Aromatherapy: A Primer for Health Professionals: The Essential Guide to Essential Oils

Healthcare professionals seldom receive training in alternative therapies in their graduate courses.Aromatherapy is a fascinating source of relief from varied ailments.Rich in history and use, aromatherapy may have clinical utility in everyday therapeutic practice for your clients.This book provides the clinical practitioner with a quick overview of some common uses for this wonderful aid to healing.Understand this specifically: This book will NOT provide enough information for health professionals, patients, clients, interested parties, or causal readers of this book with enough information to become an aromatherapist!Indeed, this is a PRIMER! It is a fun book to read, an interesting book to have in a health professional's waiting room or office, and is intended to spark conversation about the wonderful gifts that one finds in AROMATHERAPY.

Thomas Smith is one of a handful of pharmacists in the world with an advanced degree in psychology. An adjunct professor on the faculties of the Saint Louis University School of Nursing and the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (where Tom has taught Doctoral Nursing and Pharmacy students) as well as previously being a Faculty instructor at the University of Phoenix (teaching psychology), Tom has also lectured on numerous topics to thousands of healthcare, educational, and lay persons throughout the United States on topics as varying as psychopharmacology, dissociative identity disorder, migraine headaches, chronic pain, bipolar disorder, complimentary and alternative (integrative) therapies, autism, bipolar disorder, and others. Still a practicing therapist AND a practicing pharmacist, Tom and his lovely wife the attorney Barbara Smith (a co-presenter with Tom on issues of healthcare legal issues) live in a small town just south of Indianapolis with a passel full of critters.