Ethical guidelines from the International Society for Holistic Health

The guidelines are built in the vision and aim of the ISHH, which is:

•     To promote holistic health awareness among health care providers, organisations and the general public

•     To foster and stimulate the highest quality of health care provision in all communities

Holistic health care is the art and science of healing the whole person – body, mind and spirit by prevention and treatment, to promote optimal health.

The practitioner should build his practice on:

1.      Compassion

2.      Mutual trust

3.      Respect for the patient’s integrity

4.      Human rights

5.      Truth and justice to the patient and society

6.      National laws

7.      Informed consent

8.      Confidentiality

The practitioner should:

1.      Give information regarding the purpose, content, duration and cost of the treatment, and how to complain about the treatment

2.      Build the practice on evidence 

3.      Use methods that are validated

4.      Use methods one can master

5.      Use methods that don’t harm

6.      When trying out methods, the concern for the patient is paramount

7.      Keep records (10 years) that patient’s can read

8.      Monitor and evaluate results

9.      Do research, develop and test new methods of diagnosis and treatment

10. Develop and improve one’s practice

11. Use one`s ressources fairly

12. Develop the tool (oneself)

The practitioner must not:

1.      Disrespect the patient’s right to chose (treatment, life or death)

2.      Assist actively in ending life

3.      Exploit the patient economically, philosophically, religiously, sexually or in any other way. The consent of the patient does not free from this.

4.      Engage in a sexual relationship with the patient

5.      Promise cure or hinder the patient receiving help from others

The relationship to collegues:

1.      Respectful

2.      Misconduct from other practitioners is raised directly in a caring way; secondly with authorities

3.      Don’t criticize colleagues in front of patients