Chapter 1: What does spirituality mean for patients, practitioners and healthcare organisations?
Chapter 2: Spirituality in Western Multicultural Societies
Chapter 3: Spiritually competent practice in healthcare: what is it and what does it look like?
Chapter 4: How Two Practitioners Conceptualise Spiritually Competent Practice
Chapter 5: How Can Spirituality be Integrated in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education
Chapter 6: Supporting the Practitioner.
Chapter 7: Spirituality in acute healthcare settings
Chapter 8: Spirituality and mental health
Chapter 9 Spirituality in the Primary Care Setting
Chapter 10 Spiritual Teamwork within End of Life Care
Chapter 11: Creative Organisations: spirituality and creativity in a health setting
Chapter 12: Using social role valorisation to make services sensitive to spiritual need
Chapter 13: A Vision for the future
John Wattis has many years’ experience of working as an academic
consultant in psychiatry for older people and in medical
management, and has co-authored many research and educational
papers in these areas. Over the last 20 years or so he has
developed a particular interest in issues around spirituality in
healthcare. He is co-author or co-editor of a number of books
concerning aspects of old age psychiatry and management and
leadership in medicine. He is a founder member of the Spirituality
Special Interest Group (SSIG) in the School of Human and Health
Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, and is co-supervisor of
a number of PhD students working in the field of Spirituality and
Healthcare. A number of his recent publications, co-authored by
members of the SSIG have been in the field of Spirituality and
Healthcare.
Stephen Curran has many years’ experience as a consultant in old
age psychiatry and has a particular interest in the biological and
pharmacological aspects of psychiatry. He believes this needs to be
accompanied by good, humane inter-personal care. He is an
experienced teacher of old age psychiatry and supervisor of
psychiatrists in training. He has published research, books,
chapters and educational papers in the psychiatry of old age.
Melanie Rogers has worked as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in
Primary Care as well as running the MSc Advanced Nurse Practitioner
course at the University of Huddersfield for many years. She is
passionate about holistic care and working with patients to offer
hope during times of illness and crisis. Her PhD focuses on
Spirituality in Primary Care and she has spoken internationally and
nationally about this. She is a founder member of the SSIG and
British Association for the Study of Spirituality executive
committee member. She was awarded the Queen’s Nurse title in 2008
for her commitment to patient care and education
This book will be of tremendous use to all healthcare professionals from physicians to nurses to social workers, rehabilitation therapists, and chaplains. The pathway taken here is a sensible and reasonable one, emphasizing a patient-centred approach that underscores the importance of spiritually competent care. The Editors do an excellent job of describing how to integrate spirituality into patient care for all of the different healthcare professionals. They also emphasize the importance of an evidence-based approach that is guided by research. This book provides superb guidelines that will be enormously helpful to every healthcare professional.Harold G Koenig, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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