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Spiritual Care to Elderly and Dying Loved Ones

Primary Author: Kevin Quiles,

This book seeks to the provide caretakers with the necessary tools to develop a warm approach toward the experiences of a loved one, friend, or patient. It covers topics such as cancer, dementia, deep loneliness, and loss of purpose.

Date Last Modified 09/01/2009 Book

Spiritual Caregiving: Healthcare as a Ministry

Primary Author: Verna Benner Carson, Staff Builders Home Health and Hospice

"In this book, Carson and Koenig examine the state of the healthcare system with the goal of providing healthcare professionals and caregivers the inspiration and practical tools to re-claim their sense of purpose."

Chapters include:

1. Spiritual Caregiving: Healthcare as a Ministry
2. The State of the Current Healthcare System
3. Envisioning the Ideal
4. Preparation for Spiritual Caregiving
5. Providing Spiritual Care
6. Giving Spiritual Care: The Patient with Chronic Illness and Pain
7. Giving Spiritual Care: The Dying Patient
8. Spiritual Care for Special Populations
9. Nurturing the Self: Nurturing the Spirit
10. A David-and-Goliath Match: Taking On the System

Date Last Modified 05/01/2004 Book

Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice

Primary Author: Verna Benner Carson, Staff Builders Home Health and Hospice

The second edition of this paperback book provides "perspectives on new research in the spiritual dimensions of nursing care, applying nursing theory to spiritual care, and addressing the spiritual needs of both nurses and patients."

Date Last Modified 10/01/2008 Book

Spirituality and Mental Health Care: Rediscovering a 'Forgotten' Dimension

Primary Author: John Swinton, King's College, University of Aberdeen

This book "explores the connections between mental health or illness and spirituality and draws on these to provide practical guidance for people working in the mental health field."

Chapters include:

1. What is spirituality?
2. The neglect of the spiritual
3. Spirituality and mental health care: Exploring the literature
4. Living with meaninglessness: The lived experience of spirituality in the context of depression
5. Enabling spiritual healing: Developing an understanding of spiritual care

Date Last Modified 01/01/2001 Book

Spirituality, health, and wholeness: an introductory guide for health care

Primary Author: Henry H. Lamberton, Loma Linda School of Medicine

Textbook that explores the principles of spiritual care as applied to clinical practice. Intended to help clinicians learn to respond effectively and appropriately to spiritual needs in a health care setting. It includes chapters on:

- A model of whole person care
- Exploring the mind, body, and spirit connection
- Spirituality and coping with trauma
- Faith, illness, and meaning
- Spiritual care: basic principles
- Spiritual care of the dying and bereaved
- Intercultural engagement in healthcare
- Working with difficult patients

Date Last Modified 08/18/2004 Book