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Complimentary and alternative (C & A) practices, including those which form the core of “behavioral medicine” are rapidly finding acceptance within the clinical community. Simultaneously, “accepted” practices are falling from favor as they are shown to be ineffective or even counterproductive. Patients now visit as many or more “alternative” providers as traditional providers and are spending billions of dollars on attempts to get care not available from the traditional medical community. This course is intended to acquaint you with many of those practices which may become the new standard of care in the near future. It is also intended to help you learn to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the claims made by the proponents of these practices so you can more readily separate the real knowledge from the emotional advertising.

Be able to list and explain the basic mechanisms and principles of CAM and its most common techniques.

Be able to write essays accurately describing a balanced overview of a selection of complementary and alternative medicine interventions recently and currently practiced in the “West”.

Be able to explain in essay format the underlying psychophysiological mechanisms through which non-specific interventions are likely to produce very real effects.

Be able to demonstrate through description of experimental designs techniques for objectively assessing the validity of claims presented in formats different than usually acceptable to current “Western” science.

Be able to demonstrate the ability to assess the strength of evidence supporting a variety of common CAM interventions within the student’s scope of practice through literature searches so the student can decide whether to get additional training to incorporate these techniques into practice.

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Mosby’s Complementary & Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach; 3rd edition. By Lyn W. Freeman. Published by Mosby of St. Louis Mo. In 2008. ISBN 978-0-323-05346-4.

45 credit hours.

The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

There is one year to complete the course. Courses not completed by that time are void and must be repurchased if still available.

No refunds are provided for courses not completed within one year of purchase.