Personal Health or Healing Touch

Personal Health: Perspectives and Lifestyles

Author: Patricia A Floyd

PERSONAL HEALTH: PERSPECTIVES AND LIFESTYLES, Fourth Edition emphasizes the individual's personal responsibility for wellness by presenting general (core) and current health information to guide decision making. The focus of the text is to present health topics, including cultural, racial, ethnic, and gender diversity issues, identify risk factors, and give you useful and sensible suggestions to reduce the risk for preventable diseases and conditions in order to achieve optimal levels of wellness for yourself, your friends, and your family.

Booknews

This third edition of an accessible introductory text for undergraduates continues to emphasize the relationship between health and various cultural differences, and adds new boxes on diversity which provide information on topics including stress as it relates to age, gender differences in communication, and HIV/AIDS in the African- American community. Other pedagogical features include tips for applying information in daily life, critical thinking boxes (new to this edition), facts and statistics on topics of interest, self- assessment, and study and review questions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Healing Touch: The Church's Forgotten Language

Author: Zach Thomas

This helpful book shows how clergy, friends, and congregations can reclaim the ancient practice of healing touch. Presents biblical principles that encourage wholesome behavior and protect against unhealthy touch.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Touch in Western Healing Traditions
1	Called and Created to Touch	3
2	The Role of Touch in the Mind/Body Split	25
3	The Language of Healing Touch	43
Pt. 2	Touch in Modern Ministry
4	The Intention of Touch in Pastoral Care	61
5	Expectations and Settings of Touch	74
6	Healing Touch in Worship	92
	Epilogue	107
	Appendix A. Reflections Sheets	109
	Appendix B. Examples of Ministries with Bodywork Therapy	113
	Notes	119
	Bibliography and Resources	133
	Index	141