Abstract
Because complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies are rarely provided for children and adolescents, clinicians may find that making CAM therapy referrals is problematic for their young clients. With the exception of children's yoga classes, there are few other CAM therapies for children. Even exercise programs (physical education) are disappearing from schools. Parents, however, can provide many of these therapies—for example, daily massages—or can engage their children in exercise programs such as Pilates and fast walking or at least arrange and supervise some form of exercise. Professional guidance and referrals would be needed for the more psychological therapies such as hypnosis and biofeedback, and perhaps then only for the more difficult pediatric conditions, such as obesity, ADHD, and migraine headaches, that have not responded to other therapies. Like adults, children can benefit psychologically and physically from CAM therapies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)