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Spirituality and stress relief: Make the connection Primary Author: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Article by the Mayo Clinic that describes what spirituality is, how spirituality can help you, how you can define your spirituality, and how to cultivate your spirituality. Date Last Modified 07/23/2008 Article, Website

Evaluating your Spiritual Assessment Process Primary Author: The Joint Commission Two page article from the Joint Commission that discusses Joint Commission requirements for spiritual assessment. Topics include barriers to spiritual assessment, who should conduct a spiritual assessment, why assess spirituality, approaches to determining spiritual assessment content, and ensuring the competence of those conducting spiritual assessments. From Joint Commission: The Source, February 2005, Volume 3, Issue 2. Date Last Modified 02/01/2005 Article

Touching the Spirit: How to Develop Programs that Enrich a Senior's Spirituality Primary Author: Donna Childress, National Council on Aging (NCOA) Article from Innovations: The Publication of the National Council on Aging, about developing programs and activities to enrich seniors' spirituality. Date Last Modified 11/01/2005 Article

The Essential Elements of Spirituality in the End-of-Life Care Primary Author: Katrina M. Scott, MDiv, BCC, Massachusetts General Hospital The National Consensus Projects Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, published in 2004, defines eight domains of care essential to palliative care clinical practice. The National Quality Forums 2006 document, A National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality: A Consensus Report, which is based on the Guidelines, identifies 38 evidence-based preferred practices for palliative care. This article demonstrates how the Guidelines and Preferred Practices may be operationalized in practice, focusing specifically on Domain 5 of the Guidelines, Spiritual, Religious and Existential Aspects of Care, which incorporates many pertinent aspects of hospice and palliative care related to addressing the spiritual needs of the dying patient and his or her family. In particular, the article addresses methods for assessing the need for spiritual care; methods for communicating with the patient and family about the need for spiritual care; the role of the spiritual adviser on the interdisciplinary palliative care team; the advantages of including certified chaplains on the palliative team; the need for sensitivity toward culture and religious diversity in administering spiritual care; the need for specialized palliative care spiritual advisors to build relationships with community clergy; and more. Date Last Modified 09/01/2008 Article, Clinical practice guidelines

The 3 H and BMSEST Models for Spirituality in Multicultural Whole-Person Medicine Primary Author: Gowri Anandarajah, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University This article from the Annals of Family Medicine (volume 6, issue 5) describes the 3 H (head, heart, hands) and the BMSEST models (body, mind, spirit, environment, social, transcendent) for looking at spirituality in medicine as a part of whole-person care. Date Last Modified 09/01/2008 Article