(11 contact hours) The healing traditions of alternative, holistic, and integrative medicine have been practiced around the world for thousands of years. In recent years, practitioners of Western medicine have begun to recognize the benefits of incorporating these traditions into their healing methods to provide more effective care for their patients.In this four-lesson certificate program, you'll gain an understanding of this unique and effective approach to health care. Designed for both health care professionals and consumers, the program explores key integrative and holistic therapeutic modalities, including the use of humor, the impact of music and sound, energy healing, and massage and bodywork. As you'll learn, both the experience of practitioners and mounting scientific evidence supports the use of these integrative techniques. In the program, you'll gain an awareness of the philosophies of health and wellness that guide all integrative and healing techniques, and learn ways to put these philosophies into action to promote healing. Above all, you'll gain a new respect for human individuality and the healing power of the integrative health approach.Accreditation:ALLEGRA Learning Solutions, LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing nursing education only and does not imply Commission on Accreditation approval or endorsement of any commercial product. ALLEGRA Learning Solutions courses are acceptable for CE contact hours in all states. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP 14693, for the stated number of contact hours. California Board of Behavioral Sciences Provider Number PCE 1564. This course meets the qualifications for the stated hours of continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. ALLEGRA Learning SolutOther products from ed2go