Deck 26: Alternative and Complementary Healing Practices

Question 1

Select from the list below all the reasons for the increasing use of alternative and complementary healing practices.

A)Dissatisfaction with conventional health care
B)Desire for greater control over one's health
C)Desire for cultural and philosophical congruence with personal beliefs about health and illness
D)Growing understanding of the philosopy behind alternative practices
E)Belief in the effectiveness of alternative therapies
F)Traditions passed on from parents

Answer 1

Dissatisfaction with conventional health care
Desire for greater control over one's health
Desire for cultural and philosophical congruence with personal beliefs about health and illness
Belief in the effectiveness of alternative therapies

Question 2

Select from the list below all methods that would make a health care be considered alternative.

A)Self-care
B)Wellness
C)Illness recovery
D)Self-healing
E)Health promotion
F)Illness prevention

Answer 2

Self-care
Wellness
Self-healing
Health promotion
Illness prevention

Question 3

With the goal of restoring the natural movement of vital forces, life essences, or other such vitalities, ________________bring balance back to factors disturbed by diseases or trauma.

Answer 3

energy therapies

Question 4

Why is the term healing preferred to medicine when referring to alternative and complementary modalities?

A)Medicine implies that only physicians can carry out the treatment.
B)The treatments are based on holistic philosophies that go beyond treatment or cure of the physiologic dimensions of care.
C)Clients might associate alternative treatments with hospital care.
D)Nurses have had a strong influence in naming this modality.

Question 5

Some cultures do not prescribe herbs based on the biologic effects of their chemical ingredients but rather use the _____________________by which they are prescribed on the basis of their physical and taste characteristics; for example, herbs with heart-shaped leaves are used to treat heart problems.Multiple Response
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.