Books by Dorothea Hover-Kramer
Healing Touch Guidebook: Practicing the art and science of human
caring
20th Anniversary edition (2009)
By Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., RN, D.CEP
Foreword by Jean Watson, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
This book is completely new with hundreds of current references. While based on the original methods described and taught by Janet Mentgen, it contains all of the most recent updates and organizational developments within the Healing Touch Program. In addition, it delineates the many new applications and worldwide impact of the Program.
Features Include:
- Explorations of the underlying philosophy of energy-oriented healing
- Explanations of the most current science and research related to energy healing including the best recent studies of Healing Touch
- Descriptions and summaries of the ten-step HT sequence and methods as developed from Janet Mentgen’s original work
- Discussion of ways HT models and participates in the practice of integrative medicine in health care systems
- Numerous vignettes and stories from current HT practitioners and specialists around the world demonstrating the significant impact of its person-centered caring
- Applications of HT to all aspects of the human life cycle
Contributing authors include some of the most stellar theorists in the Healing Touch Program:
- Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc., RN, HTCP/I, HTP Program Director
- Kathy Moreland Layte, MS, RN, HTCP/I, chairperson of HTP Research Advisory Committee
- Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, Ph.D., RN, HTCP/I, Founding Elder and chair of HTP certification
- James Oschman, Ph.D., Leading authority in the science of energy medicine and author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis
- Sister Rita Jean Dubrey, CSJ, MSN, RN, HTCP/I, director of the Center for Complementary Therapies, St. Mary’s Hospital, Amsterdam, NY
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the historic meeting May 1, 1989 when Janet Mentgen, Susan Morales, and Dorothea Hover-Kramer met to give the name Healing Touch to Janet’s energy healing program taught in Denver area community colleges. With that began the amazing and ongoing journey to develop curriculum materials suitable for weekend continuing education trainings that health caregivers across the country, and later internationally, could attend. Under sponsorship of the American Holistic Nurses Association, the Healing Touch Program soon became a staple in the lives of nurses and allied health professionals who wanted to offer their human connection to patients in addition to the high technology of modern medicine.
International Certification for practitioners in Healing Touch began in 1994 and continues through Janet Mentgen’s original Healing Touch Program to validate the official practice of this deeply caring modality.
To order, go to the Healing Touch Program website: www.healingtouchprogram.com