A Spirituality Of Caregiving

Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Henri Nouwen Spirituality
ISBN 13 : 9780835810456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spirituality of Caregiving written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Henri Nouwen Spirituality. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Nouwen shares heartfelt insights on what it means to be a caregiver and to be cared for and how the caregiving relationship can lead to spiritual growth

Author : Verna Benner Carson
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932031553
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Caregiving written by Verna Benner Carson and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare providers are faced with a daunting job. Daily, they have encounters with those who are wounded and broken by disease - physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual disease. Patients look to their caregivers for healing, for advice, for comfort and solace.

Author : Ray Sherman Anderson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781843107460
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Caregiving as Secular Sacrament written by Ray Sherman Anderson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores spirituality in the context of the individual and of society, and discusses how those practicing pastoral or health care can deal with the issues raised outside of any religious ideas or practice. Anderson shows how professionals can help people move towards a more positive state in the face of pain, distress and illness.

Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Upper Room Books
ISBN 13 : 083581162X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spirituality of Living written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the secret to living a spiritual life? So much is happening in our world that we often get distracted and listen to voices other than the voice of God. "If we want to be disciples of Jesus, we have to live a disciplined life," Nouwen asserts. In the spiritual life, discipline requires conscious effort to keep every area in life from being filled up. It means creating space in our life for God to act and speak. Nouwen identifies 3 essential disciplines for maintaining a life of discipleship: solitude, community, and ministry. In solitude we learn to listen to God through prayer. We realize that we are beloved sons and daughters of God. In community we learn to celebrate, as well as to practice vulnerability and forgiveness. After we have experienced solitude and community, we feel God's call to minister to a hurting world. God empowers us to do amazing things. This encouraging, insightful book will inspire you to practice solitude, community, and ministry. The result, Nouwen promises, is a fruitful, Spirit-filled life.

Author : Kenneth C. Haugk
Publisher : Augsburg Books
ISBN 13 : 9780806627045
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Caregiving, a Way of Life written by Kenneth C. Haugk and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete leader's guide makes it easy to use Dr. Haugk's practical book to build community and train church members in distinctively Christian caring and relating skills.

Author : Marjorie J. Thompson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514005573
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courage for Caregivers written by Marjorie J. Thompson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the writings and wisdom of Henri J. M. Nouwen's themes of caregiving, Marjorie J. Thompson offers a vulnerable exploration of caregiving intertwined with both her own many years of intimate caregiving of family members and collected stories of caregivers in varied settings and stages of life. While not shying away from the demanding physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges of caregiving, Courage for Caregivers also celebrates the gifts of caregiving grounded in the belovedness both caregiver and care receiver share in God's eyes. Practical leader guides and resources make Courage for Caregivers a tool that moves smoothly from individual encouragement to group and congregational ministry to develop support for the universal experience of caregiving.

Author : Wendy Cadge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469667614
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century written by Wendy Cadge and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendy Cadge and Shelly Rambo demonstrate the urgent need, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to position the long history and practice of chaplaincy within the rapidly changing landscape of American religion and spirituality. This book provides a much-needed road map for training and renewing chaplains across a professional continuum that spans major sectors of American society, including hospitals, prisons, universities, the military, and nursing homes. Written by a team of multidisciplinary experts and drawing on ongoing research at the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University, Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century identifies three central competencies—individual, organizational, and meaning-making—that all chaplains must have, and it provides the resources for building those skills. Featuring profiles of working chaplains, the book positions intersectional issues of religious diversity, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other markers of identity as central to the future of chaplaincy as a profession.

