In the Alternative Medicine Yearbook 2017 we bring papers and recent research on psychotherapeutic interventions with children and adolescents, family therapy model for pediatricians, psychopharmacology and other interesting papers like the long-term music effect on blood pressure, heart rate, anxiety and depression. In the next section papers on virtual reality technologies for rehabilitiation and in the third section papers about children, disability and abuse, while we end up with research on virtual rehabilitation system designs. We hope this Yearbook will be of interest to the professional reader.
JJoav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Childrens Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and Professor of Public Health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the former Medical Director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel