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| | Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The use of alternative approaches to mental health care can be substantially helpful to people living with severe mental illness as they cope with fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and stressors that are often compounded by the serious symptoms and consequences of mental illness. |
 | | In the medical field, the use of alternative health care practices such as acupuncture, stress reduction, and mind/body interventions have been documented to be effective in the treatment of physical and psychological problems such as hypertension, chronic pain, cardiac arrhythmia, anxiety, and the symptoms of both cancer and AIDS. |
 | | The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health was established in 1998 to stimulate, develop, and support research on complementary and alternative medicine for the benefit of the public. |
| www.bu.edu /cpr/rr/alternative/rr-alternativeapproaches.html (1855 words) |
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