Our goal is to start a new spiritual care discourse and widen the lens of spiritual care, providing a more capacious, humanist methodology that demonstrates how the sharing of our respective spiritual skills will enhance the work of each discipline in healthcare. In turn, these changes could lead to much needed cultural shifts and social transformation for a more holistic person-centered care and less moral distress for healthcare workers. This anthology addresses key gaps in the current spiritual care literature, highlighting the shared transdisciplinary skills clinicians possess to support patients' and families' emotional and spiritual needs, as well as our individual and collective vulnerability in hospital settings.

Redefines spiritual care as a shared, interdisciplinary practice across healthcare roles Bridges affect theory, decolonial thought, and humanist ethics in clinical care Centers emotional presence and relational care to reduce moral distress in healthcare

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Lori Klein (MA, JD, BCC) is a rabbi and board-certified chaplain at Stanford Health Care and Montage Health. 

Calvin Chou (MD, PhD) is Professor of Medicine at UCSF (UC San Francisco) in internal medicine.

Hellena Moon (AM, MDiv, PhD) is a writer and independent scholar (part-time at Oglethorpe University). 

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“This curated collection of essays provides precious insight into the role of spirituality in clinical care. This is an area of medicine where many of us lack the knowledge, language, and tools to best serve our patients. I am delighted to find a book that fills that gap.”

 Abraham Verghese MD, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

“This kaleidoscopic volume offers a refreshing take on spiritual care. It centers humanist values, upending time-worn assumptions to reframe resilience as “care activism” and models a decolonializing praxis that opens possibilities for holistic healing. In unearthing and uprooting what is not life-giving in hospital chaplaincy and capitalist-driven health systems, the authors kindle hope that a deep regard for shared vulnerability and interdependence will cultivate flourishing.”

 Rev. Susan Conrad, BCC, MDiv, ACPE Certified Educator (UCSF) & National Faculty

 “This book truly transforms how we understand the collective care of persons globally. Anyone with interest in caring for people should read this anthology.”

 Emmanuel Y. Lartey, PhD, DD (Honoris Causa)

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Spiritual Care, Emory University

Our goal is to start a new spiritual care discourse and widen the lens of spiritual care, providing a more capacious, humanist methodology that demonstrates how the sharing of our respective spiritual skills will enhance the work of each discipline in healthcare. In turn, these changes could lead to much needed cultural shifts and social transformation for a more holistic person-centered care and less moral distress for healthcare workers. This anthology addresses key gaps in the current spiritual care literature, highlighting the shared transdisciplinary skills clinicians possess to support patients’ and families’ emotional and spiritual needs, as well as our individual and collective vulnerability in hospital settings.

  Lori Klein (MA, JD, BCC) is a rabbi and board-certified chaplain at Stanford Health Care and Montage Health.  Calvin Chou (MD, PhD) is Professor of Medicine at UCSF (UC San Francisco) in internal medicine. 

Hellena Moon (AM, MDiv, PhD) is a writer and independent scholar (part-time at Oglethorpe University).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I Providing Renewed Decolonial Paradigms of Spiritual Care: Chapter 2: May I Cherish All Living Things: Decolonizing Spiritual Assessment.- Chapter 3: Hope, Faith, Gratitude, and Medicine.- Chapter 4: Spiritual Pain Evaluation as Comprehensive Assessment.- Chapter 5: Strength in Vulnerability, Hybridity, and Hospitality.- Chapter 6: Equity and Reparative Care: Addressing Psychosocial and Spiritual Challenges in Healthcare.- Part II Relationships as Foundational for Good Communication: Chapter 7: My Spiritual Journey Through Pediatric Oncology.- Chapter 8: From Assumption to Assessment: Questioning the Hegemony of Religion in Spiritual Care.- Chapter 9: It's Personal.- Chapter 10: Compassionate Listening as Foundational to Ethics.- Chapter 11: Transdisciplinary Palliative Care: Tuning in With Our Hearts, Minds, and Spirits.- Chapter 12: Be Still and Heal.- Part III How Death in Personal Life and Other Significant Encounters Changed Clinicians' Professional Practices: Chapter 13: Maranasati: When Cradle Becomes Grave.- Chapter 14: The Gift of Our Stories.- Chapter 15: An Occupational Hazard.- Chapter 16: Changing Standards, Changing Minds.- Chapter 17: Who Can Pray?.- Chapter 18: Bringing Healthcare into the Community: A Barbershop Story.- Part IV Moral Injury and Distress as Moral Violence: Chapter 19: Moral Distress: Our Invitation to Brave Vulnerability.- Chapter 20: Peer Support as a Path to Enhanced Well-Being.- Chapter 21: Healing Hierarchy: Deconstructing Moments of Care.- Chapter 22: Misunderstanding 'Miracles': A Chaplain's Perspective.- Chapter 23: A Journey to Justice: Transforming Care from Within.- Chapter 24: Compassion at the Center of Resilience: Rethinking Our Orientation to Suffering.- Part V Using the Arts and Creativity in Cultivating Relationships: Chapter 25: Tell Me My Story: Sister Stories.- Chapter 26: Westerns & Cowboys as Comfort Care for the Soul.- Chapter 27: The Mandolin.- Chapter 28: Use of the Arts and Self in Spiritual Care.- Chapter 29: Re-Imagining the Hospice-Based Memorial Service: Moving toward Interdependent, Collective Care.- Chapter 30: Vivace and Other Writings.