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Self-Reported Low Self-Esteem. Intervention and Follow-Up in a Clinical SettingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
At the Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine in Copenhagen, 43 patients who presented with low or very low self-esteem were treated with psychodynamic short-term therapy complemented with bodywork. They received an average of 20 sessions at a cost of 1,600 EURO. The bodywork helped the patients to confront old emotional pain from childhood trauma repressed to the body-mind. Results showed that 60.5% recovered from low self-esteem (95% CI: 44.41–75.02%). Calculated from this, we have NNT = 1.33–2.25. Almost all aspects of life improved at the same time (p < 0.01): physical health, mental health, quality of life, and abi...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - February 9, 2007 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Quali-Quantitative Analysis (QQA): Why It Could Open New Frontiers for Holistic Health PracticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Holistic health practice is often described as being about understanding the larger contexts of patients, their health services, and their communities. Yet do traditional quantitative and qualitative health research methods produce the best possible evidence for the holistic practices of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals? This paper argues “no”, and examines the potential of a cutting-edge, social science research method — Quali-Quantitative Research (QQA) — for providing better evidence for holistic practice, particularly in small-N populations, such as rural and remote communities. It does so with ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - December 15, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Process Evaluation of the Tier 1 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To understand the implementation quality of the Tier 1 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S., two observers carried out process evaluation in six schools randomly selected from the participating schools in the form of systematic observations of 12 units. Results showed that the overall level of program adherence was generally high, ranging from 50% to 95%, with an average of 84.5%. High implementation quality of the program in the areas of student interest, student participation and involvement, classroom control, use of interactive delivery method, use of strategies to enhance student motivation, instructors’ familiarity wi...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - November 17, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Qualitative Evaluation of the Project P.A.T.H.S. Based on the Perceptions of the Program ParticipantsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Qualitative evaluation was carried out to understand the perceptions of the students participating in the Tier 1 Program of the P.A.T.H.S. Project. Five focus groups based on 43 students recruited from four schools were conducted to generate qualitative data to evaluate the program. With specific focus on how the informants described the program, results showed that the descriptors used were mainly positive in nature. When the informants were invited to name three metaphors that could stand for the program, the related metaphors were basically positive in nature. Finally, the program participants perceived many beneficial ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - November 17, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Neuroscience of MeditationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article discusses topics including brain-mind-reality, consciousness, attention, emotional intelligence, sense of self, meditative mind, and meditative brain. A new hypothesis is proposed for a better understanding of the meditative mind. Meditation is an art of being serene and alert in the present moment, instead of constantly struggling to change or to become. It is an art of efficient management of attentional energy with total engagement (poornata, presence, mindfulness) or disengagement (shunyata, silence, emptiness). In both states, there is an experience of spontaneous unity with no sense of situational intera...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - November 17, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Implementation of the Tier 1 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S.: Interim Evaluation FindingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To understand the implementation quality of the Tier 1 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S., 25 schools and three school social service units were randomly selected to participate in telephone interviews regarding the quality of the implementation process of the Tier 1 Program of the P.A.T.H.S. Project. In the telephone interviews, the participants described the responses of the students and the workers to the program, the perceived benefits of the program, their assessment of the positive and negative features of the program, as well as difficulties involved in the implementation process. Results showed that most workers per...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - November 16, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Psychodynamic Short-Time Therapy Complemented with Bodywork. A Clinical Follow-Up Study of 109 PatientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is a study of 109 patients who attended the Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine in Copenhagen during the 2004–2006 period, grouped according to the symptoms they presented with. Every new patient was asked to answer a 10-question composite questionnaire containing QOL1, QOL5, and four questions on ability to function socially, ability to function sexually, ability to love, and ability to work, rated on a 5-point Likert scale, on initial contact and after 1–3 months, when the patient had received about five treatments, the patient was asked to complete the questionnaire again, and finally again after 1 year. All ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - October 30, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Sense of Coherence and Physical Health. A Cross-Sectional Study Using a New Scale (SOC II)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, we constructed a new sense of coherence scale (SOC II), where we eliminated the notion of predictability (that life is meant to be predictable), which was present in the original SOC scale developed by Aaron Antonovsky (1923–1994) (SOC-29 and SOC-13). Our hypothesis was that SOC II would show a higher degree of association with physical health than the original SOC scale. In order to test this idea, we used a cross-sectional study including 4,648 Danes and used the three different health measures: self-evaluated physical