Spiritual assessment in healthcare practice [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Wilfred McSherry and Linda Ross ; with a foreword by Androulla Johnstone

• Pubblicazione: Keswick, England, : M & K, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.5
• Soggetto topico: Spiritual care (Medical care); Patients - Religious life
• Altri autori: McSherryWilfred RossLinda JohnstoneAndroulla
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Prelims; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Why the increasing interest in spirituality within healthcare?; Chapter 2 The meanings of spirituality: a multi-perspective approach to 'the spiritual'; Chapter 3 Recognising spiritual needs; Chapter 4 Spiritual assessment: definition, categorisation and features; Chapter 5 The spiritual history: an essential element of patient-centred care; Chapter 6 Indicator-based and value clarification tools; Chapter 7 Assessing and improving the quality of spiritual care; Chapter 8 Dilemmas of spiritual assessment ; Chapter 9 Considerations for the future of spiritual assessment Index
• Sommario/riassunto: There has been a groundswell of interest in and recognition of the importance the spiritual part of a person's life has to play in coping with/recovery from illness as well as in the attainment and maintenance of health, well being and quality of life. Addressing the spiritual part of life is now a key part of the health care professional's job but this raises the question of how this part of life can be assessed and catered for and how health care professionals might be equipped for this task. Wilf McSherry and Linda Ross's new edited text tackles this very issue with contributors from different
• Titolo autorizzato: Spiritual assessment in healthcare practice
• ISBN: 1-282-79000-5; 9786612790003; 1-907830-27-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781007503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II