This introductory course provides a framework for incorporating integrative therapies into your work with clients or patients. By the end of the course, you will be able to assess if integrative therapies are good options in specific situations, as well as educate patients and colleagues about benefits and risks. You will be confident discussing the evidence base for integrative therapies in general, with an understanding of some of the challenges of research in this area, and able to identify reliable sources of evidence-based information. You will leave with the skills to partner with patients or clients around use of these therapies and a plan to introduce integrative therapies in your work or other setting.
Introduction to Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices
This course is part of Integrative Health and Medicine Specialization
Instructors: Robin Austin, DNP, DC
Sponsored by HKUST
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Describe the field of integrative health.
Evaluate the state of the research evidence and reliable sources to use.
Discuss the overall safety of these therapies and how to optimize safe use.
Create a plan to successfully introduce integrative therapies into your work or other setting.
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- Clinical Research
- Health Care
- Health Administration
- Patient Education and Support
- Medical Science and Research
- Health Systems
- Health Care Administration
- Healthcare Industry Knowledge
- Patient Safety
- Policty Analysis, Research, and Development
- Policy Analysis
- Economics, Policy, and Social Studies
- Health Care Procedure and Regulation
- Nursing and Patient Care
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Reviewed on Nov 21, 2019
I love this course. It has made my reflexology practice simpler and provided better clarity about it's relationship with other integrative therapies. Thank you!
Reviewed on Feb 16, 2021
Thank you for this introduction! I am more aware of how so many different evidence-based therapies and healing practices are there to help us to build, maintain, regain our homeostasis!
Reviewed on Nov 5, 2020
I have learned so much from taking this class. I actually have a direction of where I want to see myself in the near future.
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