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Consumers, mental healthcare professionals, researchers and public health advocates can now access comprehensive information on all aspects of integrative mental healthcare.
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Integrative mental healthcare can be defined as integration in mental healthcare of conventional and complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies for which there is some high-quality scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness. The legally responsible and ethically defensible practice of complementary and alternative medical (CAM) approaches in mental health care is a fundamental concern.
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What legal and ethical issues apply to spirituality in medical care generally as well as mental healthcare? Consider, for example, practices such as energy healing (Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Polarity).
The same legal and ethical issues apply as they do to CAM generally, only they loom larger. For example, the following questions may arise concerning potential liability.Continue Reading List of Legal and Ethical Issues in Spiritual Care (Such as Energy Healing)