Make Health Happen: Training Yourself to Create Wellness

Bys: Erik Peper, Katherine H Gibney, Catherine F Holt

Training Yourself to Create Wellness by Erik Peper, Catherine Holt, Catherine F. Holt, Katherine Gibney, Catherine Holt This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Misc. Supplies
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787293318
• ISBN13: 9780787293314
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

GRAND

A book that is real as real gets, it uses case study examples from previous students. Erik Pepper, the author and an excellent teacher, weaves scientific research into this book that highlights the influence of individual responsibility on health. Make Health Happen is an excellent self help book-one which you will pass onto friends, family, and loved ones.

Make Health Happen: Training Yourself to Ceate Wellness

Erik Peper, Professor and Director of the Institute for Holistic Studies at San Francisco State University is an international authority on biofeedback and self regulation. He recently co-authored with Katherine Gibney and Catherine Holt, "Make Health Happen, a book essential for health care professionals and their clients in learning how to optimize self healing and wellness. "Make Health Happen" provides necessary, theoretically grounded information for developing a holistic program. Chapters in each of the 4 sections progress logically and sequentially towards the learning of essential foundational theory and relaxation, imagery, and cognitive skills. Each chapter introduces and builds upon holistic concepts and strategies that are then reinforced with practice exercise sessions. Daily log keeping and group discussion formats are provided to further facilitate self awareness and experiential mastery of content. The ultimate goal is to develop ones own unique, meaningful, healing program towards wholeness. Nursing students have used this book's first edition (Creating Wholeness) as a main textbook for a university holistic nursing course; several students reported: "I now have a variety of ways to relieve stress." "This awareness has allowed me to intervene earlier and to stop some of the general overload." (Stetson, 1998) Nursing students (in one holistic nursing course) quickly and successfully learned and applied the holistic, healing principles and methods into their own lives as well as with clients in various health care settings. For example, students helped reduce clients' pain, stress, and anxiety by remaining calm, creating relaxing atmospheres, and teaching stress reduction techniques from the textbook's relaxation scripts and/or use of relaxation audio tapes. Stress reduction techniques were especially helpful in reducing anxiety for clients on ventilators (Stetson, 1998). Learning self awareness and inner skills were reported by students as rewarding and fun to do, particularly when learning more advanced self regulation skills such as hand warming. On the average, students learned to warm their hands 5.70 degrees Fahrenheit in about 5 minutes. Nursing students rated the Creating Wholeness book highly. Students reported being able to reduce their self reported stress with these techniques, from an average of 4.29 to 1.95 rating, on a scale of 1 (no discomfort) to 5 (maximum discomfort). "Make Health Happen" can be used by health care professionals in many ways. The book chapters can be assigned selectively according to what the professional deems important to learn, and can be taught on an individual or group basis. This book is definitely a "how to" manual and easy for professional use. The first half of the book teaches fundamental relaxation skills that incorporate relaxation theory and principles. The reader is introduced to relatively easy relaxation exercises w