As a Health Care Professional, How Should You Respond When

question 15

Essay

As a health care professional, how should you respond when someone asks you for advice about an alternative or complementary therapy?

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Definitions:

Ineffable

Describing an experience, feeling, or quality that is too great or extreme to be expressed in words.

Conscious Experiences

The felt aspect of being aware of internal or external existence, encompassing thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.

Blindsight

The ability of a person with a lesion in the visual cortex to reach toward or correctly “guess” about objects in the visual field even though the person reports seeing nothing.

Automatization

The process through which tasks become automatic via repeated practice, requiring less conscious thought and effort.