HEALTH
COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

AIM:
the aim is to help you to develop understanding of the role of complementary therapies in health and social care and their effectiveness in maintaining health and wellbeing.
TASK 1
as a care worker in a specific care setting

a) explain what you understand by reliability of information during complementary therapies.
b)give an example of complementary therapies to explain how you will analyse the reliability of sources of information on complementary therapies.
c)explain what you understand by validity of information during complementary therapies.
d) give an example of complementary therapies to explain how you will analyse the validity of sources of information of your choice on complementary therapies
e) give two examples of service users ,which the application of reliability and validity of sources of infor mation on complementary therapies could be applied to.
TASK 2
from your own personal experience.
a) explain the benefits and disadvantages of two complementry therapies of your choice.
b) explain the importance of these benefits to te service users of your choice.
c)explan how you think that the service users might gain the access to clamims the benefits of your chosen complementary therapies.
TASK3
as a care worker in health and social care sector:
a)you need t o make recommendations bases on th evidence gathered for the use of complementary therapies of your choice and within specific service users who are using health and social care services.
b)explain your future exectatins on the use of complementary therapies of your choice for a particular service user.

TASK4
as a care worker that support the use of complementary therapies.
a)explain what you understand on the current regulation systems for the us of complementary therapies
b)explain the effectiveness of the regulation on the complementary therapies of your choice
c)evaluate the importance of regulation in controlling the use of complementary therapies
d)what are your own opinion/ideas on the future of regulation in monitoring the complementary therapies to prevent accident or injury to the users of the services?
TASK5
as a cre worker in a specific care industry.
a)you need to suggest on how government should improve the use of complementary therapies of your choice
b)give examples with a specifc service user to explain your recommendation for improving regulatory systems for the use of complementary therapies.