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Religion and Health: Collaboration Among Healthcare Disciplines Can Shape Future Understanding of how persons cope through religionPrimary Author: Harold G. Koenig, Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health This article from the Fall 2008 issue of Healing Spirit stresses the importance of healthcare and pastoral care professionals working together. The authors consider education, collaboration, and leadership vital to this.
Date Last Modified 09/01/2008
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Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate LivingPrimary Author: Nancy K. Morrison, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Doctors Morrison and Severino are both psychiatrists at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. In this book they "draw on neurophysiology, relationship studies, research on spiritual development, and psychotherapy to show how spirituality is intimately connected with our physical being." They "offer several clinical examples of how recognizing sacred Desire can advance a person's healing and they provide an action plan for using Desire to move from fear to love of self, others, and all creation."
Date Last Modified 04/01/2009
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Spirituality and Autonomic Cardiac ControlPrimary Author: Gary G. Berntson, Ohio State University This article from the Annals of Behavioral Medicine (volume 35, issue 2) describes a study in middle-aged and older adults that looked at the relationship between spirituality and patterns of cardiac autonomic control in 229 participants. The authors found that "spirituality is associated with an increase in overall cardiac regulatory capacity."
Date Last Modified 04/01/2008
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Spirituality and Religion in Patients with HIV/AIDSPrimary Author: Sian Cotton, University of Cincinnati Medical Center
The purpose of this study was to characterize spirituality/religion in a large and diverse sample of patients with HIV/AIDS by using several measures of spirituality/religion, to examine associations between spirituality/religion and a number of demographic, clinical, and psychosocial variables, and to assess changes in levels of spirituality over 12 to 18 months. We interviewed 450 patients from 4 clinical sites.
Date Last Modified 06/12/2008
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Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When, and WhatPrimary Author: Harold G. Koenig, Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health
From the publisher, Templeton Press, this paperback book offers:
Date Last Modified 09/01/2007
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