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How to Be an Even Better Listener: A Practical Guide for Hospice and Palliative Care Volunteers
by Robert MundleProviding guidance and advice on the challenging art of listening, this book responds directly to the expressed learning needs of hospice and palliative care volunteers regarding their communication skills in end-of-life care.Listening can be mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausting, often highlighted in books about hospice and palliative care but never taking the spotlight. This accessible companion provides hospice and palliative care workers with a variety of helpful insights and suggestions drawn from a solid base of current theoretical concepts and clinical research.With personal reflections on being listened to, the guide includes strategies for becoming a more effective listener, as well as exploring the challenges of listening, the need for self-care and spiritual and ethical considerations. By expanding their own capacity for empathy, compassion and understanding the wider narrative of illness, hospice and palliative care volunteers will become even better listeners in their essential roles.
A Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Nei Gong
by Damo MitchellA complete and detailed explanation of the Nei Gong process. Explaining the philosophy at the core of Daoist Nei Gong, and illustrated with detailed figures throughout, this fascinating text will be of interest to practitioners of Qi Gong, martial arts and practitioners, and to anyone interested in Eastern philosophy.
Re-thinking Children's Work in Churches: A Practical Guide
by Michael Wells Ian Ross Howard Worsley David Csinos Isobel MacDougall Barbara Meardon Martyn Payne Ruth Radley Sam Richards Andy Robertson Keith J. WhiteDrawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.By outlining a range of lenses through which readers can reflect on their ministry with children and their families. this book offers inspiration to help them improve their practice. Up-to-date research and thinking provides a fresh and flexible understanding of work with children and families. It also prepares readers to develop and support a team that can take responsibility for the key areas needed in an effective children's ministry.With each chapter featuring practice examples, relevant theory, theological reflections, opportunities for contemplation and suggestions for further reading, Re-Thinking Children's Work in Churches is an accessible and indispensable guide for those wishing to focus on the holistic development of the child.
Spiritual Care for People Living with Dementia Using Multisensory Interventions: A Practical Guide for Chaplains
by Richard BehersDrawing on years of experience and research, Behers proposes new methods of providing spiritual care to people with dementia. By engaging with patients' senses, chaplains can encourage spiritual awakenings to offer comfort and support. Thoughtful and original, this key text educates chaplains on the most effective ways of providing spiritual care.
People of the Book: An Interfaith Dialogue about How Jews, Christians and Muslims Understand Their Sacred Scriptures
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok George Chryssides Usama HasanExploring the writings of the Torah, Bible and Qu'ran, this book presents a lively and thoughtful discussion of scripture's role in contemporary faith. Analysing the many theological, political and social issues that divide or unite different religious traditions, it reveals modern inspiration, truth and guidance can be drawn from three Holy Writs.
Forgiveness in Practice
by Howard Cooper Chris Cook Deborah Bowman Richard Carter Graham Spencer Marina Cantacuzino Christiane Sanderson Robin Shohet Steve Nolan Marian Liebmann Stephen Cherry Dr Gwen Adshead Liz Gulliford Anthony Bash Reza Shah-Kazemi Vajragupta Jesse Butler Meadows Honor Rhodes Amanda Boorman Lord Alderdice Wendy DossettThis collection reveals what forgiveness looks like in practice from the standpoint of those working in the helping professions. Written from many different perspectives, this eclectic volume challenges the reader to reconsider their assumptions about forgiveness, and illuminates everyday impact of forgiveness.
Ethical Questions in Healthcare Chaplaincy: Learning to Make Informed Decisions
by Pia MatthewsThis book dissects the ethical challenges faced by healthcare chaplains every day. Bringing together case studies, legal advice and invitations for contemplation, this book helps both professional and volunteer chaplains to reflect on their practice and provide the highest level of support to patients.
How to Get the Most Out of Clinical Pastoral Education: A CPE Primer
by Gordon J. D.MinThis is the simple, practical introduction to getting the best results from Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Covering how to report on, reflect on and discuss pastoral encounters, it explains how to foster better responses to patients' spiritual needs in a range of clinical settings.
Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality: An Unforeseen Relationship
by Lynne VanderpotBased on interviews with people on psychiatric medication who deem spirituality to be important in their lives, this book uncovers the relationship between psychopharmacology and spirituality. In doing so, it presents a challenge to the purely medical approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Moral Injury Reconciliation: A Practitioner's Guide for Treating Moral Injury, PTSD, Grief, and Military Sexual Trauma through Spiritual Formation Strategies
by Lewis Jeffery LeeAimed at Veterans suffering from moral injury and PTSD, the author has created a 3-phased spiritual care treatment based on reconciling past trauma, creating a focused present and anticipating a hopeful future. It blends spiritual awareness exercises, EBT elements, psychoeducation and self-care techniques.
Treating Body and Soul: A Clinicians' Guide to Supporting the Physical, Mental and Spiritual Needs of Their Patients
by Bobbie Farsides Andy Nutall Cathy Garland Muna Al-Jawad Nicola Gainsborough Nigel Spencer Pat Shields Peter Larson-Disney Rachel Reed Somnath Mukhopadhyay Tim Ojo Jo DeBono Adam MacDiarmaid-GordonIn this book, healthcare professionals share their experiences of enquiring into the spiritual needs of their patients. Each using their own style of research, they discover that recognising patients' spiritual requirements allows the whole team to improve the level of care provided in a variety of medical settings.
Chaplaincy in Hospice and Palliative Care
by Ruth White Jonathan Pye Abbas Khalifa Andy Edmeads David Buck Dawn Allan Ewan Kelly Gary Windon Helen Newman Jacki Thomas Jessica Rose Jill Brown Jonathan Wittenberg Judy Davies Julian Abel Kathryn Morrison Liza Waller Louise Adey Huish Margery Collin Martin Hill Matthew Hagan Nell Mellerick Sally Bedborough Simon O'Donoghue Stig Graham Richard Clarke Margaret Whipp Caroline McAfeeIn an increasingly secular society chaplaincy is no longer widely accepted as a necessary element of palliative care. A meditative reflection on the role played by hospice chaplains, this book argues that chaplains have a vital part to play in the care of a patient, their family, and those supporting them.
Multifaith Chaplaincy in the Workplace: How Chaplains Can Support Organizations and their Employees
by Fiona Stewart-DarlingMultifaith chaplaincies can be an asset to the business community, as they challenge and enable discussion about value, ethics, and culture. Reflecting on the experience of Canary Wharf, the book makes an important contribution to chaplaincy studies.
Personhood, Illness, and Death in America's Multifaith Neighborhoods: A Practical Guide
by Lucinda MosherIn this interfaith book Lucinda Mosher investigates different understandings of destiny, loss, death, and remembrance in America's many religions. Using stories and interviews with a variety of religious adherents and health professionals, the book wrestles with questions such as: how can our religion guide us in making decisions about certain kinds of medical treatment options? What religion-related issues would it be helpful for a healthcare provider to know? How do different religious traditions help manage our grief?In a globalized society religious traditions sit alongside each other as never before, and the need for religious literacy and multifaith chaplaincy is increasingly recognized. By looking at multireligious America, this book provides an essential exploration of different attitudes to death, helping members of all faith communities to become more literate with each other's religious traditions.
Learning to Live Well Together: Case Studies in Interfaith Diversity
by Riaz Ravat Revd. Tom WilsonShows how to overcome intolerance and promote positive interactions in multi-faith societies. With real examples from case studies, this book demonstrates how to address the frictions that may arise for harmonious living among multi-faith communities and better relations between the members of the public and people who run community services.
Grief Demystified: An Introduction
by Caroline LloydTelling you what you need to know about grief, this book is the perfect introduction for the lay reader who works with the bereaved. Giving the basics of modern grief theory, tips on what to say to someone in grieving and much more, it is a must read for anyone who works with the bereaved.
Effective Self-Care and Resilience in Clinical Practice: Dealing with Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
by Amy D'Sa Caroline Wyatt Ciara Joyce Edith Macintosh Hannah Wilson Jenny Shuttleworth Davies Kirsten Atherton Liz Tallentire Mary Prendergast Ndumanene Silungwe Olivia Wadham Sarah Lawson Simone BolA compilation of experiences from a range of clinical practices that depicts the use of compassion as a means of improving practitioner wellbeing, with direct effects on their therapeutic work. First-hand insights and ideas are offered for developing therapeutic practice through a framework of compassion.
