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MBM 5600 - Mind-Body Medicine: OverviewThe Mind-Body Medicine: An Overview course provides a foundational introduction to mind-body medicine and integrative health. The course reviews paradigms for health and healing implicit in mainstream medicine, humanistic psychology, complementary and integrative therapies, and traditional healing systems in non-Western cultures. The course examines scientific advances in psychoneuroimmunology, the neurosciences, and consciousness studies, with implications for mind-body healing. The course focuses on the nature of the healing process, including a review of health care practices within various cultural systems and historical eras. The course assists students to recognize the relationships among conceptual paradigms, research approaches, explanatory models for disease, and specific therapeutic interventions. Students are challenged to develop a personal vision of health and health care which emphasizes higher level wellness for self and patient, the unity of mind-body-spirit, and the active role of the patient in the healing process. 3.0 credit(s) Offered: Offered FA - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. RC Required. |
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