Spiritual assessment in healthcare practice

Spiritual assessment in healthcare practice / edited by Wilfred McSherry and Linda Ross ; with a foreword by Dr. Androulla Johnstone.

There has been a groundswell of interest in and recognition of the importance the spiritual part of a person's life has to play in coping with/recovery from illness as well as in the attainment and maintenance of health, wellbeing and quality of life. Addressing the spiritual part of life is no...

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Other Authors: McSherry, Wilfred, Ross, Linda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Keswick, England : M & K, 2010.
Subjects:
Spiritual care (Medical care)
Patients > Religious life.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Healing > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Alternative Therapies.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healing.
MEDICAL > Healing.
Medicine > Religious aspects
Patients > Religious life
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Prelims; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Why the increasing interest in spirituality within healthcare?; Chapter 2 The meanings of spirituality: a multi-perspective approach to 'the spiritual'; Chapter 3 Recognising spiritual needs; Chapter 4 Spiritual assessment: definition, categorisation and features; Chapter 5 The spiritual history: an essential element of patient-centred care; Chapter 6 Indicator-based and value clarification tools; Chapter 7 Assessing and improving the quality of spiritual care; Chapter 8 Dilemmas of spiritual assessment

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