Spiritual Aspects of Health Care
Overview
Written by an experienced hospital chaplain, Spiritual Aspects of Health Care provides you with a comprehensive guide to meeting the spiritual and religious needs of all your patients. David Stoter provides an introduction to the nature of spiritual care, and follows it with a practical section on the healthcare career, self-examination, skill development, and the dynamic of patient-provider relationship. Stoter also prepares chaplains by discussing common patient responses to illness, pain, loss, and recovery.
This and other great volumes are included in Wipf & Stock Chaplain’s Ministry Collection (10 vols.).
- Equips chaplain’s to meet spiritual and religious needs of patients
- Discusses the nature of spiritual care
- Offers ways to address the way patients respond to care
- Spiritual Need and Spiritual Care
- The Carers
- The Patient’s Response
- Provisions for Meeting Special Needs in Particular Situations
- Practical Issues in Management and Delivery of Spiritual Care
Top Highlights
“One of the rarely recognised skills of assessment is the ability to use silence—a silence which is comfortable, assuring and accepting, which allows safety for the person to continue an internal exploration of their needs. Often it is accompanied by touch and with the carer just staying there. This frequently allows the underlying situation to be looked at more fully in safety and to be appraised by the individual without him or her ever having to say very much openly. This iceberg situation is one where the patient may have showed the tip of the iceberg, but feels that they shared the whole of themselves with the other person and indeed may have communicated at depth.” (Page 41)
“These opening Chapters outline some of the current thinking on the nature of spirituality. From here it is possible to look at definitions of ‘spiritual need’ and ‘spiritual care’. Chapter 2 broadens upon these to look at the nature of the relationships fundamental to spiritual care and the concepts of a partnership between patient and carer in journeying together. It touches briefly on the various issues involved, laying the foundations for the following Chapters to explore the various aspects of spiritual care in detail. To complete the picture these are brought together in the last Chapter.” (Page 1)
“For spiritual care to be effective, the carer has first to identify the need or needs that are present by listening to and accepting each person as and where they are. Second, in order to be able to offer spiritual care at all, the carer must be acceptable to the person receiving the care. In general terms, spiritual care can be offered through an attitude of love and acceptance within the caring relationship.” (Page 8)
- Title: Spiritual Aspects of Health Care
- Author: David J. Stoter
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Pastoral care; Holistic health; Patients › Care
- ISBNs: 9781556358920, 9780723419556, 155635892X, 0723419558
- Resource ID: LLS:SPRTLSPCTSHLTCR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:07:04Z