Health Care Provider Counseling
Healthcare provider counseling involves the provision of education, support, and consultative counseling to the healthcare provider in an attempt to indirectly influence patient outcomes. This type of intervention aims to determine if focused interventions with the healthcare provider can result in demonstrated improvement in the patient outcomes and symptoms that are being addressed through counseling providers.
Healing Touch
Healing touch is an energy-based therapeutic approach to healing (Poznanski-Hutchinson, 1999; Mentgen, 1996). Healing touch uses touch to influence the body’s energy system, thus affecting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and healing (Mentgen, 2001). The goal of healing touch is to restore balance in clients’ energy systems, thereby placing clients in a position to self-heal.
Mentgen, J. (1996). The clinical practice of healing touch. Imprint, 43, 33–36.
Haptotherapy
Haptotherapy is a type of complementary therapy that involves the use of touch to achieve mental relaxation, as well as interventions, such as talking and counseling, to assist individuals in getting in touch with their feelings. It is based on haptonomy, referred to as a science that combines thoughts, feelings, and words through a “psycho-tactile” contact.
Hangeshashinto (TJ-14)
Hangeshashinto, a traditional Japanese medicine, contains seven herbal crude drugs: pinelliae tuber, Scutellariae Radix, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Zizyphi fructus, Ginseng Radix, Zingiberis Processum Rhizoma, and Coptidis Rhizoma. It reduces prostaglandin E2 levels and affects cyclooxygenase activity. Hangeshashinto is used in Japan to treat gastritis, stomatitis, and inflammatory diarrhea and has been studied in patients with cancer as a treatment for chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis.
Hand Hygiene With Alcohol Sanitizer
The use of an alcohol sanitizer for hand hygiene was examined in terms of effectiveness in prevention of infection. Hand hygiene has been identified as a key factor in infection prevention by care providers and is a component of patient and informal caregiver education in prevention of infection for at-risk patients with cancer.
Haloperidol
Haloperidol is an antipsychotic. It works by decreasing excitement in the brain as a dopamine antagonist. Haloperidol also is used to control motor and verbal tics in adults and children who have Tourette syndrome. In addition, haloperidol is used to treat severe behavioral problems, such as explosive, aggressive behavior or hyperactivity in children who cannot be treated with psychotherapy or other medications.
Guided Imagery/Imagery
Imagery involves the use of mental visualization and imagination to enhance relaxation and alter specific experiences. It may include direct suggestion. Individuals may use recorded scripts to guide the creation of mental images. Guided imagery can integrate techniques founded in multiple psychological theories and hypnotherapy, and it is often combined with the technique of progressive muscle relaxation.
Guarana (Paullinia cupana)
Guarana (Paullinia cupana) is a plant native to the central Amazon and has been used medicinally for centuries. It has a popular reputation of being a stimulant and an aphrodisiac, as well as exhibiting gastric-protective effects. Guarana contains caffeine and other similar chemicals and has been used for the treatment of diarrhea, weight loss, and fatigue. Evaluation in patients with cancer has been performed related to the symptoms of fatigue, hot flashes, sleep-wake disturbances, and depression.
Group Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy involves a variety of approaches to structured therapeutic interaction between a trained professional and a client addressing problems that are psychological in nature. Group psychotherapy involves providing this therapy in a setting that includes a group of patients.
Grape Juice
Juice from grapes is rich in flavonoids, which have antioxidant properties and act as scavengers of free radicals. This may inhibit related damage to cells. The effect of grape juice ingestion as an adjunct to antiemetics was tested in patients with cancer for management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Flavonoids were hypothesized to reduce the severity of chemotherapy-related cell damage, thereby reducing one of the possible stimuli for CINV.