Although the role and relative prominence of psychotherapy in the treatment of schizophrenia has fluctuated over time, an analysis of the history of psychotherapy for schizophrenia, focusing on findings from the recovery movement, reveals recent trends including the emergence of the development of integrative psychotherapy approaches. The authors suggest that the recovery movement has revealed ...

BACKGROUND Alternative and complementary medicines such as acupuncture remain popular with the general public and many clinicians. The term "integrative medicine" is often now used to describe this type of non-science-based medicine, which has become more of a faith-based method of practice, making it harder to challenge. Acupuncture is commonly used to treat headache along with just about any ...

BACKGROUND The demand for integrative medicine care is increasing rapidly among patient consumers, yet the integrative medicine model is not the norm in clinical practice, nor is this approach a focus in traditional medical schools. Furthermore, patient well-being and satisfaction outcomes within an integrative care model are not common in the literature. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this paper ...

agrobacterium tumefaciens is capable to transfer genes across kingdoms. it can genetically transform not only plant cells, but also many other bacterial, algal, fungal, animal and human cells. this depends on the interactions among a variety of both agrobacterium and host genes. inside the host cell, rad52 which is involved in dna repair is a key gene determining integration of t-dna by homolog...

an integrative approach of data envelopment analysis (dea) and malmquist productivity indicator for performance analysis of projects in subsea r&d; center (srdc) is presented. it is noticeable that, an output based model with constant efficiency was used for data analysis. furthermore, since the dea approach is merely used for homogeneous units, it was assumed that all the projects according to...

Griffin Hospital, a community hospital affiliated with Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, received Health Resources and Services Administration funding to strengthen and improve its combined internal medicine and general preventive medicine residency program by incorporating an integrative medicine curriculum. The purpose of project ASPIRE (Advancing Skills of Preventive ...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the scientific evidence that is available in the literature on the effects of acupuncture for treating anxiety and on the quality of such studies. METHOD the study is an integrative review of CINAHL, LILACS, PUBMED-PICO, SciELO, and The Cochrane Library between 2001 and 2014. Keywords anxiety, acupuncture therapy, acupuncture, and anxiety disorders were combined among th...

Background: The global cancer incidence and the number of survivors are increasing. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to the side effects of treatment. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of reflexology on the side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients. Method: For finding the related articles, the researchers searched several databases including PubMed & P...

Since the emergence of transdisciplinary research, context dependencies, innovative formats and methods, societal effects, scientific effects are key aspects that have been discussed at length. However, what is still missing an integrative perspective on these four aspects, guidance how to apply such in order realize full transformative potential research. We provide overview each aspect highli...