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Complementary Spiritual Practices in Professional Chaplaincy

Primary Author: Association of Professional Chaplains (APC)

A resource for chaplains seeking to learn more about complementary pastoral resources, practices, and interventions. This pdf document contains a list of practices across the mind/body/spirit continuum that a chaplain could do in his or her ministry. For each practice the purported benefits are listed along with references to research about the practice.

This is a work in progress and suggestions are requested.

Date Last Modified 06/01/2009 Manual/guide, On-the-job tool

A Dictionary of Patients' Spiritual & Cultural Values for Health Care Professionals

Primary Author: HealthCare Chaplaincy

This is "a guide that is meant to describe beliefs and practices generally found within a particular cultural or religious group." The purpose is to help healthcare providers meet the Joint Commission's requirement for addressing and maintaining patient rights for their cultural, religious, spiritual, and personal values, and religious and other spiritual practices to be accommodated. Sections include:

Western Religions: Comparison of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions; Judaism; Christianity; Christian Science; Eastern Orthodox; Jehovah's Witness; Mormonism; Protestantism; Roman Catholicism; Seventh-day Adventism; Islam (Muslim); Sunni vs. Shiite

Eastern Religions: Buddhism; Hinduism; Sikhism

Other Religions: Baha'i; Native American; Rastafarian Movement; Santeria; Voodoo; Wicca

Major American Cultures: African-American/Black Culture; Hispanic-American Culture; Native American Culture

African Cultures: Somali-American Culture; Caribbean Cultures; Cuban-American Culture; Haitian-American Culture; Jamaican-American Culture

Middle East/South Asian Cultures: Arab-American Culture; East Indian-American Culture; Iranian-American Culture

East Asian Cultures: Chinese-American Culture; Filipino-American Culture; Japanese-American Culture; Korean-American Culture; Vietnamese-American Culture

Euro-Asian Cultures: Gypsy/Roma Culture; Russian-American Culture

Date Last Modified 09/01/2009 Manual/guide, Report/Document/Book chapter

Spiritual Care & Emotional Support in Healthcare: Physician's Manual

Primary Author: Mark Reeves, UCSD Medical Center

This physician manual, created by a winner of the GWish Spirituality and Medicine Curricular and Residency Training Program Award, contains much information specific to the UCSD Medical Center but can serve as a model for others.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2008 Manual/guide

No box to tick: A booklet for carers of people with learning disabilities

Primary Author: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

This booklet is intended to help caregivers of people with learning disabilities with spiritual and emotional support. It is based on interviews and focus group-based research and gives suggestions of things to do.

Date Last Modified 06/01/2004 Manual/guide

What is important to you? A booklet for people with learning disabilities

Primary Author: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

This booklet is written for people with learning disabilities. It is based on interview and focus-group based research on what is important to people with learning disabilities. It is intended to help patients think about what is important in their lives and communicate that to others.

Date Last Modified 04/01/2004 Manual/guide