After reviewing the attached Websites:

Create a 12-20 (not including the title and reference slides) slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation on a methodology you create for assessing reliability of an Internet source of CAM information. Include detailed speaker notes and reference citations.

Describe how a consumer’s attitudes and beliefs about CAM could hinder objective assessments of reliability and credibility in CAM.

Create five objective criteria to judge the credibility and reliability of a source of information on CAM.

Select a Complementary Health care therapy or modality, and research the Internet for websites on this therapy. Be sure you use a therapy and not a Healing System–see chart from week one. Chosing a Healing System will be an automatic -5 point deduction. Then, perform the following:

• Describe the therapy.
• Examine the type of training or education that is required.
• Discuss whether a license or certification is required to practice this therapy.
• Identify the overseeing or regulating organization for this therapy. 

Using your criteria, review one of the websites and determine how reliable the site is for CAM information. 

• Explain how you reached your conclusion about the website. Consider using a grading scale or grid for this exercise.
• Describe steps the website could take to increase its credibility. 

Present the Assessing Reliability and Credibility of CAM ResourcesPresentation.

• For Local Campus students, these may be (at the discretion of faculty) oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentations.
• For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®presentations with speaker notes.

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