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This practical guide addresses the issues of spirituality in health care, emphasising the role of organisations in developing a culture of leadership and management that facilitates spiritual care. Spirituality is a central part of holistic care that addresses physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of care in an integrated way. At the practitioner level, rather than addressing "spirituality" as a purely theoretical concept, chapters describe spiritually competent practice and show how it can be taught and put into practice in a variety of areas.
List of contents
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
About the author
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
