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Mentoring for
Therapeutic Touch Practitioner Consistent with NH-PAI Criteria
You are responsible for:
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commitment to
practice Therapeutic Touch consistently |
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monthly communication,
including documentation of Therapeutic Touch assessments and
interventions |
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fee for a year
mentoring arrangement based on hours and written agreement |
Mentoring for Therapeutic Touch Teacher Consistent with NH-PAI Criteria
Pre-requisites:
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3-5 years
experience as Therapeutic Touch Practitioner necessary to establish
mentor/teacher-mentee relationship |
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completion
of Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Therapeutic Touch programs |
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fee and written
agreement to be mutually agreed upon between mentor and mentee |
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supervised
teaching and/or co-presentation opportunities included (at mentee
expense) |
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eligible to
apply to NH-PAI Therapeutic Touch
Teachers' Cooperative to become a recognized
Therapeutic Touch teacher after successful completion |
Coaching for Lifestyle Changes
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co-create a health
promotion plan |
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stress
reduction |
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diet changes |
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exercise |
Fees individually negotiated
Fees
Phone consultation
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$100/hour |
Speaker fee to bring Therapeutic Touch program to your facility
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$400 for ½ day + expenses |
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$1000/day + expenses |
Research
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Guidelines for
critiquing and designing research |
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Proposals |
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Literature
Reviews |
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Read Abstract for The Effectiveness of
Therapeutic Touch for the Experience of Pain and Quality of Life in
Persons with Fibromyalgia Syndrome |
The Effectiveness of
Therapeutic Touch for the Experience of Pain
and Quality of
Life in Persons with
Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Barbara Denison MSN,
ARNP, HNC
This
research study was a prospective pretest-posttest quasi-experimental two
group design to test the effectiveness of a series of six Therapeutic Touch
(TT) treatments on the pain experience and quality of life (QOL) for persons
with fibromyalgia syndrome (FS). A convenience sampling of persons with FS
who agreed to participate in the study were randomly assigned to one of two
groups, TT treatment (n=10) or control group (n=5). The control group (CG)
sat quietly and listened to an informational tape. The dependent variables
were the experience of pain, QOL, and cutaneous skin temperature as measured
by electronic infrared thermography (EIT). Tools to measure outcomes
included short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ), Fibromyalgia Health
Assessment Questionnaire (FHAQ), and EIT. Baseline measurements of FHAQ were
done for both groups. Baseline SF-MPQ was measured in the TT group.
The findings
of this study supported that subjects who received TT had a statistically
significant decrease in the experience of pain from before to after each TT
treatment. It also supported that the TT group showed statistically
significant improvement in QOL. Some statistically significant changes in
cutaneous skin temperature and measurements of hotspots, within the TT
group, were also found. It was concluded that TT may be an effective
treatment for relieving pain and improving QOL in this specific population
of persons with FS. The findings must be interpreted cautiously due to
several methodological issues and the small sample size. EIT may show
promise as an objective measurement of change that occurs during TT.
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