Introduction to the book
PART I: LEARNING, STUDYING& PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Skills for College& Work-based Learning; R.Adams
Personal awareness, Critically Reflective Practice and Professional
Development; R.Adams
PART II: CONTEXTS FOR PRACTICE
Introduction to Complementary Therapies and Alternative Medicine;
R.Adams
Approaches to Illness, Treatment, Health Promotion and Wellbeing;
R.Adams
Policy & legal basis for Complementary Therapies and Alternative
Medicine; R.Adams
PART III: MANAGING YOUR OWN PRACTICE
Working in Teams and with Different Professions; R.Adams
Running a Complementary Practice as a Small Business; R.Adams
Hygiene, Health and Safety; R.Adams
PART IV: WORKING WITH PATIENTS AND CLIENTS Ethical&
Value Bases for Practice; R.Adams
Communicating with People and Record Keeping; R.Adams
Process of Working with Clients/Patients; R.Adams
Researching Practice; R.Adams
PART V: PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND
ALTERNATIVE PRACTICE
Roots of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine;
R.Adams
Basic Functional Anatomy; J.Richards
Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Urinary Systems; J.Tsai
Reproductive, Endocrine and Nervous Systems; J.Tsai
Immune, Digestive, Musculoskeletal and Integumentary Systems;
J.Tsai
Differential Diagnosis; J.Tsai
PART VI: APPROACHES TO PRACTICE
Homeopathy; S.Armstrong
Life, Spirituality, and Chinese Medicine; F.Meng
Traditional Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Herbalism and Massage;
R.M.Chan
Meditation; L.Rabsang
Herbal Medicine; A.Stableford
Aromatherapy; K.Tinker
Chiropractic; J.Richards& H.Gemmell
Osteopathy; A.Maddick
Reflexology; N.Hall
Alexander Technique; L.Schibel Mason
Reiki; R.Pharo& D.Sawyer
Healing; S.Canning
Expressive Therapies; S.Jennings
PART VII: CONTINUING EDUCATION& PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
32 Continuing Professional Development; R.Adams
Appendix: Professional Organizations and Useful Contacts
Bibliography
Index.
...an excellent text for foundation degree students and I would certainly welcome it as required reading on our courses. I particularly liked the generous amount of references that underpin for each section. ' - Dr Jane Buckle, Programmes Manager and Principal Lecturer: Complementary Medicine, Centre for Complementary Healthcare& Integrative Medicine (CCHIM), Thames Valley University UK 'This is a very comprehensive, well thought out and executed review of complementary therapies and alternative medicine...a must for the bookshelf of students and qualified therapists alike.' - Diane Morgan, Editor: Footprints Newsletter
ROBERT ADAMS is Professor at the School of Health and
Social Care at the University of Teesside. He is well
established as an author having researched and written many books
on health and social care, policy, open learning and practice.
Robert spent some of his teaching career at the Open Learning
Foundation – and here he was also originator, commissioning editor,
and contributing writer in teams developing more than 80 open
learning packages in health and social work. Robert has a keen
interest in the area of complementary health.
Robert has extensive knowledge of the publishing process. He is
well established as an author with a record of success in the
fields of health and social care (specifically health and social
services policy, criminal and youth justice and social work). He is
also experienced as an editor, and has recently coordinated a team
of 31 contributors on Foundations of Health and Social Care. Many
of Robert's edited books, such as Social Work Themes, have
established themselves as core texts in the majority of courses in
the UK at which they were targeted.
Robert spent some of his teaching career at the Open Learning
Foundation – and here he was also originator, commissioning editor,
and contributing writer in teams developing more than 80 open
learning packages in health and social work. These were unit-based,
comprising workbooks, associated readers, assessment guides,
glossaries and audiocassettes. In addition, Robert designed and
co-wrote an open learning book entitled Learning Good Practice in
Community Care, CCETSW, London (1992). He acted as consultant to
the development of a similar Community Care package for the Open
College. He was co-writer (1993) of the 5-book package of Open
University books for the Advanced MESOL programme for senior
managers in the Health and Social Services, leading to the Diploma
in Health and Social Services Management, entitled Developing
Management Competence, Learning How to Learn, Managing the
Selection and Development of Staff, Staff-Employee Relationships
and Working in Teams.
Robert has a background that spans both health and social care, and
both professional and academic fields. He worked for 7 years in the
Prison Department, as prison officer, assistant, deputy and
acting-governor; before leaving to become director of Barnardo's
multi-professional initiative aimed at providing support for
families and children in trouble in the community. From 1984,
Robert was chair of the social policy and social work area at
Humberside College of Higher Education, later Humberside
Polytechnic; and from 1990 to 1996 he was a founding staff member
of the Open Polytechnic, later Open Learning Foundation, where he
became Head of Health and Social Services Educational Development.
In 1996 he took up the post of Professor of Human Services
Development at the University of Humberside (now University of
Lincoln), and worked as a visiting Professor there from 1997 to
2002. From 2002 Robert took up the position of Visiting Professor
at University of Teesside, where he is now based.
Robert has a keen interest in the area of complementary health, and
is well-equipped to commission, and collate, contibuted chapters by
writers with expertise in the specialist fields.
'...an excellent text for foundation degree students and I would certainly welcome it as required reading on our courses. I particularly liked the generous amount of references that underpin for each section. ' - Dr Jane Buckle, Programmes Manager and Principal Lecturer: Complementary Medicine, Centre for Complementary Healthcare& Integrative Medicine (CCHIM), Thames Valley University UK 'This is a very comprehensive, well thought out and executed review of complementary therapies and alternative medicine...a must for the bookshelf of students and qualified therapists alike.' - Diane Morgan, Editor: Footprints Newsletter
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