Free Lecture from this Course:
Clinical Skills 1:
Interview Skills in the Vitalist Tradition
In this first course in the Clinical Skills sequence, we first describe the personal challenges of the healing path, and then give the skill set to get accurate and complete information from your client. If you don't get the story right, then all your knowledge of plants and nutrition will be wasted. You will develop a treatment plan based on inaccurate or partial information, and clinical failure will be the result. Learning interview techniques, what questions to ask, and when to listen are crucial skills for your herbal practice. This course will give you the knowledge and confidence to interview your clients in a professional setting.
If you continue on with our clinical skills sequence (Clinical Skills 2, 3, & 4) we will explore the psycho-spiritual challenges of the healer's path, then move through the technical aspects of the interview process, recognition of lifestyle, humoral and energetic patterns in the case, recognition of common nutrient deficiencies, case analysis to come up with the treatment plan, and finally example outcomes of these methods with details of 28 case studies.
Lessons
This course has 4 sections:
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Healing as a Spiritual Path
- Interview Skills in the Vitalist Tradition
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Getting the Story Right
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The Art of the Follow-up
Course Materials
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23 audio files totaling over 7 hours
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39 pages of notes & slides
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A PDF library of 17 resources and classical herbal texts totaling over 1000 pages, including 9 different intake forms or assessment questionnaires, supplemental notes on red-flag symptoms, sleep debt, and assessment of energetics, and three reference textbooks from the Physiomedical tradition of herbal energetics.
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Total storage 520 MB
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The recorded lectures were delivered by NAIMH Director Paul Bergner in classroom settings, edited and supplemented with studio portions.
