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Health Care & Spirituality: Listening, Assessing, Caring

Primary Author: Richard B. Gilbert, The World Pastoral Care Center

This book is an anthology covering healthcare professionals and the healthcare work place. It includes chapters on:

- The Roman Catholic patient
- The Jewish patient
- The Native American patient
- The Male patient
- The Female patient
- The Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgendered patient
- The Chronically Ill patient
- The HIV-AIDS patient
- The Alzheimer's patient
- The Obstetrics patient
- The Trauma patient
- The Addicted patient
- The Victim of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Date Last Modified 01/01/2000 Book

Healthcare and Spirituality

Primary Author: Stephen P. Kliewer, Oregon Health and Science University

This is an introductory textbook that emphasizes the need to integrate spiritual issues in the process of healthcare. It uses the biopsychosocial model and includes chapters on:

- Healing, cure, and the whole person
- Toward a model of integration
- Exploring spirituality
- The impact of spirituality
- The objectives of integrating spirituality and medicine
- Spiritual assessment
- Spiritual interventions

Date Last Modified 12/31/2005 Book

Integrating Spirituality Into Treatment: Resources for Practitioners

Primary Author: William R. Miller, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Academic textbook intended for psychologists, psychotherapists, behavioral therapists, ministers or chaplains, and others who have an ongoing relationship with patients.

Includes chapters on:

- Accessing spirituality
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Spirituality and 12-step programs
- Spiritual surrender
- Acceptance and forgiveness
- Evoking hope
- Serenity
- Diversity Training in Spiritual and Religious Issues

Date Last Modified 06/01/1999 Book

The Medical Manual for Religio-Cultural Competence: Caring for Religiously Diverse Populations

Primary Author: Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

This book "details how religious traditions and practices affect medical decisions in ten major world religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Shinto, Traditional Chinese, American Indian & Alaska Natives and Afro-Caribbean." It is a guidebook for medical practice.

Date Last Modified 12/01/2009 Book

Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet

Primary Author: Harold Koenig, Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health

This paperback book "provides an overview of the relationship between health care and religion" and focuses "on the scientific basis for integrating spirituality into medicine." Koenig summarizes major trends, controversies, and recent research.

Date Last Modified 09/01/2008 Book