Making health care whole
Subtitle: integrating spirituality into health care
By: Christina M. Puchalski, Betty Ferrell.
Contributors: Ferrell, Betty.
Publisher: Templeton Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: West Conshohocken, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781599473505
Subjects: Palliative treatment; Spirituality; Spiritual healing; Medicine -- Religious aspects; Palliative Care -- standards -- Guideline; Professional Role -- Guideline; Religion and Medicine -- Guideline; Spirituality -- Guideline
Genres: Guideline
Description: While spirituality has been generally recognized as an essential dimension of palliative care, uniformity of spiritual care practice has been lacking across healthcare settings due to factors like varying understandings and definitions of spirituality, lack of resources and practical tools, and limited professional education and training in spiritual care. In order to address these shortcomings, more than forty spiritual and palliative care experts gathered for a national conference to discuss guidelines for incorporating spirituality into palliative care. Their consensus findings form the basis of Making Health Care Whole. This important new resource provides much-needed definitions and charts a common language for addressing spiritual care across the disciplines of medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, psychology, and other groups. This book also advocates a team approach to spiritual care, and specifies the roles of each professional on the team. Serving as both a scholarly review of the field as well as a practical resource with specific recommendations to improve spiritual care in clinical practice, Making Health Care Whole will benefit hospices and palliative care programs in hospitals, home care services, and long-term care services.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why spirituality in palliative care; title: Guidelines/preferred practices for spiritual care; title: Spirituality : defining the concept; title: Background; title: Professional guideline standards for spiritual care; title: Spiritual care models; title: Spiritual history taking and assessment of patients and families; title: The spiritual treatment or care plan; title: Interprofessional considerations : roles and team functioning; title: Training and certification; title: Personal and professional development; title: Quality improvement.