Whole Person Healthcare: [3 volumes]

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Introduced by two giants in the field of medicine, David Spiegel, M.D., of Stanford University and Dean Ornish, M.D., at the University of California, these volumes show how Western and non-Western healing practicesincluding yoga, meditation, QiGong, art, music, and dance therapyare being integrated with modern Western medicine and psychology, in hospitals and at nontraditional healthcare facilities. Breaking research on this growing field is featured, as are observations by healthcare professionals who say the new approaches are helping patientsand also helping professionals rediscover their ancient role as healers. Each focused, practical chapter includes a Tool Kit for Change, summarizing major treatment points from a particular perspective. Examples of training templates, funded programs, and treatment protocols are included. Prevention and lifestyle are addressed, as are cures.

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This work presents a vision of health care for the future that honors the whole person--mind, body, and spirit. The three volumes present the expertise of over 80 contributors and editors, who explore integrative approaches and whole person programs. Each has experience in some aspect of whole person health care. Each volume demonstrates the application of mind-body-spirit therapies in a variety of contexts and settings. Volume 1 presents the challenges of current health issues and health behaviors, lays the foundation for the practice of integrative therapies, and offers guides for practitioners in whole person health care. Volume 2 focuses on meaning in illness; the role of the psychological, cognitive, and spiritual aspects of health; and the partnering of health care institutions with spas, resorts, and residential communities. Volume 3 introduces the history and practices of art and ritual in healing. Each chapter concludes with a Tool Kit for Change from professional, participant, and global perspectives. Although other works on holistic health are available, none provides the comprehensive scope of this set. Extensively researched and referenced, it includes helpful figures, tables, and graphs. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. * Choice *
Each of the three volumes covers a different topic: humanizing health care; psychology, spirituality, and health; and the arts and health. With help from doctors, lawyers, psychologists, public health officials, and other contributors, Serlin effectively conveys the message that integrative medicine may be the wave of the future. . . . [T]his set focuses more on the psychological side of integrative medicine than medicine in general. It would be suitable for a college-level audience with interest in complementary alternative medicine, public health, or psychology and psychiatry. It serves as both an introduction to various practices and presents suggestions on their implementations. . . . This set is recommended for academic and health sciences libraries. * Library Journal *
I would recommended this set of books for libraries in medical and nursing schools, colleges for training in the arts, and seminaries and clinical pastoral education settings. Each chapter offers enormous food for thought in how together we might improve our healthcare system for the good of the practitioners and the recipients of their care. * Catholic Library World *
The present collection should interest all health professionals concerned with the research and practice of integrative approaches, patients seeking to empower themselves, and health care policy makers. Students from diverse disciplines will certainly benefit from learning more about holistic health, and many of the different chapters in this book would be appropriate reading for university courses and seminars. . . . Readers can use this book to acquire new skills; even more important, the book will prompt practitioners to pay attention to the whole person, which in turn should result in better care. . . . Ilene Serlin should be commended for her colossal achievement in bringing together in one collection all these disciplines and for sowing the field with ideas for the future. This is a truly interdisciplinary effort including doctors, lawyers, psychologists, public health officials, and others. * PsycCRITIQUES *
Exhaustively researched and intelligently written, Whole Person Healthcare is an indispensible reference for anyone who's ready to help transform the healthcare system from the ground up. * Shift (Institute of Noetic Sciences) *
Makes a good case for each of the chosen healing practices, such as yoga, meditation, and qigong as well as music, art, dance, and drama therapies. . . . Unlike other encyclopedias of complementary or alternative medicine. . .Whole Person Healthcare is written for the student in the field as well as the provider. * American Reference Books Annual *
I highly recommend this series to psychologists and laypeople who are both interested in the future of humanistic psychology and the politics of 2lst-century healthcare. * The Humanistic Psychologist *
These 3 volumes advance a biopsychosocialspiritual model of the person and a holistic, integrative, multidisciplinary, multicultural, evidence-based approach to healthcare that addresses the complex interaction of these dimensions of health and illness. Whole Person Healthcare focuses on issues of existential meaning in illness, as well as the psychological, emotional, imaginal, metaphorical, and symbolic element of being human through the expressive and creative arts. This approach integrates behavior, cognition, and consciousness, takes into account the impact of lifestyle an health issues, educates patients to be informed consumers who practice prevention and self-care, relies on experiential and theoretical learning, and utilizes symbolic and nonverbal, as well as linear and verbal, modes of expression, data gathering, and verification in research and clinical practice. The whole person paradigm adds the spiritual, transcendent, or vertical dimension of personality to the biopsychosocial model currently being advanced at the levels of clinical practice and public policy. . . . [The authors] present a wide range of historical, theoretical, and practical examples from hospital-based, complementary and alternative mind-body therapies, and define a role for humanistic psychology and the expressive and creative studies in transforming the way healthcare is practiced. * The Humanistic Psychologist *
These 3 volumes advance a biopsychosocialspiritual model of the person and a holistic, integrative, multidisciplinary, multicultural, evidence-based approach to healthcare that addresses the complex interaction of these dimensions of health and illness. What is the place of WPH in the new medical continuum Moving us away from the Cartesian dualism of scientific materialism towards a more humanistic paradigm, WPH focuses on issues of existential meaning in illness, as well as the psychological, emotional, imaginable, metaphorical, and symbolic element of being human through the expressive and creative arts. The constructs horizontal integration and practice as taught are introduced as an answer to our current crisis in clinical practice and public policy towards humanizing healthcare in the emerging model of collaborative care. * InformaWorld *
Dance/movement therapist and clinical psychologist Ilene Serlin has overseen the editing of this extensive, and well- done, three volume collection of essays and research findings to support the ever-growing holistic trend in healthcare. . . . The authors' thoroughness and clarity is a stellar description of the effectiveness and power of dance/movement therapy. . . . Whole Person Healthcare is definitely worth knowing about as a resource, particularly as dance/movement therapists make progress in their efforts to be respected and valued in the wider world of health and healing. Dr. Serlin and the other dance/movement therapy authors have done the field a remarkable service with this offering. * American Dance Therapy *
It seems certain some of these texts will find their way as recommended reading in some of the more experimentally advanced training programs in the country. The material is indeed beyond the scope of what most psychologists are now practicing, but then again, California is almost always far ahead of what the rest of the country will catch up to at some later point. * Independent Practitioner *

Author Bio

Ilene Ava Serlin, Set Editor, is a Clinical Psychologist and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin County. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, past President of the Division of Humanistic Psychology and served on the APA's Presidential Task Force on Whole Person Psychology. She is Founder of the Arts Medicine Program at the Institute of Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center. Serlin has taught at Saybrook Graduate School, at the University of California, Los Angeles, at Lesley University, and abroad. She is on the Editorial Boards of PsycCritiques, American Journal of Dance Therapy, and The Journal of Humanistic Psychology.