Meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of patients is vital to supporting their wellbeing in health care settings. To develop an effective, holistic and inclusive approach to care within predominantly medical health care models, practitioners across health care disciplines must work collaboratively to understand the complex, significant relationships between their patients’ medical, therapeutic and spiritual requirements.
Bridging the gap between care disciplines, the book presents an innovative vision of patient wellbeing enriched by a synthesis of psychological, spiritual and medical approaches. Prominent practitioners from a range of disciplines including nursing and psychiatry demonstrate how their psycho-spiritual approaches meet the individual needs of patients, adapting to their emotional, spiritual and religious requirements.
Accessible and enlightening, this book offers significant practical insight into the role of psychologically informed spiritual care.
Зміст
Introduction – Guy Harrison, Head of Spiritual and Pastoral Care, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Part One. The Development of Psycho-Spiritual Care: Research and Practice – Guy Harrison. 1. The Practice of Psycho-Spiritual Care. 2. An Autoethnographic Narrative Case Study Approach to Research. 3. Liminality and Healing. 4. Developing Psycho-Spiritual Care as an Aspect of Holistic Health. Part Two. Aspects of Psycho-Spiritual Care in Health Care Practice. Introduction – William West, Visiting Professor in Counselling at the University of Chester and Honorary Reader in Counselling Studies at the University of Manchester. 5. The Struggle for Meaning: Incorporating a spiritual dimension in mental health care – Rachel Freeth, Psychiatrist and Counsellor. 6. Spirituality, Psychosis and the Journey of Life – Isabel Clarke, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. 7. Souls and Shadows: Words, Music and the Compassionate Spirit – Bob Heath, Music Therapist. 8. The Mindfulness of Caring – Gavin Garman, Deputy Director of Nursing and Practice, Devon Partnership Trust. 9. Searching for Identity in Uncertain Professional Territory: Psychospirituality as Discourse for Non-Religious Spiritual Care – Steve Nolan, Chaplain. 10. Conclusion – Guy Harrison.
Про автора
Steve Nolan, Ph.D., is a palliative care chaplain at Princess Alice Hospice, Surrey, UK, where he works daily with people who are dying, supporting them and their families. He regularly teaches spiritual care to students visiting the hospice and is a tutor on the MTh in Chaplaincy Studies at St. Michael’s College, Llandaff, part of Cardiff University.