Spirituality and Health

Multidisciplinary Explorations
Herausgeber: Meier, Augustine; Vankatwyk, Peter L; O'Connor, Thomas St James

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Produktbeschreibung

Spirituality and Health: Multidisciplinary Explorations examines the relationship between health/well-being and spirituality. Chap-lains and pastoral counsellors offer evidence-based research on the importance of spirituality in holistic health care, and practitioners in the fields of occupational therapy, clinical psychology, nursing, and oncology share how spirituality enters into their healing practices. Unique for its diversity, this collection explores the relationship between biomedical, psychological, and spiritual points of view about health and healing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780889204775
• ISBN-10: 0889204772
• Artikelnr.: 42342516

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Spirituality and Health: Multidisciplinary Explorations, edited by
Augustine Meier, Thomas St. James O'Connor, and Peter VanKatwyck
About the editors
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Faith Perspectives and Challenges
1. Towards a Joint Paradigm Reconciling Faith and Research Thomas St.
James O'Connor and Elizabeth Meakes
2. A Critical Dialogue between Theology and Psychology Paul J. Rennick
3. Assessing Plurality in Spirituality Definitions Pam McCarroll, Thomas
St. James O'Connor, and Elizabeth Meakes
4. Spirituality and Family Medicine Cheryl Levitt
5. Congregational Life after Abuse Carol Penner
6. Islamic Spiritual Care in a Health Care Setting Nazila Isgandarova
Part 2: Spiritual Practices in Health Care
7. Communication in Spiritual Care among People with Dementia Ellen
Bouchard Ryan, Lori Schindel Martin, and Amanda Beaman
8. Spirituality and Addiction Lori Edey
9. Spirituality in Occupation Therapy Sue Baptiste
10. Using a Labyrinth in Spiritual Care Ingrid Bloos
11. A Wholistic Approach to Healing: An Individual, Family, and Community
Model Calvin Morrisseau
Part 3: Frontiers and Research
12. Old Religion, New Spirituality, and Healthcare Carlton F. Brown
13. God-Talk in the Spiritual Care of Palliative Patients Colleen Lashmar
14. Measuring and Assessing Suffering in Arthritic Patients Beverley
Clarke, A.R.M. Upton, Claudio Castellanos, and Mary Lou Schmuck
15. Psychosomatics and the Spiritual Entities of the Human Psyche
Marie-Line Morin
16. Life-Threatening Illness: A Dangerous Opportunity Beverly Musgrave
17. The Neurobiology of Consciousness and Spiritual Transformation in
Healing Stephen M. Sugar
Index
Contributors' Bios
Sue Baptiste is the assistant dean of Occupational Therapy at the School of
Rehabilitation Science in the Institute of Applied Health Sciences,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. One of her research interests is in
the area of occupational therapy and spirituality.
Amanda Beaman is a graduate student in clinical psychology at the Centre
for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
Past research included an examination of the many positive outcomes of
fostering person-centred communication with cognitively impaired older
adults, and the relationships between autobiographical memory, cognitive
ability, and interpersonal problem solving in older adults.
Ingrid Bloos is a family therapist in private practice in
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Her MTS thesis was on the labyrinth and
pastoral counselling. She has co-authored (with Tom O'Connor) an article on
the labyrinth and narrative therapy that was published in Pastoral
Psychology in 2002. She has given many workshops on using the labyrinth for
health and healing.
Carlton F. Brown is a specialist in pastoral counselling (CAPPE), an
associate teaching supervisor in CAPPE, and a clinical member of AAMFT. Mr.
Brown is in private practice and has done clinical work with mental health
clients.
Beverley Clarke is a professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and is a neurology associate in the
Division of Neurology. She has developed and implemented four free-standing
multidisciplinary courses in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster
University on the subject of the wounded spirit and health. She has also
published in the areas of epilepsy and physiotherapy, suffering in
physiotherapy practice, and suffering and cost containment, as well as on
the topics of cognitive motor control and postural instability in patients
who have received brain stimulators to control epileptic seizures.
Claudia Castellanos is a research assistant in the neurology program at
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Lori Edey is an International Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor
(ICADC). She is a teaching supervisor in the Canadian Association for
Pastoral Practice and Education (CAPPE) and assistant clinical professor of
family medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She currently
works as a counsellor and educator, with a strong interest in personal and
professional integration for physicians, clergy, and religious.
Nazila Isgandarova is a journalist who was educated in Azerbaijan and the
United Kingdom. She has completed her Ph.D. thesis on early translations of
the Qur'an and is preparing for its defence in the United Kingdom. She was
a resident chaplain at St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, offering
spiritual care to Muslim and non-Muslim patients. She is married with two
children and is a practising Muslim. She has written three books, the most
recent being Land of Hope: Modern Political History of Azerbaijan (2004).
She also writes for the Hamilton Spectator.
Colleen Lashmar is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St.
Joseph, Hamilton, Ontario, and is the director of spiritual care at
Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Cambridge, Ontario. She is an adjunct
professor at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Waterloo, where she co-teaches in
aging and spirituality and health care. Colleen is a teaching supervisor in
the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education (CAPPE) and a
clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
(AAMFT). Her doctoral thesis was on God-talk and palliative care patients.
