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Do you want to help us create, support, educate and inform an inclusive community of healthcare professionals, and all parts of society, about the principles and practice of [...]
Do you want to help us create, support, educate and inform an inclusive community of healthcare professionals, and all parts of society, about the principles and practice of [...]
How the BHMA is promoting Creativity and Flourishing in Medicine Over 20 students published in Journal of Holistic Healthcare In a milestone achievement for the [...]
Journeys into medicine Editorial by David Peters JHH 20.3 Journeys into Medicine Identity formation and doctoring as creative paths Professional identity is a representation of [...]
Watch as Prof. David Peters, Editor in Chief of The Journal of Holistic Healthcare, discusses 'Burnout: a Sympton of Paradigm Collapse?'. This video is presented [...]
What is a holistic practitioner? And how to find one... What is a Holistic Health Practitioner? A holistic health practitioner is any health [...]
What is Holism in Healthcare? What is Holism? Holism is the theory that parts of a whole are intimately interconnected, such that they cannot exist [...]
Should medical schools be doing more to foster student wellbeing and flourishing? How can course content better prepare us for the foreseeable health challenges [...]
Realistic hope – and its role in keeping us resilient in times of crisis From JHH 16.2 - Faith, Hope & Love in Healthcare [...]
Searching the way home Mac Macartney, Writer, speaker, eco/peace activist From JHH 18.3 - Shifting the Paradigm I have explored many paths, some unwisely, [...]
We're not made up of body parts. We are whole...
I have been working with a team from Barts and the London Medical and Dental School for a year, since the start of the pandemic, to set up and deliver a support programme called Connecting Practice. Many students had signed up to volunteer in the NHS and we knew they could be exposed to upsetting and aversive situations very early in their careers, given the numbers of very sick patients and tough working conditions...
When we’re worn down by stress, anxiety and depression, it’s easy to forget the things we used to enjoy doing – or how to enjoy doing anything for that matter. While nature alone does not cure depression, anxiety or any other mental health problem, it is one part of a toolkit of coping strategies that can help us to manage our well-being. Here's how it can help...
My attention to nature began with what was at the time a fairly normal childhood of the 70s: first being born into a walking, camping, family; later the freedom to
Primal Play - making exercise fun! If exercise came in pill form, we would only be too eager to take our medicine. But [...]
The UK Government has recently released a White paper Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care, setting out legislative proposals [...]
The Human Nature Project - Bristol. Between April and October, the Human Nature Project, led by qualified psychotherapists and forest therapy guides, will make 2000 [...]
Wiki names BHMA in Top Five associations championing medical professionals. Our thanks Wiki-Ezvid (California-based Wiki) for choosing the BHMA to be in your Top [...]
By Angele Wallis, Child and adolescent psychotherapist. This article comes from the Journal of Holistic Healthcare, published by the British Holistic Medical Association. [...]
Prescribing nature is excellent value for money. A report by researchers at Leeds Beckett University reveals that prescribing contact with nature for people who [...]