Complementary & Alternative Medicine for Mental Health

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MIND-BODY TREATMENTS


 yoga for depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, and schizophrenia
 meditation for all depression, anxiety, and PTSD


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


This outline has been developed by Mental Health America (MHA) from the principal available
evidence-based sources of information concerning “complementary,” “alternative,”
“integrative,” “natural,” and often self-administered treatments for mental health conditions.
Mental Health America acknowledges the generous assistance of David Mischoulon, M.D.,
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who has reviewed the
manuscript, but who bears no responsibility for the information, which is derived mainly from
published sources. Syntheses and evaluations of the information by MHA are its responsibility
alone. MHA also bears complete responsibility for its decisions to shorten and redraft
descriptions of information from the sources. Only quoted text should be presumed to be
verbatim.


SOURCES


MHA began with the limited information accepted by the National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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