Faith, Spirituality, and Medicine : Toward the Making of the Healing Practitioner

ISBN-13: 9780789007247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 150 str.

Dana E. King

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Explores the connection between patient health and traditional religious beliefs and practices, emphasizing basic, easily understood principles that will help health professionals apply current research findings linking religion, spirituality, and health. Provides a biopsychosocial-spiritual model that helps place the subject in perspective, then r

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Contents

• About the Author
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Integrating Religion and Spirituality into the Biopsychosocial Model
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• The Biopsychosocial Model
• Spirituality and Mental Health
• Spirituality and Physical Health
• A Biopsychospiritual Model
• Patients' Desire for Addressing Spiritual Issues in the Medical Setting
• Spirituality in Practice
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Patients and Religion
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• People in the United States Are Religious
• Geography of Religion in the United States
• Demographics
• Health Beliefs of Selected Religious Groups
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Patients and Spirituality
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Spirituality
• Spirituality During Illness
• Faith in Spiritual Healing
• Spirituality and Health
• Spirituality and Prayer
• Spirituality and Meditation
• Summary
• Questions for Discussion
• Chapter 4. Religion, Spirituality, and Health
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Rationale for Studying Religion/Spirituality and Health
• Religious Commitment and Mortality
• Religious Commitment and Physiologic/Immune Factors in Health
• Religious Commitment and Depression
• Summary
• Questions for Discussion
• Chapter 5. Health Professionals and Spirituality
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Spiritual and Religious Beliefs of Health Professionals
• The Integration Gap
• The Spirituality Gap
• Summary
• Questions for Discussion
• Chapter 6. Assessing Patients' Spirituality--Taking a Spiritual History
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Why Assess Patients' Spirituality?
• When Should Patients' Spirituality Be Assessed?
• How to Take a Spiritual History
• FICA
• MERIT
• Summary
• Questions for Discussion
• Chapter 7. Ethics of Involvement in Patients' Spirituality
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Ethics of Spiritual Inquiry
• Ethics of Referral of Chaplains
• Ethics of Prayer with Patients
• Summary
• Questions for Discussion
• Cases for Discussion
• Chapter 8. Chaplains and Pastoral Services
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Education and Training
• Role of the Chaplain
• Collaborating with Chaplains in the Treatment of Patients
• The Impact of Pastoral Care on Health
• Summary
• Questions for Discussion
• Chapter 9. Spirituality in Special Patient Populations: Dying Patients
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• The Role of Spirituality in End-of-Life Decisions
• Spirituality As a Coping Mechanism
• Belief in Miracles and an Afterlife
• Summary
• Questions for Discussion
• Chapter 10. Spirituality in Special Patient Populations: Surgical Patients
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Before Surgery
• Surgery and Prayer
• Religious/Spiritual Factors and Surgical Recovery
• Addressing Spiritual Concerns and Mobilizing Spiritual Resources in the Surgical Patient
• Summary
• Question for Discussion
• Chapter 11. Integrating Spirituality into Clinical Practice
• Chapter Objectives
• Introduction
• Spectrum of Involvement
• Integrating Spirituality into Health Professions Education
• Summary
• Notes
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Dana E King, Harold G Koenig