Hope and Grace

Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying

Monika Renz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2016
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78592-030-1 (ISBN)

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Introducing a specialised approach to the spiritual care of patients, this book explores how you can understand different types of spiritual experience among suffering patients and engage with them creatively as an essential part of good care. Case studies enable you to work confidently with religious and non-religious people in your care.

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying. Moved beyond their everyday consciousness, individuals often have spiritual experiences of grace and encounters with the transcendent or the divine. The author shows how care providers can support patients in their suffering and how they can recognize patients' spiritual experiences. Explaining different types of experiences of transcendence such as seeing angels or feelings of otherness and presence, this book will be of valuable use to professionals working in palliative and spiritual care, such as spiritual caregivers, therapists, nurses, and physicians. The book entails a new approach to spiritual care which opens a space of hope wherein grace may happen even amid pain, suffering, illness and dying.

Monika Renz holds doctorates in psychopathology and theology from the universities of Zurich, Fribourg, and Innsbruck. She is head of the psycho-oncology department at Kantonsspital St. Gallen, where she has been a practicing music therapist, psychotherapist and spiritual counsellor since 1998. She is the author of a number of books drawing on her research into dying, spirituality and spiritual care. Find out more at www.monikarenz.ch.

Introduction. 1. Spirituality is Experience. 2. Between Two Worlds: The Liminal Sphere and Its Laws. 3. Hope for Grace. 4. Experience of Transcendence as Reality and Grace. 5. Experiences of Angels and Darkness. 6. Experiences of God and the Divine. 7. Being or Relationship?. 8. Spiritual Care between Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care. 9. Spiritual Care Interventions. Appendix. References.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2016
Übersetzer	Mark Kyburz
Zusatzinfo	diagrams in the appendix
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 215 mm
Gewicht	252 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
ISBN-10	1-78592-030-8 / 1785920308
ISBN-13	978-1-78592-030-1 / 9781785920301
Zustand	Neuware