The "Healing Touch Guidebook, Practicing the Art and Science of Human Caring", by Dorothea Hover-Kramer, has just been released.

This book is the newest and most complete text about Healing Touch and is part of the celebration of the twenty-year anniversary since the founding of Healing Touch in 1989. The Healing Touch Guidebook may be an opening, a beginning, for interested readers from all walks of life. It is intended to help expand and deepen understanding of the healing process in both newcomers and seasoned practitioners. No matter where you are in your own journey of discovery, this work is an invitation to widen your exploration of the many facets of Healing Touch and its conceptual framework with focus on theory, science, research, and actual practice. Purchase through the Healing Touch Store.

Contributing authors include some of the most stellar theorists in the Healing Touch Program:

• Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc., RN, HTCP/I, HTP Program Director
• Kathy Moreland Layte, MS, RN, HTCP/I, chairperson of HTP Research Advisory Committee
• Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, Ph.D., RN, HTCP/I, Founding Elder and chair of HTP certification
• James Oschman, Ph.D., Leading authority in the science of energy medicine and author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis
• Sister Rita Jean DuBrey, CSJ, MSN, RN, HTCP/I, director of the Center for Complementary Therapies, St. Mary’s Hospital, Amsterdam, NY

This book is completely new with hundreds of current references. While based on the original methods described and taught by Janet Mentgen, it contains all of the most recent updates and organizational developments within the Healing Touch Program. In addition, it delineates the many new applications and worldwide impact of the Program.

Features Include:

• Explorations of the underlying philosophy of energy-oriented healing

• Explanations of the most current science and research related to energy healing including the best recent studies of Healing Touch
• Descriptions and summaries of the ten-step HT sequence and methods as developed from Janet Mentgen’s original work
• Discussion of ways HT models and participates in the practice of integrative medicine in health care systems
• Numerous vignettes and stories from current HT practitioners and specialists around the world demonstrating the significant impact of its person-centered caring
• Applications of HT to all aspects of the human life cycle

Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., RN, D.CEP, author, nurse and psychotherapist, is a Founding Elder of the Healing Touch Program. She is the cofounder of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and author of six other books about energy therapies including her most recent, Second Chance at Your Dream.

Endorsements for the new 2009 Healing Touch Guidebook

“Healing Touch Guidebook provides Janet Mentgen’s vision for a healing modality that is now part of the recognized field of Energy Medicine. Dorothea is a master communicator as well as a wise, founding elder in the practice of energy therapies. The work is written from a comprehensive body-mind-spirit perspective that expands the existing science and art of Healing Touch. It offers new insights for practice, education, and research with guidelines to bring the modality to the forefront of healthcare.”

—Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, Author, Holistic Nursing: A handbook for practice (5th ed) and Florence Nightingale: Mystic vi-sionary, healer.

“The new Healing Touch Guidebook, written with a deep spirit of love and service that sings from each page, provides a clear and up-to-date overview of the Healing Touch Program and its many applications in creating a true, healing healthcare system.”

—Janet F. Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN, author of I Am a Woman Finding My Voice

“Much more than a comprehensive how-to book, the new Healing Touch Guidebook gives insight into the science and nature of the human biofield. Healing Touch is brought to life in vivid real-life cases exemplifying the principles and practices in the stage-wise progression towards mastery that culminates in the self-care and spiritual development of the HT practitioner. This is a true sourcebook and sets the standard in the field.”

—Gregory Nicosia, MS, PhD, D.CEP (Diplomate, Comprehensive Energy Psychology), President, Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology

“An inspiring and comprehensive vision of the role of Healing Touch both for personal well-being and in the expanding role of energy healing in integrative health care.”

—Barbara Stone, PhD, LISW, D.CEP, Author of Invisible Roots: How healing past life trauma can liberate your present

“Dorothea has put together the most comprehensive and authoritative book available to date about the first twenty years of Healing Touch (HT). It is a fascinating read for all interested in energy medicine as part of the study of spirituality and health. After a foreword by distinguished professor Jean Watson, Dorothea presents an amazing portrait of HT, divided into four sections and fifteen chapters. All that is followed by an excellent bibliography and appendices and a useful index. “We would all be well-served if other complementary and alternative modalities would provide equally well-developed coverage of their experiences during the beginnings of the twenty-first century.”

