Introduction to Healing Touch
Marilyn Bach, RN, MS, CS, CHTP and Alexa Umbreit, RN,C, MS, CHTP

Welcome! This online module provides an introduction to Healing Touch, a type of complementary therapy that uses a number of hands-on, energy-based techniques to clear, stimulate, and align the human energy field of another person in order to facilitate the healing process. This module will take approximately one hour to complete. (You don't have to do it all at once.)

In this overview, you will find:

• An explanation of Healing Touch therapy, how it originated, and its goals
  
• Reasons why an understanding of this type of therapy is important for healthcare professionals
  
• An overview of the underlying mechanism of how Healing Touch is believed to work
  
• An exploration of the most salient research studies on Healing Touch
  
• Characteristics of a typical Healing Touch session
  

This module is not intended to prepare you to practice Healing Touch.

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