Four hugs a day using therapeutic touch.
Imagine a prescription which prescribed four hugs per day to a patient suffering from depression. Hanning described findings that four hugs per day was an antidote for depression, eight hugs per day would achieve mental stability and twelve hugs per day would achieve real psychological growth. If this is the case, touch has a greater significance than most of us would realise. The following assignment was written whilst I was undertaking ENB 176 using reflective practice to explain the benefits or problems in using certain techniques.
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D000328:Adult; D004107:Dilatation and Curettage / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D019124:Therapeutic Touch