Paediatric Chaplaincy: Principles, Practices and Skills
by Mary Robinson Stephen Harrison Dan Roberts Kathryn Darby Claire Carson Naomi Kalish Rebecca Nye Ryan Campbell Krista Gregory Carl Aiken Jim Linthicum Daniel Nuzum Bob Flory M. Karen Ballard Edina Farkas Kobena Charm Wyatt Butcher Lindsay B. Carey Daniel H. Grossoehme Kathleen Ennis-Durstine Emma RobertsDrawing on a range of approaches developed by paediatric chaplaincy teams worldwide, this edited collection provides best principles, practices and skills of chaplaincy work with neonates, infants, children, young people and their families.By engaging with paediatric chaplaincy from an international, multifaith perspective, contributors from around the world and different faith traditions show what good spiritual, religious and pastoral care for children and their families looks like. The book contains contributions from specialists who work with children with mental health issues or profound disabilities, as well as chapters that focus on how best to provide palliative and bereavement care. Includes resources and activities for use in specialist care situations and tools for assessment, making this a must-have for any paediatric chaplaincy team working in a hospital or hospice.
Theosomnia: A Christian Theology of Sleep
by Andrew BishopSleep occupies around one third of a person's life and is the subject of research across many disciplines. In this groundbreaking new monograph, Andrew Bishop explores sleep by creatively drawing on resources of the Christian tradition.Sleep is a subject which demands theological attention, because of the central place it occupies in contemporary reflection on what it is to be human. Offering original research, this book investigates sleep for the first time from a theological position, looking at all key questions that a theological treatment of sleep raises, including issues of identity and personhood, sleep and mortality, resurrection, and renewal and healing.
Psycho-spiritual Care in Health Care Practice
by Isabel Clarke Steve Nolan Prof William West Bob Heath Gavin Garman Rachel FreethThis book explores relationships between the medical, psychological and spiritual requirements of patients in health care settings. Building on understanding between all health care disciplines and offering a model for practical development, it presents a holistic, inclusive approach to providing effective care for patients.
Exploring Moral Injury in Sacred Texts
by John Thompson Warren Carter Amir Hussain Brad Kelle Daniel C. Maguire David R. Blumenthal Kelly Denton-Borhaug Michael Yandell Nancy BowenIn this collection, the first of its kind, prominent scholars explore the intersections of research on moral injury in contexts of war and violence and how scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and American civil religion depict and address moral injury.
Dignity: Its History and Meaning
by Michael RosenDignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal.“Penetrating and sprightly…Rosen rightly emphasizes the centrality of Catholicism in the modern history of human dignity. His command of the history is impressive…Rosen is a wonderful guide to the recent German constitutional thinking about human dignity…[Rosen] is in general an urbane and witty companion, achieving his aim of accessibly written philosophy.”—Samuel Moyn, The Nation“[An] elegant, interesting and lucid exploration of the concept of dignity...Drawing on classical, liberal and Catholic traditions, Rosen hopes to rehabilitate dignity to its rightful place near the centre of moral thought...Rosen's admirable book deserves wide attention from political theorists, jurisprudes and political philosophers.”—Simon Blackburn, Times Higher Education“Dignity deserves to be widely read, not only for its intrinsic interest, but also as a corrective to the habit of discussing such topics in abstraction from their social context. Whether or not one agrees with Rosen's arguments, there can be no doubt he has widened our horizons.”—Rae Langton, Times Literary Supplement
Art of Living, Art of Dying: Spiritual Care for a Good Death
by Carlo LegetTalking about dying and death can be difficult for those facing the end of life. This book presents a model and offers examples for discussing existential questions with patients receiving end-of-life care. Updating the Ars Moriendi tradition, this book offers a non-judgemental approach for supporting people through the spiritual aspects of dying.
Spiritual Care in Common Terms: How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records
by Gordon J. D.MinBringing medical and spiritual perspectives together, this book shows how to form clear notes on patients' spiritual experiences for medical records to inform individual care provision. It offers concepts, examples and background understanding of the charting process to improve communication on spiritual matters in interdisciplinary teams.
Unclouded by Longing: Meditations on Autism and Being Present in an Overwhelming World
by Christopher GoodchildMapped out in thoughtful, visionary prose, this book lights the way to clear-sighted, peaceful living. Informed by a combination of eastern and western philosophy, faith and the experiences of an author with autism, it examines the emotional challenges of modern life, and how to overcome them to live freely and tenderly.