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A Time for Listening and Caring Spirituality and the Care of the Chronically Ill and Dying Primary Author: Christina M. Puchalski, GWish: The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health A thoughtful, informative, and practical guide for anyone involved in caring for the seriously and chronically ill or dying. This book covers how spiritual care can be integrated into traditional caregiving. Part one discusses aspects of spirituality, such as presence, ethics, and relationships. Part two delves into a number of specific religious and theological traditions. Part three offers practical applications and tools, including storytelling, psychotherapy, dance, music, and the arts. Part four focuses on patients' stories and reflections. Date Last Modified 06/01/2006 Book

The Unbroken Circle Primary Author: James L. Brooks, M.Div., Duke University Institute on Care at the End of Life This is already listed on your SOERCE page. Date Last Modified 03/31/2009 Book

The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief Primary Author: James L Brooks, Duke University The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief is a new resource filled with practical tools and guidance to help congregations care for people facing illness, dying and bereavement. Developed by the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life and written by Rev. James L. Brooks, it provides clergy, lay leaders, parish nurses and chaplains with an inspiring vision, easy-to-use tools, specific tips, and hundreds of additional resources. The Toolkit starts with a call to action and provides templates for congregations to plan a discussion of these issues. It also includes guidelines for support groups, information on how to offer spiritual support to families, and outlines for educational programs and liturgical services. The Toolkit is designed to be in sync with the self-organization of congregations, including organizing illness, death, and grief information specifically geared towards adult and child education, congregational care, and worship, facility, and clergy leadership. Published in the summer of 2009, The Unbroken Circle has been embraced by congregationally-based clergy and nurses, chaplains in health care settings, educators in seminaries and clinical pastoral education programs, and students interested in spiritual dimensions of caring for those with advanced illness. Date Last Modified 03/31/2009 Manual/guide, Book, On-the-job tool

What Makes for a Compassionate Patient-Caregiver Relationship? Primary Author: Darshak M. Sanghavi, University of Massachusetts Medical School Article from the May 2006 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (Volume 32 Number 5) describing an initiative sponsored by the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center that involved questionnaires and discussions at 54 hospitals on this topic. This article describes the results of these discussions. Date Last Modified 05/01/2006 Article

What Moves the Scalpel? Science, Religion and the Practice of Medicine Primary Author: Farr A. Curlin, University of Chicago Video and audio files of a talk Dr. Farlin gave at the Mayo Clinic as part of the Veritas Forum. "In this lecture, Farr Curlin unpacks the way medicine looks beyond science to find forces that motivate care for the sick, direct the application of medical technology, and ground clinical care in an orientation to the patient as person. He suggests that even though religious ideas are rarely made explicit in public and professional discourse about medicine, they are everywhere implicit and operative, necessarily so. In this light, Curlin argues that the time is ripe for clinicians and laypeople to develop practices of medicine that are more fulsomely and self-consciously grounded in and informed by religion." Date Last Modified 09/23/2009 Video, Lecture presentation