Identify and discuss ways in which people's beliefs about health and healing can influence the therapeutic relationship. Use case study material from the CD-Rom to illustrate your answer.

People's beliefs about their health and wellbeing are not fixed, but are constantly changing, some people see health as being the absence of illness; others have a contradictory view that being healthy means to be able to cope with everyday stresses in order to be able to get on with life in general. Using case studies of cancer patients receiving treatment from both CAM and orthodox medicine, this essay will identify and discuss people's beliefs …

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