Author : Edward M. Smink
Publisher : Wise Media Group
ISBN 13 : 9781629672243
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Caregiving (Revised Edition): A Caregiver's Guide to Healing and Transformation written by Edward M. Smink and published by Wise Media Group. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Revised Edition Who are the caregivers? We all are, for at the heart of being human is the capacity to care, to reach out to others and explore the relationships we build. The Soul of Caregiving is about us, and how we, as caregivers, serve, even sacrifice, for those in need. I invite you to explore with me how we can partake in a kind of sacred journey exploring our experiences as caregivers. Who will be your guide on this journey? Unlike other pilgrims who have a guide assigned to them, you will soon discover it is your own Soul guiding you. We may be professionally skilled to meet the needs of others, but we must also learn to stop and rest. It is not a waste of time, but rather, a necessity. We need time to ponder, reflect, and grow from our experiences. Not an easy endeavor amid a whirlwind of activity. We, as caregivers, experience vulnerability, helplessness, fears, and pain over the traumatic events we experience because we care. We care about those whom we are called to serve. Compassion fatigue arises because we care. Overview of the Chapters Chapter 1 begins by outlying the tension most caregivers experience: the tension their own needs and the needs of those they care for. I call this tension the Dance of Caregiving. Chapter 2 discusses the importance of discovering interior strengths and values where one discovers Soul. Chapter 3 emphasizes caregivers do not care in a vacuum, as there are broad cultural boundaries and expectations which affect them and shape their behaviors. Chapter 4 describes The Archetype of Caregiving, both its strengths and shadow sides. This archetype also relates to several other leadership archetypes, which are also discussed. Chapter 5 discusses hospitality. This chapter positions the caregiver as the host who experiences three different dimensions of hospitality: to host the stranger, to listen to the stories of the guest, and to reflect on their reactions and experiences. Chapter 6 address the frailty of humankind and the notion that we are wounded healers. Chapter 7 addresses the art of reflection as a fundamental skill for caregivers. Chapter 8 argues that the essential actions of a caregiver are spiritual. Chapter 9 explores how the ordinary becomes spiritual as inner strengths and values give birth to meaning, insight, and transformation. Chapter 10 explores compassion fatigue and its two sisters, secondary traumatic stress disorder and burnout. In this chapter, we learn how to recover from compassion fatigue and burnout by building compassion resilience. At the end of each chapter, the reader is invited to ponder and reflect. Your insights are the gold hidden beneath the sands of confusion. Mining these insights will lead to a greater understanding of your strengths and values. The questions at the end of each chapter help facilitate this process.

Author : Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763722395
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayer in Nursing written by Mary Elizabeth O'Brien and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayer in Nursing: The Spirituality of Compassionate Caregiving examines the role of prayer in the life of a nurse from a variety of perspectives, including: the history of prayer in nursing, the importance of prayer in contemporary caregiving, caring nurse-patient relationships, and the connection between prayer and a healing ministry. To encourage the practice of prayer, each chapter begins with a meditation and ends with a prayer reflective of a nurse's spirituality.

Author : Christina Puchalski
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599473712
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Health Care Whole written by Christina Puchalski and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifteen years, the field of palliative care has experienced a surge in interest in spirituality as an important aspect of caring for seriously ill and dying patients. While spirituality has been generally recognized as an essential dimension of palliative care, uniformity of spiritual care practice has been lacking across health care settings due to factors like varying understandings and definitions of spirituality, lack of resources and practical tools, and limited professional education and training in spiritual care. In order to address these shortcomings, more than forty spiritual and palliative care experts gathered for a national conference to discuss guidelines for incorporating spirituality into palliative care. Their consensus findings form the basis of Making Health Care Whole. This important new resource provides much-needed definitions and charts a common language for addressing spiritual care across the disciplines of medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, psychology, and other groups. It presents models of spiritual care that are broad and inclusive, and provides tools for screening, assessment, care planning, and interventions. This book also advocates a team approach to spiritual care, and specifies the roles of each professional on the team. Serving as both a scholarly review of the field as well as a practical resource with specific recommendations to improve spiritual care in clinical practice, Making Health Care Whole will benefit hospices and palliative care programs in hospitals, home care services, and long-term care services. It will also be a valuable addition to the curriculum at seminaries, schools of theology, and medical and nursing schools.