Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare

by Mark Cobb, Christina M Puchlaski, Bruce Rumbold

Overview

The relationship between spirituality and healthcare is historical, intellectual and practical, and it has now emerged as a significant field in health research, healthcare policy and clinical practice and training. Understanding health and wellbeing requires addressing spiritual and existential issues, and healthcare is therefore challenged to respond to the ways spirituality is experienced and expressed in illness, suffering, healing and loss. If healthcare has compassionate regard for the humanity of those it serves, it is faced with questions about how it understands and interprets spirituality, what resources it should make available and how these are organised, and the ways in which spirituality shapes and informs the purpose and practice of healthcare? These questions are the basis for this resource, which presents a coherent field of enquiry, discussion and debate that is interdisciplinary, international and vibrant.

There is a growing corpus of articles in medical and healthcare journals on spirituality in addition to a wide range of literature, but there has been no attempt so far to publish a standard text on this subject. Spirituality in Healthcare is an authoritative reference on the subject providing unequalled coverage, critical depth and an integrated source of key topics. Divided into six sections including practice, research, policy and training, the project brings together international contributions from scholars in the field to provide a unique and stimulating resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198717386
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	Oxford Textbooks in Public Health
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 10.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mark Cobb, Clinical Director and Senior Chaplain, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK,Christina Puchalski, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Director, The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish), USA,Bruce Rumbold, Director, Palliative Care Unit,, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia

Mark Cobb is a Senior Chaplain and a Clinical Director at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and holds honorary academic posts at the University of Sheffield and the University of Liverpool. He has a multidisciplinary education across science and the humanities and has experience working in the community, voluntary and acute health sectors.

Christina M. Puchalski is founding Director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) in Washington, D.C. and a Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University. Dr. Puchalski is a pioneer and leader in the movement to integrate spirituality into healthcare in both the clinical setting and in medical education. Her work continues to break ground in the clinical, academic, and pastoral understanding of spiritual care as an essential element of healthcare. She is an active clinician, board certified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care. Her accolades include the 2009 George Washington University Distinguished Alumni Award and 2011 Outstanding Colleague Award from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is also a member of the contemplative Carmelite lay community. Dr. Puchalski has authored many publications and been featured in numerous print and television media.

Bruce Rumbold is Director of the Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University, where his responsibilities include coordinating health promoting palliative care and spiritual care academic programs alongside developing public health approaches to end of life care. His multidisciplinary interests are supported by postgraduate qualifications in physics, practical theology and health social science. Prior to joining La Trobe he was from 1986-2002 foundation professor of pastoral studies at Whitley College, an affiliated teaching institution of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Social determinants of end of life experience, and spiritual care, are the particular focus of his current wor

