Based on a two-year national process to develop consensus on best practices, this book is a clear statement of values integral to palliative and patient-centered health care as well as a guide for incorporating them into teaching and clinical settings.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers
For more information on this title and its authors, click here.
Sara Wilson comments: This is an outstanding book! It is research based, well written in a conversational style. You feel as if Dr Koenig is speaking to you. It describes how spirituality is linked to positive health outcomes, how to assess patients of any spirituality belief, and how to intervene to help them use their spirituality to improve their health. I use it in a course entitled Spirituality in Nursing.
Read other comments about Spirituality in Patient Carehere.
Every now and then, we publish books on subjects that seem to resist quick summarization. Such is the case with Sacred Desire by Nancy Morrison, MD, and Sally Severino, MD. Within the pages of this book, readers will find fascinating new insights into the workings of the human brain. Some of these insights carry such broad-reaching implications that it can be hard to fully answer the question, what is it about? Fortunately, the authors have created a beautiful video that does just that. Check it out!
Also, be sure to visit their site: www.neurospirit.net
At last week’s AAHPM meeting, some members of the Press staff had the opportunity to finally meet face-to-face with the authors of Making Health Care Whole: Christina Puchalski and Betty Ferrell. We could not have been more impressed with them, and we left feeling extra excited to share their work with as many people as possible. The video below is part one of a great two-part series that we found on Youtube, highlighting some of the great work that is being done by half of this dynamic duo. Check it out!
Dr. Stephen Sapp, Professor and Chair of Religion Studies at the University of Miami, recently wrote an interesting article in The Gerontologist titled What Have Religion and Spirituality to Do with Aging? Three Approaches.
Sapp’s three approaches consisted of three recently published books on aging and spirituality, one in which was a Templeton Press publication, Aging in the Church by Neal M. Krause.
Neal Krause says that the purpose of Aging in the Church “is to examine how social relationships that arise in church affect the physical and mental health of older men and women” (p. 3). He accomplishes his goal in this comprehensive yet comprehensible compilation of a great deal of social–scientific research (both his own and that of others) on the role that involvement in Christian congregations plays in various health outcomes among elders. The most empirical of the three books, this one pulls together a wealth of information in one place for researchers interested in its subject, as well as for those who might want to make a case that “going to church is good for you.”
To learn more about Aging in the Church, click here.
Press staff will also be on hand at the booth, if you have any book proposals that you think might be a good fit for our list (you can familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines here).
Dr. Harold Koenig will present the Robert W. Root Lecture entitled Religion, Spirituality and Health: Definitions, Research and Clinical Applications at Washington and Lee University on Tuesday, February 16.
The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held from 4:40 – 6:00 p.m. in the Stackhouse Theatre of Elrod Commons.
Ever since the first edition of Verna Benner Carson’s Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice went out of print, second-hand copies have been highly sought after by practitioners in the field and nursing school faculty who appreciated the comprehensive scope of the seminal work on spirituality and health. In this highly anticipated revised edition, Carson and her co-editor, Harold G. Koenig, have thoroughly revised and updated this classic in the field.
Click here for more information on Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice.
This Sunday, November 8th, kick starts the 137th Annual APHA meeting and exposition. Press staff will be exhibiting at Booth #1347. This will be our first time exhibiting at APHA. We are extremely excited to meet new individuals and show off our publications. If you’re at the show stop by, say hello, and receive details on how to win a NEW iPod touch!
In its November 2010 issue, Choice reviewed Making Health Care Whole by Christina M. Puchalski and Betty Ferrell.
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