Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Ideas for Healing
by Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD

This captivating book uses real-life clinical examples to provide a nonreligious, practical guide for negotiating the crossroads where spirituality, illness, and healing meet. The first text to consider suffering and spirituality jointly, this holistic assessment tool provides step-by-step guidance to starting conversations about spirituality with patients and their families to encourage healing and alleviate emotional, physical, and/or spiritual suffering.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness in Everyday Life
2. Reflections and Learning about Suffering
3 . Spirituality and Illness in Professional Literature
4. The Trinity Model: Beliefs, Suffering, and Spirituality
5. Clinical Practices that Optimize Healing: Creating and Opening Space for Suffering and Spirituality in Conversations about Illness
6 . Connecting the Personal and the Professional in Matters of Suffering, Spirituality, and Illness

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