The nurse asked by a client to contrast conventional Western medicine with alternative therapy would correctly respond, "Conventional medicine focuses on curing symptoms, whereas alterna-tive therapy is concerned with:
1. culture-bound illnesses."
2. building healer prestige."
3. healing the total person."
4. the importance of science."
ANS: 3
Healing the whole person is the focus of most alternative therapy. Unifying themes among these therapies are the person's inherent recuperative ability, the importance of self-esteem, and the in-fluence of spiritual and emotional beliefs on health. 1. This is not the whole focus of alternative therapies. 2. Alternative therapy is client-centered. 4. Pure science is not the focus of alternative therapy; in fact, most alternative methods have not been researched.
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