by Lorraine M.
Wright, RN, PhD
With increasing
evidence that there is a connection between illness, spirituality,
and healing, this book, the first to consider suffering and spirituality
jointly, provides a non-religious, practical guidebook for dealing
with this phenomenon. This holistic assessment tool is an in-depth,
step-by-step, practical guide to starting conversations about
spirituality with patients and their families in order to encourage
healing and diminish or alleviate emotional, physical, and/or
spiritual suffering. Key features:
- Provides
a model by which nurses and other health professionals can
understand the relationship between suffering and spirituality
within the context of an illness
- "Conversations
for healing" provide a clinical approach and specific questions
with which to elicit information regarding suffering and spirituality
- Defines
the key ingredients of clinical practices that reduces suffering
from illness -- creating a healing environment, acknowledging
that suffering exists, listening to, witnessing, and validating
suffering from illness
- Offers a
practical means of eliciting information from the patient and
the patient's family about their spiritual beliefs and then
demonstrates how to use those beliefs to help the patient and
the family deal with suffering and illness
- Includes
numerous clinical examples
- Describes
research-based practice and practice-based research as guides
for health professionals' own conduct
- Focuses
on "family" rather than solely adults
- Addresses
issues such as how spirituality and religion are the same or
different, and what are considered spiritual beliefs/practices
in daily life
Order information:
F.A
Davis
Amazon
Translated
into Portugese 