—Bob Nunley, Ph.D., Professor and Dean of Faculty, Holos University

“This special collection brings together the latest in developments of the Healing Touch Program, worldwide leaders in energy medicine. The text is a comprehensive overview of theory and practice of energy medicine and Healing Touch written by a collection of author experts in the field, including practical applications in a user-friendly guide for multiple audiences. What I have been teaching, researching and writing about for thirty plus years is what HT practitioners put into practice every day.”

—Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, Distinguished Professor of Nursing and Murchinson-Scoville Endowed Chair in Caring Science, University of Colorado Denver, Founder Watson Caring Science Institute www.watsoncaringscience.org

“Dr. Hover-Kramer’s Healing Touch Guidebook celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this effective, non-invasive, and holistic healing art has flowered into a powerful force in the healthcare arena. This book provides a thorough overview of the many branches of the growing Healing Touch tree, including its foundation in the ethics of caring and its scientific roots. She reviews the many HT applications and celebrates the manner in which HT is being used to address problems occurring across the life span and adapted by practitioners across the planet. The Healing Touch movement has also inspired other energy-based healing practices, such as energy psychology. Like HT, energy psychology works with the human energetic matrix. Together HT and energy psychology offer new and realistic hope for change and transform-tion...from debilitating trauma to living normal lives again. “In this book, Dr. Hover-Kramer rightly emphasizes the central role of practitioner self-care. Certainly, after twenty years of transforming people’s lives and hearts, HT has earned the right to be included in any serious discussion about the future of healthcare. Congratulations to the Healing Touch Program community for reaching this milestone!”

—Larry Stoler, PhD, D.CEP, Psychologist, WholeHealth Chicago, Past President, The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, Certfied LifeForce Tao of Medical Qigong practitioner

“The new 2009 Healing Touch Guidebook by Dorothea Hover-Kramer provides a concise, easy-to-read, but comprehensive review of the history, background, science, methodology, healthcare application and future of Healing Touch. The complexity of this task, all delivered within parameters for easy access for the reader, would appear to be daunting, but in fact the material is delivered in such an accessible fashion that one comes away from the book feeling that they really know the subject. I’ve lectured at the Healing Touch Program’s organization’s annual meeting, written an article for their online magazine and experienced the technique from a number of practitioners. Now, however, I feel that I really have a grasp of all the nuances of this wonderful therapeutic technique.”

—Robert Scaer, MD, Author of The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, dis-sociation and disease, and The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden wounds and hu-man resiliency

“The Healing Touch Guidebook is an extraordinary resource for healers, healthcare professionals and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the dynamics involved in Healing Touch. This book is a must-read for those interested in the research, conceptual underpinnings, and practical application of Healing Touch. It is certain to become one of the seminal, foundational books that address subtle, energy healing.”

—Lucia Thornton, RN, MSN, AHN-BC Past-President American Holis-tic Nurses Association

“This book is the definitive guide to the Healing Touch Program (HTP). It will soon become the standard text for the first accredited modality in the field of Energy Medicine (EM) -- a key component of the new specialty of Integrative Holistic Medicine (IHM). Dorothea, an extraordinary energy healer herself, has woven together a beautiful tapestry of science, technique, application, and ethics, along with the expertise of HTP and EM pioneers, and infused it with the inspired vision of HTP founder, Janet Mentgen. It is both a practical and comprehensive guide to healing with love, as well as a wonderful gift for healthcare practitioners including anyone interested in self-care.”

—Rob Ivker, DO, ABIHM, HTCP, Co-founder and Past-President, American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine; Past-President, American Holistic Medical Association; Former Assistant Clinical Professor, University of CO School of Medicine; Author of best-selling, Sinus Survival.