Complementary And Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care

The widespread use of nonconventional treatments, or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and the increasing evidence supporting their therapeutic benefits call for a concerted scientific effort to integrate treatments that work into mainstream medicines. Answering that call is the groundbreaking "Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health," a concise, practical reference that reviews the many CAM approaches used in North America and Europe to treat'or self-treat'mental health problems, and the history and rationale for a variety of CAM treatments, including the risks and benefits of their integration into mainstream mental health care. Two dozen contributors with both conventional and nonconventional expertise present current information about safe, effective mental health treatments'including herbals and other natural products, stress management, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine'that have not yet been fully examined or endorsed by the institutions of conventional biomedicine. This book: Covers background issues, including conceptual and historical foundations, emerging ideas and trends, safety issues, potential drug interactions and adverse effects, and medical-legal issues pertaining to use of nonconventional treatments in mental health care.Spiegel, David is the author of 'Complementary And Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781585622023 and ISBN 1585622028.