health, physical symptoms, and self-evaluated psychological health. We found that SOC ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - October 10, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Sense of Coherence and Physical Health. Testing Antonovsky’s TheoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a previous paper, we argued that the original 29-item sense of coherence (SOC) scale developed by Aaron Antonovsky (1923–1994) was insufficient according to its reflection of SOC. The purpose of this study was to create a new version of the original 29-item SOC scale in order to test his hypothesis of a causal link between SOC and physical health. This shorter version was built on the exact same idea, theory, and conceptualization used by Antonovsky, which resulted in a SOC scale containing only 9 abstract questions. These nine questions, in addition to two questions about physical and psychological health, made up a ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - October 9, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Sense of Coherence (SOC) Among Psychotherapists in Austria, Differentiated According to Number of Individually Completed Training Therapy SessionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The sense of coherence (according Aaron Antonovsky, 1923–1994, when a person’s sense that his/her own life and the world are sufficiently comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) of Austrian psychotherapists was assessed and compared with a standard sample, as well as with the sense of coherence (SOC) of members of other professions. In addition, the question as to whether psychotherapists who had completed more extensive individual training therapy/self-awareness sessions had a higher SOC than do those with fewer, was addressed. Forty psychotherapists who worked in private practices and various psychosocial health ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - October 2, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Significant Delay of Lethal Outcome in Cancer Patients Due to Peroral Administration of Bacillus oligonitrophilus KU-1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, the suggested method was, in our opinion, a good alternative to conventional chemo- and radiotherapy techniques. In order to evaluate its efficiency for various tumors, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study is needed.
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Cross-Cultural Medicine in the Middle East at the Start of the 21st Century: Where East and West MeetEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The “global village” has resulted in the need to tackle cross-cultural issues in the medical school curriculum. The southern region of Israel (the Negev) provides a unique opportunity to study the interaction between medicine and culture. The Negev population is a multicultural society, with Bedouin Arabs comprising almost a fifth of its population. This imposes tremendous challenges to the medical establishment in the region and serves as a “cross-cultural laboratory” for educating medical students in global health issues. Both the traditional Israeli medical school track, as well as the newly established Medical ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Therapeutical Intervention, Relaxation, Mental Images and Spirituality (RIME) for Spiritual Pain in Terminal Patients. A training program.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Therapeutic intervention involving the technique of Relaxation, Mental Images and Spirituality (RIME) can foster the re-definition of Spiritual Pain in terminal patients. A training course was developed to instruct health care professionals in its use, and the results were followed up by evaluating reactions of professionals to its use in intervention with patients. Six subjects (a nurse, a doctor, three psychologists and an alternative therapist), all skilled in Palliative Care, were invited to take part in the experience. They worked with eleven terminal patients in public hospitals of the cities of Campinas, Piracicaba ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Sense of coherence and physical health. The emotional sense of coherence (SOC-E) was found to be the best-known predictor of physical healthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study we created a measure for emotionality named the emotional sense of coherence (SOC-E). We found that SOC-E was significantly associated to physical health (r = 0.266; p
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Phytochemisty and Spermatogenic Potentials of Aqueous Extract of Cissus populnea (Guill. and Per) Stem BarkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In vivo clinical trials involving the administration of crude extracts of Cissus populnea to male subjects (normospermic, oligospermic, and azoopermic) in a 72-day study revealed that continuous exposure of the subjects to the extracts over this period did not significantly (p £ 0.05) alter sperm count, morphology, motility, or volume. Antimicrobial screening of the extract against some selected microbial isolates secondarily implicated in male infertility revealed total inactivity against the microbial isolates screened, i.e., Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella paratyphi, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas a...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Sense of Coherence and Health. The Construction of an Amendment to Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC II)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In two previous papers, we concluded that (1) the sense of coherence (SOC) scale developed by Aaron Antonovsky (1923–1994) is unable to prove the association between SOC and the physical health empirically and (2) the SOC scale is unlikely to be a fair materialization of Antonovsky’s idea and, thus, unlikely to measure SOC correctly. In order to improve the scale, we developed some new questions that we suggest should be incorporated in a new questionnaire and scale (SOC II) derived directly from Antonovsky’s idea and the three key explanatory concepts of SOC: comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness. We ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

