refers o the connections between thoughts and physiological functioning?
Mind-body Interventions
What are some examples of Mind-Body Interventions?
(1) Music Therapy
(2) Tai Chi
(3) Yoga
What are some movement therapies based on Eastern and Western approaches?
(1) Dance Therapy
(2) Feldenkrais methods
(3) Pilates
This method pertains to the establishment of good self-image.
Feldenkrais method
This type of complementary therapies refer to traditional Chinese medicine and native American traditional healing by asking spirits for direction.
Whole Medical Systems
This pertains to how the mind modifies the biochemical functions of the major organ systems in response to feedback.
Stress response (thoughts and feelings cause the release of certain chemicals)
This pertains to how the mind reduces generalized cognitive, physiological and behavioral arousal.
Relaxation Response
This elongates muscle fibers and reduces the neural impulses sent to the brain thereby decreasing brain activity.
Relaxation
These teach individuals ways to change their behavior to help alter physical responses to stress and improve symptoms such as muscle tension, GI discomfort and sleep deprivation.
Complementary Therapies
These helps individuals to develop cognitive skills to reduce negative ways of thinking in which they respond to situations in their environment.
Relaxation Therapy
This pertains to the ability to identify, differentiate and maintain attention.
Focusing
This is the ability to accept and tolerate experiences that are uncertain and unfamiliar.
Receptivity
This is the ability to stop unnecessary goal directed and analytic activity.
Passivity
What is the long term goal of relaxation therapy?
People to continually monitor themselves for indicators of tension and consciously let go and release the tension contained in various body parts.