Whole Person Healthcare [Three Volumes]

Subjects:

• Health/Medicine » Alternative Health & Healing
• Psychology » Psychology (General)
• Health/Medicine » Health/Medicine (General)

Reviews:

• "Makes a good case for each of the chosen healing practices, such as yoga, meditation, and qigong as well as music, art, dance, and drama therapies. . . . Unlike other encyclopedias of complementary or alternative medicine. . .Whole Person Healthcare is written for the student in the field as well as the provider."
  —American Reference Books Annual 2008
• "These 3 volumes advance a biopsychosocialspiritual model of the person and a holistic, integrative, multidisciplinary, multicultural, evidence-based approach to healthcare that addresses the complex interaction of these dimensions of health and illness. What is the place of WPH in the new medical continuum? Moving us away from the Cartesian dualism of scientific materialism towards a more humanistic paradigm, WPH focuses on issues of existential meaning in illness, as well as the psychological, emotional, imaginable, metaphorical, and symbolic element of being human through the expressive and creative arts. The constructs horizontal integration and practice as taught are introduced as an answer to our current crisis in clinical practice and public policy towards humanizing healthcare in the emerging model of collaborative care."
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• "Each of the three volumes covers a different topic: humanizing health care; psychology, spirituality, and health; and the arts and health. With help from doctors, lawyers, psychologists, public health officials, and other contributors, Serlin effectively conveys the message that integrative medicine may be the wave of the future. . . . [T]his set focuses more on the psychological side of integrative medicine than medicine in general. It would be suitable for a college-level audience with interest in complementary alternative medicine, public health, or psychology and psychiatry. It serves as both an introduction to various practices and presents suggestions on their implementations. . . . This set is recommended for academic and health sciences libraries."
  —Library Journal 10/15/2007
• "These 3 volumes advance a biopsychosocialspiritual model of the person and a holistic, integrative, multidisciplinary, multicultural, evidence-based approach to healthcare that addresses the complex interaction of these dimensions of health and illness. Whole Person Healthcare focuses on issues of existential meaning in illness, as well as the psychological, emotional, imaginal, metaphorical, and symbolic element of being human through the expressive and creative arts. This approach integrates behavior, cognition, and consciousness, takes into account the impact of lifestyle an health issues, educates patients to be informed consumers who practice prevention and self-care, relies on experiential and theoretical learning, and utilizes symbolic and nonverbal, as well as linear and verbal, modes of expression, data gathering, and verification in research and clinical practice. The whole person paradigm adds the spiritual, transcendent, or vertical dimension of personality to the biopsychosocial model currently being advanced at the levels of clinical practice and public policy. . . . [The authors] present a wide range of historical, theoretical, and practical examples from hospital-based, complementary and alternative mind-body therapies, and define a role for humanistic psychology and the expressive and creative studies in transforming the way healthcare is practiced."
  —The Humanistic Psychologist 1/1/2008
• "This work presents a vision of health care for the future that honors the whole person--mind, body, and spirit. The three volumes present the expertise of over 80 contributors and editors, who explore integrative approaches and whole person programs. Each has experience in some aspect of whole person health care. Each volume demonstrates the application of mind-body-spirit therapies in a variety of contexts and settings. Volume 1 presents the challenges of current health issues and health behaviors, lays the foundation for the practice of integrative therapies, and offers guides for practitioners in whole person health care. Volume 2 focuses on meaning in illness; the role of the psychological, cognitive, and spiritual aspects of health; and the partnering of health care institutions with spas, resorts, and residential communities. Volume 3 introduces the history and practices of art and ritual in healing. Each chapter concludes with a Tool Kit for Change from professional, participant, and global perspectives. Although other works on holistic health are available, none provides the comprehensive scope of this set. Extensively researched and referenced, it includes helpful figures, tables, and graphs. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."
  —Choice 4/1/2008
• "Exhaustively researched and intelligently written, Whole Person Healthcare is an indispensible reference for anyone who's ready to help transform the healthcare system from the ground up."
  —Shift (Institute of Noetic Sciences) June-August 2008
• "The present collection should interest all health professionals concerned with the research and practice of integrative approaches, patients seeking to empower themselves, and health care policy makers. Students from diverse disciplines will certainly benefit from learning more about holistic health, and many of the different chapters in this book would be appropriate reading for university courses and seminars. . . . Readers can use this book to acquire new skills; even more important, the book will prompt practitioners to pay attention to the whole person, which in turn should result in better care. . . . Ilene Serlin should be commended for her colossal achievement in bringing together in one collection all these disciplines and for sowing the field with ideas for the future. This is a truly interdisciplinary effort including doctors, lawyers, psychologists, public health officials, and others."
  —PsycCRITIQUES June 4, 2008
• "I would recommended this set of books for libraries in medical and nursing schools, colleges for training in the arts, and seminaries and clinical pastoral education settings. Each chapter offers enormous food for thought in how together we might improve our healthcare system for the good of the practitioners and the recipients of their care."
  —Catholic Library World September 2008
• "Dance/movement therapist and clinical psychologist Ilene Serlin has overseen the editing of this extensive, and well- done, three volume collection of essays and research findings to support the ever-growing holistic trend in healthcare. . . . The authors' thoroughness and clarity is a stellar description of the effectiveness and power of dance/movement therapy. . . . Whole Person Healthcare is definitely worth knowing about as a resource, particularly as dance/movement therapists make progress in their efforts to be respected and valued in the wider world of health and healing. Dr. Serlin and the other dance/movement therapy authors have done the field a remarkable service with this offering."
  —American Dance Therapy 10/16/2008
• "I highly recommend this series to psychologists and laypeople who are both interested in the future of humanistic psychology and the politics of 2lst-century healthcare."
  —The Humanistic Psychologist 1/1/2009

