This introductory course provides a framework for incorporating integrative therapies into your work with clients or patients. By the end of the course, you will be able to assess if integrative therapies are good options in specific situations, as well as educate patients and colleagues about benefits and risks. You will be confident discussing the evidence base for integrative therapies in general, with an understanding of some of the challenges of research in this area, and able to identify reliable sources of evidence-based information. You will leave with the skills to partner with patients or clients around use of these therapies and a plan to introduce integrative therapies in your work or other setting.



Introduction to Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices
This course is part of Integrative Health and Medicine Specialization


Instructors: Robin Austin, DNP, DC
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Describe the field of integrative health.
Evaluate the state of the research evidence and reliable sources to use.
Discuss the overall safety of these therapies and how to optimize safe use.
Create a plan to successfully introduce integrative therapies into your work or other setting.
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Reviewed on Apr 22, 2021
It's a long course. And you might have to wait a week or 2 just to complete a requirement as it is dependent on reviewing other's work.
Reviewed on Jan 19, 2021
This course is really amazing and informative. attendants are guided to wonderful links that can be so helpful for them to understand the basic of the knowledge.
Reviewed on Sep 6, 2020
I knew little about integrative therapies before taking this course but now a whole new world has opened up to me both professionally and personally.
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