Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Ideas for Healing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1171-9
©2005 Paperback 229 pages
$29.95 (US)
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With increasing evidence that there is a connection between illness, spirituality, and healing, this book, the first to consider suffering and spirituality jointly, provides a non-religious, practical guidebook for dealing with this phenomenon. This holistic assessment tool is an in-depth, step-by-step, practical guide to starting conversations about spirituality with patients and their families in order to encourage healing and diminish or alleviate emotional, physical, and/or spiritual suffering.
Provides a model by which nurses and other health professionals can understand the relationship between suffering and spirituality within the context of an illness
“Conversations for healing” provide a clinical approach and specific questions with which to elicit information regarding suffering and spirituality
Defines the key ingredients of clinical practices that reduces suffering from illness -- creating a healing environment, acknowledging that suffering exists, listening to, witnessing, and validating suffering from illness
Offers a practical means of eliciting information from the patient and the patient’s family about their spiritual beliefs and then demonstrates how to use those beliefs to help the patient and the family deal with suffering and illness
Includes numerous clinical examples
Describes research-based practice and practice-based research as guides for health professionals’ own conduct
Focuses on "family" rather than solely adults
Addresses issues such as how spirituality and religion are the same or different, and what are considered spiritual beliefs/practices in daily life
1. Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness in Everyday Life
2. Reflections and Learning about Suffering
3. Spirituality and Illness in Professional Literature
4. The Trinity Model: Beliefs, Suffering, and Spirituality
5. Clinical Practices that Optimize Healing: Creating and Opening Space for Suffering and Spirituality in Conversations about Illness
6. Connecting the Personal and the Professional in Matters of Suffering, Spirituality, and Illness
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