Healthcare professionals, clergy, chaplains, social workers, and others who counsel people in medical crisis often find themselves faced with deeply painful questions: Why is this happening to me? Am I dying? Why should I live? I?m just a burden to others. Here is a workbook that suggests healing verbal responses to such expressions of spiritual pain. Lessons, tips, and exercises teach how to listen effectively, with guidelines for detecting and understanding the spiritual needs embedded in patients? conversations. Suggestions are provided for verbal responses to patients who express...