Few areas in life have experienced the rapid pace of change that has been the experience of health care. It's an area where nothing feels "safe" and everything is threatened with reexamination and redefinition. Accompanying this situation is a new appreciation for the human spirit and the gift of things spiritual, including the soul of the work place. Addressing this situation is a vital new book "Health Care and Spirituality: Listening, Assessing, Caring" an anthology of the human predicament, the health care professional's story and the health care work place. "Health Care and Spirituality" explores this area that is continually being introduced to new treatments, new challenges, new people, new regulations, new expectations, and new time limits.
Introduction xiii Transversing Purgatory (Poem) xix Reverend Denise A. Ryder SECTION 1: Health Care and Spirituality: Professional Perspectives A Nurses Perspective 3(12) Cynthia Russell A Chaplains Perspective: The Early Years 15(6) Reverend Richard Stewart A Chaplains Perspective: The Challenge for Today 21(16) Reverend Richard B. Gilbert A Beginning Examination of the Spirituality of Health Care Professionals 37(16) David W. Adams Rick Csiernik SECTION 2: Health Care and Spirituality: Belief System Perspectives Dying and Grieving are Journeys of the Spirit 53(12) John D. Morgan Spiritual Care in the New Pluralistic Context 65(10) Edgar P. Senne The Roman Catholic Patient 75(14) Reverend Fr. Joseph Driscoll The Jewish Patient 89(18) Rabbi Jeffery Silberman SECTION 3: Health Care and Spirituality: Ethnic and Gender Perspectives The Native American Patient 107(22) Gerry Cox The Male Patient 129(16) Reverend Robert Miller The Female Patient 145(8) Reverend Karrie Oertli The Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgendered Patient 153(10) Reverend Sue Jelinek SECTION 4: Health Care and Spirituality: Patient Perspectives The Medical Patient: Compassionate Listening and Spirit-Mind-Body Care of Medical Patients 163(16) Reverend Laurel Arthur Burton The Chronically III Patient 179(10) Reverend John Vander Zee The HIV-AIDS Patient: Holier than Thou 189(14) Inge B. Corless Variance (Poem) 201(2) Reverend Denise A. Ryder The Alzheimers Patient 203(8) Rabbi Earl A. Grollman The Obstetrics Patient 211(24) Cathi Lammert The Trauma Patient 235(10) Reverend Paul Bierlein The Addicted Patient 245(12) Reverend John A. Mac Dougall The Terminally III Pediatric Patient 257(12) Frances Dominica The Terminally III Adult Patient 269(12) Reverend Jon Nyberg The Victim of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 281(12) Sharon Gilbert Reverend Richard B. Gilbert Symphony (Poem) 291(2) Reverend Denise A. Ryder Contributors 293(6) Index 299
The Rev'd. Richard B. Gilbert, D.Min., PhD., FAAGC, is the executive director of The World Pastoral Care Center. An ordained Anglican priest he has presented throughout the United States and internationally on bereavement, health care, spirituality and pastoral care
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