All of Me

Patient-Centered Spirituality for Holistic Caregiving

Helen T. Boursier (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2026
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-9341-9 (ISBN)

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All of Me illuminates how chaplains, hospital caregivers, and clergy can provide spiritual care for those who are sick, in hospitals, preparing for surgery, or recovering. Based on interviews with forty hospital and ER patients about their experiences, lessons learned, and insights gained while receiving care, Boursier weaves these accounts together with interdisciplinary literature from medical and social sciences, ethics, philosophy, spirituality, theology, and religious studies. The result is a resource that offers both insight and practical tools for practitioners and students, showing how spiritually informed compassionate care can be cultivated through identifying, respecting, and supporting spirituality to foster holistic patient well-being.

Helen T. Boursier, PhD, is a public theologian, educator, author, artist, and ordained minister who has taught spirituality through a justice-informed lens to nursing and social work students for a decade, including at the College of St. Scholastica. Her recent books include Art as Witness: A Practical Theology of Arts-Based Research (2021); Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum (2022); and Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders (2024). All of Me is her twentieth book.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Essence (of Spirituality)
2 Misconceptions
3 Cognitive Dissonance Nets Spiritual Disjuncture
4 Systems, Protocols and Procedures
5 Risk and Vulnerability
6 Dignity
7 Spiritual Distress
8 Intersections: Spirituality as All of Me
9 (Reducing) Death Anxiety
10 (Attitude) Reorientation
11 Sacred Space
12 Caring Presence
13 Advocacy for (Patient) Agency
14 (Spiritual) Call to Action
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-9341-8 / 1538193418
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-9341-9 / 9781538193419
Zustand	Neuware