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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

Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives

Primary Author: James L. Griffith, GWUMC

Primarily written for psychotherapists, counselors, and others working in mental health, this book serves as a guide to "exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses".

Date Last Modified 07/01/2003 Book

The Medical Manual for Religio-Cultural Competence: Caring for Religiously Diverse Populations

Primary Author: Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

This book "details how religious traditions and practices affect medical decisions in ten major world religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Shinto, Traditional Chinese, American Indian & Alaska Natives and Afro-Caribbean." It is a guidebook for medical practice.

Date Last Modified 12/01/2009 Book

The Unbroken Circle

Primary Author: James L. Brooks, M.Div., Duke University Institute on Care at the End of Life

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Date Last Modified 03/31/2009 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