Cheryl Levitt is chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario. She was born in South Africa, trained there,
and did her internship at Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto. She left in 1977
for Canada and practised in rural British Columbia from 1977 to 1984. Dr.
Levitt has been an academic family physician since 1984 at McGill and
McMaster universities. She is involved in family medicine leadership at a
national, provincial, and local level, with involvement in primary care.
Dr. Levitt is an executive member of the Ontario College of Family
Medicine, and has published widely on primary care issues, medical
migration of foreign doctors, and maternal and child health.
Pam McCarroll was the continuing education coordinator at Knox College at
the University of Toronto. She has published a number of articles in
peer-reviewed journals. Her research work has focused on spirituality in
palliative care, quantity and types of research articles in various
databases, the Helping Styles Inventory (HSI), and the critique of theology
on health-care spirituality.
Elizabeth Meakes was a pastoral educator at St. Joseph's Healthcare in
Hamilton, Ontario, and is an adjunct professor at Waterloo Lutheran
Seminary, Waterloo, where she co-teaches graduate courses in aging and
gender and spirituality. Ms. Meakes has co-authored over ten articles
published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Pastoral Care &
Counseling, Pastoral Sciences, and the Journal of Religion, Disability &
Health. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Religion,
Disability & Health, and reviews manuscripts for astoral Sciences. Ms.
Meakes is a specialist in pastoral counselling in the Canadian Association
for Pastoral Practice and Education (CAPPE), and a clinical member of the
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
Marie-Line Morin is a professor of Pastoral Counselling at the Faculté de
théologie, d'éthique et de philosophie de l'Université de Sherbrooke,
Quebec. Her research interests relate to the concept of fundamental value
and its various applications to pastoral counselling. She is also
interested in applying the phenomenological method of research developed by
Amedeo Giorgi to analyze pastoral counselling experimentations.
Calvin Morrisseau is a member of the Couchiching First Nation near Fort
Frances, Ontario. Currently, he is the executive director of the
Giizhikaandag Healing Centre at Couchiching, Fort Frances. He has also held
the positions of the human and social services manager at the Couchiching
First Nation and program manager at the Weechi-it-te-win Child and Family
Services in Fort Frances. Based on his twenty years of training in
counselling and addiction studies, his education in traditional practices
by Aboriginal elders, healers, and teachers, and his personal recovery from
addictions, abuse, assimilation, racism, and poverty, he has written a
book, Into the Daylight, which presents a wholistic individual, family,
community, and spiritual model of healing. He facilitates workshops
relevant to the wholistic model that he advocates in his book.
Beverly Musgrave is an assistant professor in pastoral counselling and
spiritual care, Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education,
Fordham University, New York. She has completed training in pastoral
psychotherapy and psychoanalytic therapy at the Blanton-Peale Institute,
and has a clinical practice in pastoral counselling in New York City.
Professor Musgrave is a founder and former president of Partners in
Healing, and a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
She is co-editor of Partners in Healing: Bringing Compassion to People with
Illness or Loss (2003).
Carol Penner has taught theology at Conrad Grebel University College at the
University of Waterloo as well as religious studies at Brock University in
St. Catharines, Ontario. She has worked as a chaplain and a congregational
minister, and has published a number of articles in Consensus and The
Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling. She is currently pastoring a
Mennonite congregation in Vineland, Ontario.
Paul J. Rennick is the founding director of The Saint Basil Institute of
Counselling and Mental Health Education at Assumption University, Windsor,
Ontario. Before coming to Windsor, he was an in-patient therapist at Saint
Luke Institute, Silver Spring, Maryland, a private psychiatric hospital for
clergy and ministerial personnel from all over the world. He has graduate
degrees in both theology and counselling. Currently, he is Vice-President,
Academic, at Assumption University.
Ellen Bouchard Ryan is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioural Neurosciences and in gerontology at McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario. Supported for twenty years by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council, her research program addresses
intergenerational communication. She has developed aging models to
highlight the central role of communication in promoting personhood and
spirituality in later life. Dr. Ryan is a former director of gerontology at
McMaster, as well as a former chair of psychology at the University of
Notre Dame, Indiana.
Stephen M. Sagar is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and an oncologist at the Juravinski
Cancer Centre (formerly the Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre). He
contributes to the educational programs at the Center for Mind-Body
Medicine in Washington, DC. He is on the international editorial boards of
the evidence-based journals Focus on Alternative and Complementary
Therapies and Integrative Cancer Therapies.
Lori Schindel-Martin is director of the Ruth Sherman Centre for Research
and Education and a clinical nurse specialist in dementia care at Shalom
Village in Hamilton, Ontario. She is an assistant clinical professor at
McMaster University School of Nursing, and has completed her Ph.D. in
clinical and health sciences at McMaster.
Mary Lou Schmuck is a research assistant in the Programme for Educational
Research and Development at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
A.R.M. Upton is a professor of medicine in the area of neurology at
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Upton is also the head of the
Division of Neurology at Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, McMaster
Division.