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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

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

Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice

Primary Author: Kristen L. Mauk, Valparaiso University

From the back cover of this textbook:

"Focusing on spirituality as an inherent component of effective nursing care, this text presents an unbiased view of the nature of human spirituality apart from religion. The text offers a unique interdisciplinary and inter-religious perspective--representing a range of Eastern and Western religious traditions--while addressing lifespan considerations and belief systems within the nursing process framework. Readable, interactive chapters apply the content clinically and highlight timely research on spirituality and health. Each chapter includes case studies, critical thinking questions, and personal reflection questions. Website references are also included."

Includes chapters on:

- Spiritual development
- Influences of religion and culture on nursing
- Spiritual Assessment
- Collaboration
- Nursing research
- The nurse's spiritual health

Date Last Modified 12/01/2003 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