I have some good news! During the National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Advisory Council Meeting on September 19, 2025, the Director announced that they have decided to add a Spiritual domain to their whole person health model! Discussion about … [Read more...]
NCCIH’s Decision to Not Add a Spiritual Domain to Their Whole Person Health Model
The National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) conducts and supports research and provides information about complementary health products and practices in the context of whole person health. This National Institutes of Health (NIH) agency has been studying … [Read more...]
Prayer is Excluded as a Form of Complementary Health Practice by Our Federal Health Agencies
Prayer is no longer considered a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practice by the National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), a federal government agency in the Department of Health and Human Services. It was removed in the 2007 … [Read more...]
Is Spirituality a Domain of Whole Person Health?
In May of this year, my blog post titled Whole Person Health and Our Federal Government expressed my concern that a key government health agency's model for Whole Person Health did not include a Spiritual domain. I expressed my concern that the National Center for Complementary … [Read more...]
Whole Person Health and Our Federal Government
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is the Federal Government’s lead agency for scientific research on complementary and integrative health approaches. They have created a strategy to research Whole Person Health. On Friday, May 12th, 2023 at … [Read more...]
Spirituality and Health in the Federal Government
Spiritual health is not recognized as a component of individual wellbeing by our federal government. This exclusion of the spiritual dimension not only impacts negatively on all aspects of personal wellbeing, but on the public health of our nation and its … [Read more...]
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