CASE TAKING - ALASTAIR GRAY

 

Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences have fully acredited medical and pharmacy degrees as well as the only Bachelor of Homeopathic Medical Sciences course.We are proud to present to you a workshop by an internationally renowned homeopathy teacher and best selling author at a greatly subsidised price.

Family physicians and medical students will find that this workshop can give them an added dimension to their case taking skills and give them an in depth understanding of " The Patient not the Disease".

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BIODATA: ALASTAIR GRAY

MSc (UK) BAHons (NZ) ADH (NZ) DSH (UK) PCH (UK) PCHom (Malaysia)

Alastair Gray heads up the homeopathy department nationally at Endeavour College of Natural Health. A dual sector role that involves running an advanced diploma in the vocational education sector and a degree in the higher education sector, he is responsible for quality of the curriculum and the academic integrity of the programs. 

He has lectured under and post-graduate homeopathy for over a decade. A regular seminar and conference presenter in New Zealand, Malaysia, the USA, Ireland, Canada, the UK, India, Thailand and Australia, we also delivers webinars worldwide.

His latest book Method (2011) was released at the 2011 LIGA conference to complement Case Taking (2010), Volume I in The Landscape of Homeopathic Medicine series. In addition, Alastair has published four books and numerous articles on the provings of Moreton Bay Fig, Tea Tree, Waratah, Tar Tree, Liquorice, Cactus, Kowhai, Kauri, Tuberculinum, Bacilinum, Mosquito, Cockroach, Toad, Seahorse, Pearl, Irukandji, Medusa, Box Jellyfish and White Tailed Spider. 

Passionate about instructional design, educational technology in his academic and teaching work, for 20 years Alastair has run a general natural medicine practice in Sydney Australia. Clinical practice remains a significant feature of his work with a focus in the treatment of anxiety, depression, addiction and men’s health.

Details of the Program:

Case Taking

The Landscape of Homeopathic Medicine Series

Understanding Different Clinical Approaches to Case Taking

Best practice and creating meaning in the consulting room

Cyberjaya

2012

Alastair Gray

Topics

1.    Introductions

2.    Understanding the Three Traditions of Case Taking in Homeopathy

3.    Summaries

4.    Case Examples

Friday

29/6/ 2012

8.00pm -10.00 pm

1          Introductions

·         Alastair?

·         The emphasis of my training in homeopathy

·         What we will be doing in this seminar and why

·         Key cases and relationships that have shaped my understanding and actions in the clinic.

o   Key Cases

§  Case of PP

§  Case of the old lawyer

§  Case of PC

o   Key Relationships

·         Questions and Discussion

·         Understanding the purpose of case taking

Saturday

30/6.2012

 9.00 am – 5.00 pm

2    Understanding the Three Traditions of Case Taking in Homeopathy

2.1 Getting the Information

2.1.1 Best Practice in the Hahnemannian Tradition

The evolution of the case-taking process from Hahnemann to the present day

·         The purpose of this is to provide context. Modern students in their student and training clinics and then in their own practices ask specific questions yet have no idea why they are asking them. This session is a sweep through Homeopathic history and remind people who said what and why.

·         Hahnemann’s directives 

Augmentations to the process

·         Moving on from Hahnemann

·         Subsequent directives from key authors

·         Why did we move on? Who lead it? Why? What was wrong with what we were doing before? Was it broken?

·         Practical session on the Order of taking the case

·        Main Complaint – ‘How does that leave you feeling?’ – psychological symptoms in general – systemic history – finally Generals

Exercises

Ideas and observations of order and method of taking the case.

Questions and Points form participants

2.2       Getting to the Centre of the Case

2.2.1 Best Practice Post Jungian

·         The urge to reach a central point

·         What is this urge?

·         Why do we have it?

·         Where did it come from?

The influence of non-homeopaths on taking the homeopathic case

·         Good and Bad influences

·         Swedenborg

·         Freud

·         Jung

·         Schmidt

·         Reich

·         Rogers

·         Ledermann

·         Buber

·         Others

The value of integrating the influence of therapy work

Limitations of being too influenced by psychotherapists

Sunday

1/7/2012

 9.00 am -1,00 pm

2.3       Being with the Patient

2.3.1 Best practice person-centred case taking

Techniques to augment case taking and bring the chronic disease into the present

The use of imagery in homeopathic practice.

§  How to use simple ideas from art therapy to gain information for the homeopathic case.

The use of humour in case taking

3          Summaries

Exploration of the qualities and attributes of the contemporary case taker

Supervision

How I approach cases

Lessons from the clinics

Where it goes seamlessly well

Sunday2.30-5.00 pm

Case Examples and Best Practice in Homeopathy and Homeopathic Case Taking

Video cases from the clinic

The ease and simplicity of homeopathy

The scope and breadth of homeopathy

Research

Studying homeopathy