Category: Research
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The Role Of Spirituality in Coping for Hospice Patients
Christina M. Puchalski, MD, MS. Patients who are spiritual may utilize their beliefs in coping with illness, pain, and life stresses. Some studies indicate that those who are spiritual tend to have a more positive outlook and a better quality of life. For example, patients with advanced cancer who found comfort from their religious and…
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What Counts as Spirituality?
James W. Green.
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The Chaplain’s Role in Patient Confidentiality
By Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, MDiv, RN
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Gerald May: The Chaplain as Physician
Samuel Blair.
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Is end of life a Bioethical Crisis or Spiritual Crisis?
John Hardwig. When I am dying, I am quite sure that the central issues for me will not be whether I am put on a ventilator, whether CPR is attempted when my heart stops, or whether I receive artificial feeding. Although each of these could be important, each will almost certainly be quite peripheral. Rather,…
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What is the value of spiritual care at Life’s end?
Melissa J. Hart. How does spiritual care help people who are facing life-limiting illness to find courage and equanimity? How does it help people find balance, comfort, and strength? The added dimension that spiritual care brings to hospice and palliative medicine has enormous capacity to improve the quality of life for patients, for families, and for physicians. Attending to the…
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When death hits close to home: A Hospice Chaplain’s reflection.
Samuel Blair. Within a period of 6 months, two of the nurses I work with lost their mothers. In both of these cases, they chose to have their mothers on our hospice. This is a very hard thing to do. It was awkward for a while for all of us at team especially to be…
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Stuck in Grief?
By Kenneth J. Doka, M.Div., Ph.D. Sometimes individuals share with me that they or someone they know are “stuck in grief.” Yet, I always wonder what individuals mean when they say “stuck in grief.” Sometimes when I think of someone stuck in grief, I know they are having a more complicated reaction to grief. Here the…
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Excerpt from the Book “Grief Is a Journey” – Chapter 1—The Myths of Grief
Myth # 1: Grief Is a Predictable Process Wouldn’t it be wonderful if grief was predictable! If we knew what we would experience, when we would experience grief, and just how long it would last. Some of our earliest views on grief looked at grief as an illness. As with many illnesses, there was a…
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