2nd American Samueil Symposium
Towards Optimal Healing Environments in Health Care
Newport Beach, California
January 23-26, 2004
Sponsors
Samueli Institute
Purpose & Focus
To explore and discuss the definitions of optimal healing environment and the seven component areas that relate to it, to recommend protocol designs for research in these areas and to provide current examples of programs that deliver these elements in the a health care setting.
Audience
Basic and clinical scientists, academics, health maintenance organization providers and administrators, policy makers and philosophers.
Outcome
The 25 papers prepared for the conference were published as a Supplement to the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in September 2004.
Table of Contents
Towards
Optimal Healing Environments in Health Care
Wayne B. Jonas, Ronald A. Chez
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1, S-1-S-6
Mindfulness
and Healing Intention: Concepts, Practice, and Research Evaluation
Stefan Schmidt
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1, S-7-S-14
Transformative
Practices for Integrating Mind-Body-Spirit
Frederic Luskin
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-15-S-22 Fostering a Healing Presence and Investigating Its Mediators
Fostering a Healing Presence and Investigating its Mediators
Sharon I. McDonough-Means, Mary Jo Kreitzer, Iris R. Bell
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-25-S-41
Optimal
Healing Environments in Nursing
Kristen M. Swanson, Danuta M. Wojnar
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-43-S-48
Health-Promotion
Behaviors That Promote Self-Healing
Michael O'Donnell
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-49-S-60
Designing
Relational Models of Collaborative Integrative Medicine That Support Healing
Processes
Stephen Bolles, Michael Maley
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-61-S-69
Healing
Spaces: Elements of Environmental Design That Make an Impact on
Health
Marc Schweitzer, Laura Gilpin, Susan Frampton
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-71-S-83
The
Spa as a Model of an Optimal Healing Environment
Gary J. Frost
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-85-S-92
Creating
Optimal Healing Environments for Patients with Cancer and Their Families:
Insights, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from a Decade of Experience
Jeremy R. Geffen
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-93-S-102
Placebo
Research: The Evidence Base for Harnessing Self-Healing Capacities
Harald Walach, Wayne B. Jonas
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-103-S-112
Optimal
Healers: Igniting the Spark and Fanning the Flame. Training Academic Medical
Faculty in Optimal Healing
David Rakel, Adam Rindfleisch
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-113-S-120
Operationalizing
the Concept of the Optimal Healing Environment in Clinical Settings: The
Importance of "Readiness"
Barbara Findlay, Marja Verhoef
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-121-S-126
Population
Health Management as a Strategy for Creation of Optimal Healing Environments in
Worksite and Corporate Settings
Larry S. Chapman, Kenneth R. Pelletier
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-127-S-140
Healing,
Medical Care, and Health Service Organizations
William E. Lafferty
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-141-S-146
Optimal
Healing Environments for Chronic Cardiovascular Disease
Debra A. Marshall, Elaine Walizer, Marina N. Vernalis
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-147-S-155
The
Role of Optimal Healing Environments in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment:
Clinical Research Protocol Guidelines
Keith I. Block, Penny Block, Charlotte Gyllenhaal
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-157-S-170
Conceptualization
and Evaluation of an Optimal Healing Environment for Chronic Low-Back Pain in
Primary Care
Dan Cherkin, Karen J. Sherman
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-171-S-178
Toward
an Optimal Healing Environment in Pediatric Rehabilitation
Gail Geller, Lana R. Warren
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-179-S-192
Recommendations
and Guidelines Regarding the Preferred Research Protocol for Investigating the
Impact of an Optimal Healing Environment on Patients with Hypertension
Kathleen M. Wesa, Richard H. Grimm Jr.
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-245-S-250
Optimal
Healing Environments in End-of-Life Care and Beyond
Susan Silver
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-201-S-209
Research
on the Treatment of Trauma Spectrum Responses: The Role of the Optimal Healing
Environment and Neurobiology
Elizabeth Osuch, Charles C. Engel Jr.
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-211-S-221
The
Role of the Optimal Healing Environment in the Care of Patients with Diabetes
Mellitus Type II
Benjamin Kligler
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-223-S-229
The
Role of Optimal Healing Environments in the Management of Childhood Obesity
Marjorie R. Freedman, Judith S. Stern
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-231-S-244
Recommendations
and Guidelines Regarding the Preferred Research Protocol for Investigating the
Impact of an Optimal Healing Environment on Patients with Substance Abuse
Kathleen M. Wesa, Patricia Culliton
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 10:supplement 1,
S-193-S-199