MHS 636 ADVANCED SKILLS IN INTEGRATIVE MIND-BODY INTERVENTIONS
This course is designed to provide students with an evidence-based and experiential understanding of mind-body approaches to promoting health and healing disease. Students are provided with an overview of the scientific evidence for the efficacy and mechanisms of action of mind-body therapies for health promotion and treatment of disease. Students learn advanced skills in approaches that promote and/or rely on the connection between the mind and body. These include meditation, mindfulness, guided imagery, hypnosis, acupuncture, yoga, Tai chi, Qigong, spirituality and energy therapies, journaling, and creative art therapies. Students participate in experiential learning by practicing mind-body approaches and by interacting with an integrative health provider to increase their self-awareness of the interconnections between the emotional, physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of health.