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This breakthrough guide offers social workers and community practitioners a bold new approach to complementary medicine-working with resources in the community instead of relying solely on integrating with traditional healthcare systems. Its framework is organized to expand community health services, with emphasis on locally-based social workers, nurses, and other trained community practitioners providing mind/body therapies, self-care coaching, and general wellness programs, as well as modality-based approaches. A wide array of healing modalities is featured, including yoga, meditation/mindfulness, hypnosis, biofeedback, qi gong, acupuncture, ayurveda and curanderismo with robust data and evidence for the merits of each. This model carries abundant opportunities for meshing complementary approaches with mainstream healthcare and extending continuity of care into the community for local clinicians to engage with individual clients, groups, and community resources. Included in the coverage: Social, cultural and economic factors, folk medicines, and home remedies. Scientific foundations of community consciousness. Agriculture, food, diet, nutrition, and hydration. Mindfulness interventions as community and in community. Consciousness-based community health and education Challenges for integration of CAM in the community. The innovative strategy set out in Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine in the Community gives social workers, psychotherapists and counselors, complementary and alternative medicine professionals, public health professionals, and health psychologists a palette of innovative ideas and effective approaches as diverse and exciting as the communities they serve.

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Marc S . Micozzi, MD, PhD is a worldwide leader in mind-body and complementary/alternative medicine. He has had a distinguished career as a researcher and physician executive at the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, DC, and the College of Physicians in Philadelphia PA. He is adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics, and pharmacology, at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and of Medicine and Physical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has published over 30 medical and trade books, and founded and edited the first scientific journal, and the first textbook, Fundamentals of Complementary & Integrative Medicine, now going into a 5th edition (2013) and continuously in print since 1995. Donald McCown, MAMS, MSS, LSW is assistant professor of integrative health at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and has taught mindfulness-based interventions to professionals and students at Thomas Jefferson University, the Won Institute of Graduate Studies, and the post-graduate program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Council for Relationships. He is lead co-author of Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators, and New World Mindfulness: From the Founding Fathers, Emerson, and Thoreau to your Personal Practice. He is completing a PhD in social science through Tilburg University, with a dissertation on the ethics of mindfulness in clinical practice. He maintains a practice in mindfulness-based psychotherapy with families, caregivers, and individuals with developmental disabilities. Sebhia Marie Dibra is an author, entrepreneur, speaker and public policy advocate. Sebhia contributes a 21st-century perspective on consciousness, biophysics, and psychology, and spiritual dimensions of health and wellness issues, including life cycle and healthy aging. Sebhia is the Founder and President of The Conscious Generation, a nonprofit organization directed toward teaching children mindfulness and meditation. Sebhia serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Physics Education and the Journal ofAdvances in Physics under the editor-in-chief at the University of Oxford. She works with individuals and organizations, as well as policymakers, thought leaders, and influencers. She combines her strengths in interdisciplinary fields to support innovative research.She is featured in Publishers Weekly, Energy Times, Awareness Magazine, NYC Talk Radio, and The Huffington Post.

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