The Health and Fitness XIII Kit that began the CNS Easy Supplement Kits in the 1980s continues to be a perennial favorite. This kit's success is found on it drawing on the growing interest in health-care issues, nutrition, exercise and their connection to the nurturing of spiritual values. Looks at issues surrounding the establishment of documentation to ensure that persons facing illnesses with no reasonable hope for recovery can have their wishes during treatment and through final care respected and acted upon. Spiritual outlook of caregivers can help patients, researcher finds. Focuses on the work of a Catholic University associate professor who has found that a caregiver's ability to normalize death as part of the life cycle and to put death in a meaningful framework is directly related to the ability to help the sick person confront illness and the possibility of death, and who tries to help students eliminate their discomfort with the natural process of death and dying.
Programs reach out to young people facing pain of loss.
Looks at Rainbows, LOSS and Good Mourning, three programs youth ministers can use to assist children and their families deal with separation from a family member due to traumatic or natural death, divorce or imprisonment. Marriage Encounter retreat helps couples recovering from addictions. Treatments for menopause bring new challenges to women facing life changes. Drugs and talking do mix, says counselor. Explores how parents should communicate with their children about the dire consequences of substance abuse, despite the reluctance on many parents' part to raise the issue in their household.