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1: Humanizing Healthcare
  Preface
  Foreword by Dean Ornish
  Introduction: Whole Person Healthcare
  Volume Editors Notes: DiCowden
  Chapter 1: Health Care for the 21st Century
  Chapter 2: Defining Integrative Healthcare
  Chapter 3: Integrative Health and Loving Care: The Promise and the Limits
  Chapter 4: Healing Environments in Integrative Healthcare
  Chapter 5: Integrative Healthcare in Hospitals
  Chapter 6: Integrative Healthcare in Rehabilitation
  Chapter 7: Integrative Protocols: Integrating Philosophy and Practice in the Real World
  Chapter 8: Integrative Healthcare and Marginalized Populations
  Chapter 9: Integrative Healthcare and Education for Children
  Chapter 10: Integrative Training of Professionals and Transdisciplinary Knowledge
  Chapter 11: The International Classification of Functioning: Facilitating Integrative Health Care
  Chapter 12: Risk Prevention and Patient Protection in Integrative Healthcare
  Chapter 13: Dollars and Sense: Making It Happen (Part I)
  Chapter 14: The Politics of Healthcare: Making It Happen (Part II)
  Afterword
  About the General Editor
  About the Volume Editors
  About the Contributors
  About the Advisers
  Cumulative Index
  Volume 2: Psychology, Spirituality and Healthcare
  Preface
  Foreword: Dean Ornish
  Introduction: Whole Person Healthcare
  Volume Editors Notes
  Chapter 1: Clinical Health Psychology: From Hospital Practice into the Community
  Chapter 2: Healthcare in the New Millenium: The Convergence of the Spa, Medical and Hospitality Industries
  Chapter 3: The Biological Basis of Emotion
  Chapter 4: Multi-Modal Imagery and Healthcare
  Chapter 5: Meaning and Illness
  Chapter 6: Spirituality, Health and Mental Health: A Holistic Model
  Chapter 7: The Role of Clergy and Chaplains in Healthcare
  Chapter 8: The Art and Science of Meditation
  Chapter 9: Prayer and Intention in Distance Healing: Assessing the Evidence
  Chapter 10: Yoga and Mind-Body Medicine
  Chapter 11: QiGong for Health and Wellness
  Chapter 12: The Psychological and Spiritual Challenges Inherent in Dying Well
  Chapter 13: The Role of Rituals in Psychotherapy
  An Afterword, Looking Forward
  About the General Editor
  About the Volume Editors
  About the Contributors
  About the Advisers
  Cumulative Index
  Volume III: The Arts and Health
  Preface
  Foreword: Dean Ornish
  Introduction: Whole Person Healthcare
  Volume Editors Introduction
  Chapter 1: Applications of Art to Health
  Chapter 2: History of the Arts and Health across Cultures
  Chapter 3: Development of the Contemporary International Arts in Healthcare Field
  Chapter 4: Hospital Artists in Residence Programs: Narratives of Healing
  Chapter 5: The Science of Creativity and Health
  Chapter 6: Arts Therapies: Whole Person Integrative Approaches
  Chapter 7: Dance/Movement Therapy for the Whole Person
  Chapter 8: Drama TherapyPast, Present and Future
  Chapter 9: Poetry Therapy: Reclamation of Deep Language
  Chapter 10: Spirituality, Hope and Music Therapy: A Treatment in Palliative Care
  Chapter 11: Expressive Dance, Writing, Trauma, and Health: When Words Have a Body
  Chapter 12: Art Therapy and the Soul
  Chapter 13: Use of the Arts To Work With Stress And Trauma In The Israeli Context
  Chapter 14: More than Words: Bringing the Arts into Clinical Psychology Training
  Afterword
  About the General Editor
  About the Volume Editors
  About the Contributors
  About the Advisers
  Cumulative Index

PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Perspectives 2008.pdf	Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
Praeger Health and Wellness Spring 2008.pdf