in partnership with the
Behavioral Medicine Research & Training
Foundation
Non-profit Scientific & Educational Organization 91-1948669
operating under Section 501c3 of the US Internal Revenue Code
6576 Blue Mountain Road, Port Angeles, WA 98362
Course Description / Outline for:
Introduction to Behavioral and Alternative Medicine
45 CEs, Course Fee: $750
Presented by Richard A. Sherman, PhD
Course Concept and Description / Objectives:
Complimentary and alternative (C & A) practices, including those which form the core of
“behavioral medicine” are rapidly finding acceptance within the clinical community.
Simultaneously, “accepted” practices are falling from favor as they are shown to be ineffective
or even counterproductive. Patients now visit as many or more “alternative” providers as
traditional providers and are spending billions of dollars on attempts to get care not available
from the traditional medical community. This course is intended to acquaint you with many of
those practices which may become the new standard of care in the near future. It is also intended
to help you learn to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the claims made by the proponents
of these practices so you can more readily separate the real knowledge from the emotional
advertising.
Specifically, this course intends to:
1. Provide you with an introduction to the basic mechanisms and principles of behavioral
medicine and its most common techniques.
2. Provide you with a balanced overview of a selection of complimentary and alternative
medicine interventions recently and currently practiced in the “West”.
3. Provide information on the underlying psychophysiological mechanisms through
which non-specific interventions are likely to produce very real effects.
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