HSC CMO4: Complementary therapies and alternative medicine for health and social care

1. Understand the origins of complementary therapies and alternative medicine

• 1.1. Summarise the origins of complementary therapies and alternative medicine

2. Understand the use of complementary therapies and alternative medicine

• 2.1. Explain treatments within complementary therapies and alternative medicine
• 2.2. Explain the possible contraindications to the use of complementary therapies and alternative medicine
• 2.3. Analyse reasons for the increase in use of complementary therapies and alternative medicine

3. Understand the relationship between complementary therapies and alternative medicine and conventional treatments

• 3.1. Evaluate attitudes towards the use of complementary therapies and alternative medicine within mainstream healthcare delivery
• 3.2. Analyse the impact of complementary therapies and alternative medicine against a conventional treatment for a health condition

4. Understand the professionalisation of complementary therapies and alternative medicine

• 4.1. Summarise the debate around evidence-based practice in relation to complementary therapies and alternative medicine
• 4.2. Explain the need for regulation of complementary therapies and alternative medicine