Spiritual Care at the End of Life | Free Book
Chaplains in healthcare settings offer patients spiritual care that
involves companionship, counselling and maintaining hope. This is
particularly important at the point where a patient has run out of
treatment possibilities. This book reflects creatively on the work
that chaplains do with people who are dying and the unique quality
of the relationship that palliative care professionals construct
with patients at the end of life.
Based on qualitative
research with practising palliative care chaplains, Spiritual Care
at the End of Life explores the nature of hope in its different
forms at different stages of terminal illness, and asks how
chaplains can help dying people to be hopeful even when facing the
inevitability of their death. The book identifies key moments in
this relationship, from the person's initial reaction to the
chaplain, to the chaplain becoming an accompanying presence and
creating the potential to provide comfort, strength and "hope in the
present".
This thoughtful and inquisitive book
investigates the underlying theory that spiritual care is rooted in
relationship. It has implications for practice in the work of
chaplains, counsellors and all healthcare professionals supporting
people who are dying.
In The Press
This is an extraordinary book. Steve Nolan invites his readers to enter into those intimate moments between the health care professional and the person who is dying in which hopes and fears are held together in sometimes painful but beautiful experiences of spiritual integrity. The book draws on material from interviews with hospice chaplains, but its insights into spiritual care have much to offer any worker in palliative care services. Using the concept of 'dwelling', Nolan explores the idea of the worker as 'presence' - a dynamic interaction between two people in proximity to death in which my death and death of another become fused. We often talk about empathy in this field, but Steve Nolan has explored empathy with the person who is dying in all its demanding, challenging and privileging richness.
- Title: Spiritual Care at the End of Life | Free Book
- Author: Steven
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