{"id":24928,"date":"2019-08-05T18:51:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmc.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/mind-body-medicine-goes-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2019-08-28T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:10:50","slug":"mind-body-medicine-goes-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmc.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/mind-body-medicine-goes-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-body medicine goes mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"
Starting this fall, Saybrook University<\/a> will offer satellite master of science and Ph.D. programs in mind-body medicine\u00a0at the Texas Medical Center, hosted, in part, by the Institute for Spirituality and Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n The graduate degrees promote a holistic approach to wellness, emphasizing the interconnected-ness of the mind and body when treating patients and guiding overall care. Practices taught are designed to help manage stress and certain diseases, including Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Classes in yoga, meditation, nutrition, spirituality, hypnosis and biofeedback\u2014which uses electrical sensors to help individuals control certain bodily functions without drugs\u2014are just a few of the\u00a0curriculum offerings.<\/p>\n \u201cOur goal is to teach people new skills and lifestyle changes right away, when they\u2019re amenable\u2014to have a yoga practitioner right in the medical clinic,\u201d said Donald Moss<\/a>, Ph.D., dean of the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences at Saybrook, an online university based in California. \u201cPeople will trust their doctor and trust the practitioner in their doctor\u2019s office. There have been holistic practitioners for decades, but the problem has been that physicians would treat the patient with a headache with medications. Then, eventually, patients would get referred to some-one for hypnosis or biofeedback.\u201d<\/p>\n Saybrook\u2019s courses are web-based, but each degree requires students to attend \u201cresidential\u00a0conference\u201d sessions. For Houston area students, these classes will be held at the Institute for Spirituality and Health (ISH), located in the Texas Medical Center at 8100 Greenbriar Road. Ordinarily, students must travel to Oakland, California, where the university is based, for the sessions. \u201cStudents who enroll in the Houston residential conference program will take four, four-day residential conferences as fulfillment of the residential training requirements for the 40-credit M.S. in mind-body medicine and the 76-credit Ph.D. in mind-body medicine,\u201d Moss explained. \u201cA certificate in mind-body medicine will also be available.\u201d<\/p>\n *****<\/strong><\/p>\nResidential conferences in Houston<\/h6>\n
Saybrook classes begin in late August. Visit saybrook.edu\/houston<\/a>\u00a0to apply or learn more.<\/h3>\n