Table of Contents

Forward, Edmund PellegrinoPreface, Mark Cobb, Christina Puchalski and Bruce RumboldI Traditions1. Medicine and Religion: A historical perspective, Gary B Ferngren2. Buddhism: Perspectives for the contemporary world, Kathleen Gregory3. Chinese Religion: Taoism, Russell Kirkland4. Christianity, Alister E McGrath5. Feminist Spirituality, Susan A Ross6. Indian Religion and the Ayurvedic Tradition, Prakash N Desai7. . The Western Humanist Tradition, Stan van Hooft8. Indigenous Spiritualties, Graham Harvey9. Islam, Abdulaziz Sachedina10. Judaism, Dan Cohn-Sherbok11. 'New Age' Spirituality, Paul Heelas12. Philosophy, Graham Oppy13. Secularism, Trevor Stammers and Stephen Bullivant14. Sikhism, Eleanor NesbittII Concepts15. Healthcare spirituality: A question of knowledge, John Swinton16. Personhood, Rosalie Hudson17. Belief, Mark Cobb18. Hope, Jaklin Eliott19. Meaning Making, Laurie A Burke and Robert A Neimeyer20. Compassion: Luxury or Necessity?, Susan Walker and Carol Taylor21. Dignity: A Novel Path into the Spiritual Landscape of the Human Heart, Harvey Chochinov and Shane Sinclair22. Cure and Healing, Lodovico Balducci and H. Lee Modditt23. Suffering, Betty Ferrell and Catherine del Ferraro24. Ritual, Douglas J Davies25. Culture and Religion, Peter van der VeerIII Practice26. Models of Spiritual Care, Bruce Rumbold27. Healthcare Chaplaincy, Chris Swift, George Handzo and Jeffrey Cohen28. Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine, Margaret L Stuber and Brandon Horn29. Restorative Medicine, Christina M Puchalski30. Nursing, Wilfred McSherry and Linda Ross31. Faith Community (Parish) Nursing, Anne van Loon32. Psychiatry and Mental Health Treatment, James L Griffith33. Social Work, Margaret Holloway34. Care of Children, Patricia Fosarelli35. Care of elderly people, Elizabeth MacKinlay36. Palliative Care, Jacqueline Ellis and Mari Lloyd-Williams37. Spirituality and the arts: Discovering what really matters, Nigel Hartley38. Care of the Soul, Michael Kearney and Radhule Weininger39. Counselling, William West40. Dignity Conserving Care, Shane Sinclair and Harvey M Chochinov41. Pastoral Theology in healthcare settings: Blessed irritant for holistic human care, Emmanuel Y Lartey42. Next Steps for spiritual assessment in healthcare, George FitchettIV Research43. Methodology, David J Hufford44. Measures, Arndt Bussing45. On the links between religion and health: What has empirical research taught us?, Hisham Abu-Raiya and Kenneth I Pargament46. Quality of Life, Bella Vivat47. Cognitive Sciences: A perspective on spirituality and religious experience, Kevin S Seybold48. Spiritual Well-Being Scale: Mental and Physical Health Relationships, Raymond F Paloutzian, Rodger K Bufford and Ashley J Wildman49. Prayer and Meditation, Marek Jantos50. Resiliency and Coping, Gregory Fricchione and Shamim Nejad51. Spiritual experience, practice and community, Fiona GardnerV Policy and Education. 52. Policy, Bruce Rumbold, Christina Puchalski, Mark Cobb53. Healthcare Organizations: Corporate spirituality, Neil Pembroke54. Utility and Commissioning of Spiritual Carers, Lindsay B Carey55. Social Care, Holly Nelson-Becker and Mary Pat Sullivan56. Curriculum Development, Courses and CPE, Christina Puchalski, Bruce Rumbold, Mark Cobb, Angelike A Zollfrank and Catherine F Garlid57. Competences in spiritual care education and training, Ewan Kelly58. Guidance from the Humanities for Professional Formation, Nathan Carlin, Thomas Cole and Henry Strobel59. Training and Formation: A case study, Fiona Gardner60. Interdisciplinary teamwork, Peter Speck61. Ethical Principles for Spiritual Care, Daniel P SulmasyVI Challenges62. Contemporary Spirituality, David Tacey63. The Future of Religion, Grace Davie and Martyn Percy64. The Future of Spirituality and Healthcare, Mark Cobb, Bruce Rumbold and Christina Puchalski

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Patricia E. Murphy, PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: An underlying premise of this book is that healthcare is not just about disease, but about what disease does to the person, and it acknowledges that spiritual questions and answers vary from person to person. This is a comprehensive and well-organized discussion of spirituality that encompasses spiritual traditions, concepts, practice, research, policy and education, and challenges. Individual chapters stand on their own, synthesizing a wealth of current thought and research.
Purpose: The editors address the need to integrate spirituality throughout healthcare as a way to respond to the human dimension of illness that comes with suffering and the questions of meaning that suffering provokes. Moving spirituality from the hands of a few specialists to healthcare providers as a whole calls for education.
Audience: Inclusive of worldwide spiritual traditions, and addressing diverse diagnostic groups, the book is useful to practitioners and students in different international settings. It also addresses research issues, including measures, making the book a helpful resource for those interested in examining the relationship of spirituality and health. The editors bring a broad healthcare perspective from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Many chapter authors are the experts in their fields.
Features: The book strives to fill some of the gaps in knowledge about spirituality for many healthcare providers. Good education cannot provide all the answers about the spiritual dimensions of patients, but it can offer a solid array of tools. Acknowledging the difficulty in defining spirituality as well as in distinguishing it from religion, the authors provide information on concepts based on spiritual traditions across the globe. The section on research into spirituality and health outcomes provides concise summaries of the psychometric properties and nuances of some of the validated instruments used in this research.
Assessment: This book complements the monumental work, Handbook of Religion and Health, 2nd edition, Koenig et al. (Oxford University Press, 2012). The recently published two-volume set, APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, Pargament et al. (American Psychological Association, 2013), brings another valuable resource to help further a deeper understanding of the interplay of spirituality and well-being as well as to address spirituality in patient care. A unique aspect of this Oxford Textbook is its encyclopedic style that makes it easy to access information as a given question arises. By offering several broad perspectives, the book engages readers in thoughtfully developing personal responses while learning to address patients' needs as part of a healthcare team.

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