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MANY AMERICANSMORE THAN 30 PERCENT OF ADULTS
AND ABOUT 12 PERCENT OF CHILDRENUSE HEALTH CARE
APPROACHES DEVELOPED OUTSIDE OF MAINSTREAM
WESTERN, OR CONVENTIONAL, MEDICINE. WHEN
DESCRIBING THESE APPROACHES, PEOPLE OFTEN USE
ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY INTERCHANGEABLY,
BUT THE TWO TERMS REFER TO DIFFERENT CONCEPTS
HOLISTIC THERAPY
ALTERNATIVE THERAPY
 Practioners should be open and nonjudgmental to their
patients
Mental status
Physical status
Beliefs
Culture and traditions

Practioners should
Be aware of programs that will benefit their patience.
&
Promote patients to take part in their own care.

Using this approach to view patients health and wellness.

 The body does its best to stay in a relative state of homeostasis, which
is imperative to it properly functioning (Thibodeau and Patton, 2008).
Both mind and body health and wellness

The stress response controls the actions of the endocrine, nervous, and
immune systems (Lorentz, 2006).
Reaction to stress is what causes dis-ease.

Research shows a mind/body connection (Dacher, 2006).

Body and mind interaction makes health or illness.

Mental training can be used to control physiological effects of mental

health (Dacher, 2006).
Physical exercise can help calm the mind.

Integrative ways of looking at health and wellness from the

multiple perspectives.
 Psychological views
Psychological aspects can results in a series of physiological
responses and adaptations that must be considered (Seaward, 2009).

Physiological views
Common misconception is that physical activity only helps
physical health (Thygerson and Thygerson, 2011).

Complementary/Alternative views
Wellness is seen as the whole being greater than the sum of the parts
(Seaward, 2009)

Psychological, physiological, and

complementary/alternative views
 Meditation, imagery, therapeutic touch, and humor
versus
Medication and invasive procedures

Allopathic medicine focuses on disease

Mind-body therapies focus on the whole being

Mind-body therapies have no side effects and help

improve patients sense of well-being by letting them be
in more control (Lorentz, 2006).

How is this more effective than viewing health and

wellness from just one single angle?
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 REFERENCES
Alternative Medicine. (2015). Retrieved from
http://photo.pds.org:5012/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2013090600

An overview of holistic nursing. (2015). Retrieved from

http://www.slideshare.net/paramitasakti/an-overview-of-holistic-nursing