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Healing touch : a guidebook for practitioners / Dorothea Hover-Kramer, with contributing authors Janet Mentgen ... [and others].
Holman Biotech Commons RZ999 .H67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hover-Kramer, Dorothea.
- Series:
- Nurse as healer series
- Healer series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Touch--Therapeutic use.
- Touch.
- Therapeutic Touch.
- Medical Subjects:
- Touch.
- Therapeutic Touch.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : Delmar Thomson Learning, [2002]
- Summary:
- Healing Touch is an energetic approach to healing and works in conjunction with other methods of treating the body/mind interconnection. This new edition offers the care-giver a basic introduction to Healing Touch, including detailed information on the Healing Touch Certification program and suggestions on how to apply Healing Touch across various health care settings and within the traditional medical model.
- Contents:
- Section I History, Research, and Background of Healing Touch
- Chapter 1 The Development of Healing Touch as a Major Force in Energy-Oriented Healing Practices / Janet Mentgen, BS, RN, Dorothea Hover-Kramer, EdD, RN 3
- Ten Year Celebration: Healing Touch International Conference, 2000 3
- Beginnings of HT and Differentiation from Other Energy Healing Modalities 4
- Evolution of the HT Course 4
- Evolution of HT Organization and Certification 5
- Emphasis on Practitioner Development 6
- Chapter 2 Concepts of Healing in Human History / Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, PhD, RN, Dorothea Hover-Kramer, EdD, RN 8
- Definitions of Healing 8
- Differentiation between Healing and Curing 9
- Documentations of Energy Healing 10
- Beliefs About Illness and Healing 12
- The Use of Electromagnetics 14
- Energy Utilization in Medicine 16
- The Endogenous Healing Process: A Model of Healing 17
- Endogenous Healing Compared with Established Symptom Response Patterns 20
- Chapter 3 Research Related to Healing Touch (HT) / Norma Geddes, PhD, RN 24
- Limitations of Quantitative Data 25
- Healing Touch International, Inc. (HTI) 26
- Overview of HT Research Topics 29
- Implications of HT Research 33
- Need for Ongoing Research 36
- Section II The Human Energy System
- Chapter 4 Toward an Understanding of the Scientific Bases of Healing Touch / Victoria E. Slater, PhD, RN, CHTP/I, HNC 43
- The Mechanisms of Healing Touch: What is Surmised 44
- The Power Behind Healing Touch: Consciousness 54
- Chapter 5 Identified Aspects of the Human Energy System 63
- Scientific Developments 63
- The Chakras 65
- The Meridians 66
- The Biofield 67
- Practical Applications 70
- Chapter 6 The Chakras and Their Functions 76
- Relationship of the Chakras to the Biofield 83
- Chakra Meditation 89
- Chapter 7 Assessing and Identifying Patterns in the Biofield and Chakras 92
- Identifying Patterns in the Biofield 92
- Assessing the Biofield and Chakras 94
- Physical Problems as Patterns in the Biofield 95
- Emotional Issues in the Biofield 99
- Chapter 8 Basic Applications for Healing Interventions 104
- Therapeutic Touch 104
- Section III Healing Touch Interventions
- Chapter 9 Full Body Techniques / Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN 119
- Full Body Techniques 119
- Chapter 10 Localized and Specific Techniques / Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN 135
- Specific Techniques 135
- Chapter 11 Specific Interventions for Identified Problems / Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN 151
- Techniques for Identified Problems 151
- Pre- and Postoperative Techniques 159
- Medical Procedures 160
- Chapter 12 The Clinical Practice of Healing Touch / Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN 162
- The Healer 163
- Creating a Healing Environment 165
- Healing Touch Sessions 165
- The Healing Touch Practitioner 169
- Section IV Healing Touch Practice as a Complement to other Helping Modalities
- Chapter 13 Bridges with Medical and Clinical Settings 173
- Toward and Integrative Medicine 174
- Healing Touch as a Complementary Approach 175
- Documentation 182
- Chapter 14 Interfaces with Somatic Therapies 184
- Body-Related Therapies 184
- Healing Touch as a Complement to Somatic Therapies 185
- Chapter 15 Interrelationships with Psychotherapy 191
- Healing Touch and Psychotherapy 192
- Healing Touch as a Complement to Psychotherapy 193
- Implications for Family Therapy 198
- The Advent of Comprehensive Energy Psychology 199
- Section V Self-Care of the Practitioner
- Chapter 16 New Developments in Healing Touch: Expansion of Resources for Practitioners / Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, PhD, RN 205
- Advanced Energetic Interventions 206
- Building Communication Skills 206
- Enhancing Practitioner Resources 208
- Healing Touch for Animals 209
- Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry Program 211
- Chapter 17 Healing Touch for the Caregiver 213
- The Need for Self-Care 213
- Essentials of Energy-Oriented Self-Care 214
- Healing Touch for Self-Care 215
- Limitations of Self-Healing 221
- Chapter 18 Self-Development of the Healing Touch Practitioner 223
- The Inner Journey to Becoming a Healing Touch Practitioner 223
- Personal Development Techniques 225
- Opening to the Transpersonal Perspective 230
- Chapter 19 Conclusion-Opening to the Next Decade of Headling Touch 234
- Continuing Expansion of Complementary Modalities 234
- Increasing Studies of Consciousness and Energy 235
- Acceptance of Spirituality as Central to Healing 236.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0766825191
- OCLC:
- 49011989
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