Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare + Online Access (Hardcover)

Description

• First comprehensive reference text to examine the growing area of spirituality in healthcare
• Organised into six substantive and interrelated sections for ease of navigation
• Written by a team of international editors and authors

The relationship between spirituality and healthcare is historical, intellectual and practical, and it has now emerged as a significant field in health research, healthcare policy and clinical practice and training. Understanding health and wellbeing requires addressing spiritual and existential issues, and healthcare is therefore challenged to respond to the ways spirituality is experienced and expressed in illness, suffering, healing and loss. If healthcare has compassionate regard for the humanity of those it serves it is faced with questions about how it understands and interprets spirituality, what resources it should make available and how these are organised, and the ways in which spirituality shapes and informs the purpose and practice of healthcare? These questions are the basis for this book that presents a coherent field of enquiry, discussion and debate that is interdisciplinary, international and vibrant.

There is a growing corpus of articles in medical and healthcare journals on spirituality in addition to a wide range of literature, but there has been no attempt so far to publish a standard text on this subject. Spirituality in Healthcare is an authoritative reference on the subject providing unequalled coverage, critical depth and an integrated source of key topics. Divided into six sections including practice, research, policy and training, the book brings together international contributions from scholars in the field to provide a unique and stimulating resource.

Readership: Multidisciplinary practitioners and professionals who constitute healthcare communities.

Table of Contents

Edmund Pellegrino: Forward
Mark Cobb, Christina Puchalski and Bruce Rumbold: Preface
I Traditions
1: Gary B Ferngren: Medicine and Religion: A historical perspective
2: Kathleen Gregory: Buddhism: Perspectives for the contemporary world
3: Russell Kirkland: Chinese Religion: Taoism
4: Alister E McGrath: Christianity
5: Susan A Ross: Feminist Spirituality
6: Prakash N Desai: Indian Religion and the Ayurvedic Tradition
7: Stan van Hooft: . The Western Humanist Tradition
8: Graham Harvey: Indigenous Spiritualties
9: Abdulaziz Sachedina: Islam
10: Dan Cohn-Sherbok: Judaism
11: Paul Heelas: 'New Age' Spirituality
12: Graham Oppy: Philosophy
13: Trevor Stammers and Stephen Bullivant: Secularism
14: Eleanor Nesbitt: Sikhism
II Concepts
15: John Swinton: Healthcare spirituality: A question of knowledge
16: Rosalie Hudson: Personhood
17: Mark Cobb: Belief
18: Jaklin Eliott: Hope
19: Laurie A Burke and Robert A Neimeyer: Meaning Making
20: Susan Walker and Carol Taylor: Compassion: Luxury or Necessity?
21: Harvey Chochinov and Shane Sinclair: Dignity: A Novel Path into the Spiritual Landscape of the Human Heart
22: Lodovico Balducci and H. Lee Modditt: Cure and Healing
23: Betty Ferrell and Catherine del Ferraro: Suffering
24: Douglas J Davies: Ritual
25: Peter van der Veer: Culture and Religion
III Practice
26: Bruce Rumbold: Models of Spiritual Care
27: Chris Swift, George Handzo and Jeffrey Cohen: Healthcare Chaplaincy
28: Margaret L Stuber and Brandon Horn: Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine
29: Christina M Puchalski: Restorative Medicine
30: Wilfred McSherry and Linda Ross: Nursing
31: Anne van Loon: Faith Community (Parish) Nursing
32: James L Griffith: Psychiatry and Mental Health Treatment
33: Margaret Holloway: Social Work
34: Patricia Fosarelli: Care of Children
35: Elizabeth MacKinlay: Care of elderly people
36: Jacqueline Ellis and Mari Lloyd-Williams: Palliative Care
37: Nigel Hartley: Spirituality and the arts: Discovering what really matters
38: Michael Kearney and Radhule Weininger: Care of the Soul
39: William West: Counselling
40: Shane Sinclair and Harvey M Chochinov: Dignity Conserving Care
41: Emmanuel Y Lartey: Pastoral Theology in healthcare settings: Blessed irritant for holistic human care
42: George Fitchett: Next Steps for spiritual assessment in healthcare
IV Research
43: David J Hufford: Methodology
44: Arndt Büssing: Measures
45: Hisham Abu-Raiya and Kenneth I Pargament: On the links between religion and health: What has empirical research taught us?
46: Bella Vivat: Quality of Life
47: Kevin S Seybold: Cognitive Sciences: A perspective on spirituality and religious experience
48: Raymond F Paloutzian, Rodger K Bufford and Ashley J Wildman: Spiritual Well-Being Scale: Mental and Physical Health Relationships
49: Marek Jantos: Prayer and Meditation
50: Gregory Fricchione and Shamim Nejad: Resiliency and Coping
51: Fiona Gardner: Spiritual experience, practice and community
V Policy and Education:
52: Bruce Rumbold, Christina Puchalski, Mark Cobb: Policy
53: Neil Pembroke: Healthcare Organizations: Corporate spirituality
54: Lindsay B Carey: Utility and Commissioning of Spiritual Carers
55: Holly Nelson-Becker and Mary Pat Sullivan: Social Care
56: Christina Puchalski, Bruce Rumbold, Mark Cobb, Angelike A Zollfrank and Catherine F Garlid: Curriculum Development, Courses and CPE
57: Ewan Kelly: Competences in spiritual care education and training
58: Nathan Carlin, Thomas Cole and Henry Strobel: Guidance from the Humanities for Professional Formation
59: Fiona Gardner: Training and Formation: A case study
60: Peter Speck: Interdisciplinary teamwork
61: Daniel P Sulmasy: Ethical Principles for Spiritual Care
VI Challenges
62: David Tacey: Contemporary Spirituality
63: Grace Davie and Martyn Percy: The Future of Religion
64: Mark Cobb, Bruce Rumbold and Christina Puchalski: The Future of Spirituality and Healthcare

Authors

Edited by Mark Cobb, Clinical Director and Senior Chaplain, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Christina M Puchlaski, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Director, The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish), USA, and Bruce Rumbold, Director, Palliative Care Unit, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia

Mark Cobb is a Senior Chaplain and a Clinical Director at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and holds honorary academic posts at the University of Sheffield and the University of Liverpool. He has a multidisciplinary education across science and the humanities and has experience working in the community, voluntary and acute health sectors.

Christina M. Puchalski is founding Director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) in Washington, D.C. and a Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University. Dr. Puchalski is a pioneer and leader in the movement to integrate spirituality into healthcare in both the clinical setting and in medical education. Her work continues to break ground in the clinical, academic, and pastoral understanding of spiritual care as an essential element of healthcare. She is an active clinician, board certified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care. Her accolades include the 2009 George Washington University Distinguished Alumni Award and 2011 Outstanding Colleague Award from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is also a member of the contemplative Carmelite lay community. Dr. Puchalski has authored many publications and been featured in numerous print and television media.

Bruce Rumbold is Director of the Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University, where his responsibilities include coordinating health promoting palliative care and spiritual care academic programs alongside developing public health approaches to end of life care. His multidisciplinary interests are supported by postgraduate qualifications in physics, practical theology and health social science. Prior to joining La Trobe he was from 1986-2002 foundation professor of pastoral studies at Whitley College, an affiliated teaching institution of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Social determinants of end of life experience, and spiritual care, are the particular foci of his current work.