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3.00 Credits
An exploration of contemporary research issues in integrative health, including foundational elements of Western medicine and empirical approaches; multicultural and transhistorical approaches to paradigm validity and medical knowledge; CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) effectiveness in randomized trials; critical approaches to scientific and medical research; and data bias and manipulation. Reviews basic concepts in psychoneuroimmunology, including molecular and cellular healing, DNA repair, immune function, and neuronal reprogramming.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
A foundational course for developing coaching skills to work with individuals or teams. Students learn professional coaching skills based on national standards from science-based models, and learn how to enhance those models with integral, psychospiritual philosophy from several wisdom traditions. As a result, this course exceeds the customary format of traditional coaching models that have a narrower focus on diet, exercise, stress, career, and relationships. Through an expanded awareness of how cultural, spiritual, and planetary issues impact life-enhancing behavior, students explore their personal mindset and capacity for empathy required to assist individuals in making lasting behavior change. Students develop increased self-awareness, effective communication and relationship skills, and emotional, spiritual, and social intelligence practices.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course brings the foundational skills in coaching into a larger organizational setting, and focuses on professional competencies for designing, implementing, and sustaining work-site wellness programs. Students learn how to perform organizational culture audits, enlist senior management support, assess needs and interests of populations, evaluate feedback, design and administer program models, access evaluation instruments, deliver return-on-investment reports, and perform ongoing evaluations and program updates and incentives. Students may pursue opportunities for public health externships.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course introduces methods of health assessment using Health Risk Appraisal instruments, scientifically validated and employed in the health promotions field. Students will explore a suite of wellness tools that gather data on key lifestyle factors, health risks, and biometric markers for individual, group, and trend reports. Content will include psychosocial techniques for addressing diversity, cultural support and barriers, personal beliefs and intentions.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines emerging theories and practical applications in the fields of subtle energy medicine, mind/body healing, and behavioral medicine. New evidence-based research methods and technologies for investigating the human biofield will be examined. Critical reviews of stress-reduction practices such as mindfulness meditation, Reiki, chi gong, and support groups will explore how effective such practices are in changing personal lifestyle habits, increasing self-efficacy, improving health outcomes, or preventing chronic illness. The course offers experiential as well as didactic learning opportunities.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A study of the psychoneural and somatic dimensions of conscious embodiment, movement, and physical activity as effective therapeutic tools for reducing tension, premature aging, stress, sympathetic nervous system overdrive, anxiety, and chronic ailments, and for promoting healthful lifestyle practices and chronic disease risk reduction. This course entails both embodied practice of somatic practices and an intellectual overview of stress reduction and somatic psychology research.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course supports professional development, personal integration, and self-healing practices for IHL students. It reviews basic communication skills; effective and therapeutic communication strategies; and didactic, somatic, and multicultural communication perspectives. A practical and theoretical review of group dynamics, and mediation, is offered through facilitated modeling in small groups. A part of each session will be devoted to mind-body-spiritual practices (yoga, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, meditation, visualization, chi gong, etc.) in order to support the student'physical, spiritual, and mental health.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course offers theoretical and practical knowledge in regard to the historic development, structural organization, and financing of contemporary health care systems. It introduces students to the economic factors and issues facing conventional and integrative health care systems today, and reviews program design and implementation, health services administration, and financing among various types of health care delivery systems. It includes a discussion of diverse management styles, and the influence of power and politics on health care organization and delivery.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with fundamental questions about the value and impact of globalization on world populations and the delivery of health care. What impact do development strategies, drug testing and research, family planning, nutrition and food supply, and global economics have on world populations We examine the cultural constructs and metaphors that allow us to understand the behavior of global systems in a world dominated by multinational, profit-oriented structures of transportation, communication, economics, and health care delivery.
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3.00 Credits
This class explores the relationship between cultural definitions of health and illness, and their impact on mainstream and marginalized populations locally and globally. It reviews health care issues of mainstream and majority communities (e.g., women and the elderly), as well as those of marginalized minority communities (e.g., immigrants, populations of color, sexual minorities, and alternative-health consumers), paying particular attention to intersections and conflicts among sociocultural variables. It uses historic, multicultural, and systems analyses to review the development of health care in America.
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