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Religion and Health: Collaboration Among Healthcare Disciplines Can Shape Future Understanding of how persons cope through religion

Primary 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 Article

Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living

Primary 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 Book

Spirituality and Autonomic Cardiac Control

Primary 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 Article

Spirituality and Religion in Patients with HIV/AIDS

Primary 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.

Most patients with HIV/AIDS belonged to an organized religion and use their religion to cope with their illness. Patients with greater optimism, greater self-esteem, greater life satisfaction, minorities, and patients who drink less alcohol tend to be both more spiritual and religious. Spirituality levels remain stable over 12 to 18 months.

This was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine

Date Last Modified 06/12/2008 Article

Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When, and What

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

From the publisher, Templeton Press, this paperback book offers:

- A practical handbook for physicians, medical students, and residents seeking guidance on integrating spirituality into patient care in a clear easy-to-use format

- A multifaith approach to integrating spirituality into patient care

- Key resources for medical professionals to develop further skills in this significant area

- A ten-session model course curriculum on spirituality and healthcare for medical students and residents, with suggestions on how to adapt it for the training of nurses, social workers, and rehabilitation specialists.

Date Last Modified 09/01/2007 Book, Course curriculum