| There is an increasing trend, these days, towards 'Alternative' approaches to therapies, treatments and interventions. This is not too surprising, given that service users have become dissatisfied, disillusioned, distrustful and disgusted, with the modern, depersonalising trend in the establishment 'professional services'. Modern professions, with their 'over rational' an rather 'defensive, approach to service provision, have alienated the people they serve. As the theory and techniques of care, nursing, teaching and community services generally, become more purified and inappropriately 'generalised', so the 'human' element has been lost. Alternative approaches to health, community and social care, are an attempt to redress this. Alternative, or paraprofessional services, tend to seek to redress the losses that the intellectualisation of the professions has taken away. | Blank
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