PSY-3635 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Crisis Management, Indian Chinese Cuisine, Transcendental Meditation

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-3635
• Professor: Schlundt David

Document Summary

Objectives: define alternative therapy and complementary medicine, describe role of these therapies in health care. Present different types of alternative therapies: describe some mechanisms whereby many alternative therapies might work. Identify the dangers and limitations of alternative therapies. Alternative medicine: wide range of treatments, procedures, and methods that do not fit with the medical model, hard to characterize because so many different approaches are grouped together as alternative medicine, some common characteristics. Sources of alternative therapies: ancient, chinese medicine - acupuncture. Indian medicine - meditation/yoga: native american, modern, biofeedback, chiropractic, nutritional supplements, antioxidants. Japan - reiki: exercise, physiology, progressive, muscle relaxation. Types of alternative therapy: meditation/relaxation, herbal treatments, nutritional supplements, body work. Meditation: many types of meditation, derived from all the world"s cultures. Hindu - yoga: a major part of yoga is the practice of meditation. Buddhism - zen meditation and practices from other buddhist cultures. Christian - gnostic traditions, rosary prayers, christian meditation.