The Good life: A holistic approach to the health of the populationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The idea of a holistic approach towards public health planning presented itself through a food-related and trivial curiosity. It is, however, emphasized that food and nutrition are only one aspect of public health. The aim is to reintroduce a holistic approach to achieve sustainable public health with emphasis on the interpretation of the term “holistic”. Holistic decision making is not a new phenomenon and has historical basis. In line with shifts in social norms, decision making has evolved. In particular, various complex models for public health have been proposed to respond to ever-increasing health issues. The adv...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Clinical holistic medicine: Pilot Study on the Effect of Vaginal Acupressure (Hippocratic pelvic massage)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is a pilot study of 20 female patients with a long history of sexual problems (mean is 8.92 years) who received vaginal acupressure (VA) with a quantitative and qualitative evaluation: 56% experienced help and none reported setbacks, 89% rated the treatment to be of high quality, and 89% rated it as valuable. After the treatment, most reported their problems to be less serious and their general quality of life improved. Only 17% reported minor or temporary side effects. VA was found statistically and clinically significant (p < 0.05, improvement more than 0.5 step on a 5-point Likert scale) to help patients with chron...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Holistic Health: Does It Really Include Mental Health?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Holistic health, incorporating mind and body as equally important and unified components of health, is a concept utilized in some health care arenas in the United States (U.S.) over the past 30 years. However, in the U.S., mental health is not seen as conceptually integral to physical health and, thus, holistic health cannot be realized until the historical concept of mind-body dualism, continuing stigma regarding mental illness, lack of mental health parity in insurance, and inaccurate public perceptions regarding mental illness are adequately addressed and resolved. Until then, mental and physical health will continue to...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic sexology and acupressure through the vagina (Hippocratic pelvic massage)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many gynaecological and sexological problems (like urine incontinence, chronic pelvic pains, vulvodynia and lack of lust, excitement and orgasm) are resistant to standard medical treatment. In our work at the Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine in Copenhagen we have found that vaginal acupressure, or Hippocratic pelvic can help some of these problems. Technically it is a very simple procedure, as it corresponds to the explorative phase of the standard pelvic examination, supplemented with the patient’s report on the feelings it provokes and the processing and integration of these feelings. Sometimes it can be very diff...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Case Story of Anna. III. Rehabilitation of philosophy of life during holistic existential therapy for childhood sexual abuseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When we experience life events with overwhelming emotional pain, we can escape this pain by making decisions (in our mind) that transfer responsibility from our existence to the surrounding world. By doing this, we slowly destroy the essence of our being, health, quality of life, and ability to function. The case of Anna is an excellent example of such a systematic destruction of self, done to survive the extreme pressure from childhood abuse and sexual abuse. The case study shows that the damage done to us by traumatic events is not on our body or soul, but rather our philosophy of life. The important consequence is that...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Clinical Holistic Health: Advanced Tools for Holistic MedicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
According to holistic medical theory the patient will heal, when old painful moments, the traumatic events of life often called “gestalts”, are integrated in the present now. The advanced holistic physician’s expanded toolbox has many different tools to induce this healing, some which are more dangerous and potentially traumatic than others. The more intense the therapeutic technique, the more emotional energy will be released and contained in the session, but the higher is also the risk for the therapist to loose control of the session and loose the patient to his or her own dark side. To avoid harming the patient m...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Changes in Chinese Discharged Chronic Mental Patients Attending a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program with Holistic Care Elements: A Quasi-Experimental StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study attempted to examine the changes and related factors in discharged chronic mental patients attending a psychiatric rehabilitation program in Hong Kong adopting a self-help group (SHG) approach with holistic care emphases on the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual functioning of the program participants. A quasi-experimental design involving an experimental group (109 participants attending the program) and a control group (154 patients from a psychiatric outpatient clinic who had never attended any SHG before) was adopted with the participants responding to measures assessing their functioning in the ...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Case Story of Anna. II. Patient Diary as a Tool in TreatmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In spite of extreme childhood sexual and violent abuse, a 22-year-old young woman, Anna, healed during holistic existential therapy. New and highly confrontational therapeutic tools were developed and used to help this patient (like acceptance through touch and acupressure through the vagina). Her vulva and introitus were scarred from repeated brutal rape, as was the interior of her mouth. During therapy, these scars were gently contacted and the negative emotional contents released. The healing was in accordance with the advanced holistic medical toolbox that uses (1) love, (2) trust, (3) holding, and (4) helping the pati...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - September 11, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals

From Healing the Whole Person: An Argument for Therapeutic Touch as a Complement to Traditional Medical PracticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The growing popularity and use of therapeutic touch (TT) is an issue that has generated controversy and concern within the medical community. While anecdotal and traditional scientific evidence suggest that TT would be an advantageous addition for clinics and hospitals to include in their armamentarium of complementary interventions within the realm of traditional medicine, TT has not become widely available in the U.S. One reason for the lack of availability may be the dearth of conclusive scientific support for TT’s efficacy and, therefore, its inclusion in clinic and hospital treatment planning would give it the appea...
Source: TSW Holistic Health - August 25, 2006 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: journals