ABSTRACT
During the last fifteen years, a broad-based challenge has arisen to the prevailing biomedical model of health care, to the services which it dictates, the institutions in which these services are delivered, and the research and training which sustain it. Professionals concerned with public health and preventive medicine have deepened their critique of the economic, industrial, social, environmental, and institutional conditions which endanger health and frustrate effective health care. Holistic health is a broader if less precise concept. Holism has always been integral to healing. As knowledge about a holistic approach to health and illness becomes more widespread, increased numbers of clients with a greater variety of problems are coming to the centers.
