MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 10, 2010
/24-7PressRelease/ -- In "Positive Spirituality in Health Care: Nine Practical Approaches to Pursuing Wholeness for Clinicians, Patients, and Health Care Organizations," (Mill City Press, ISBN 978-1-936107-47-6, February 2010, $21.95) Doctor Fred Craigie, PhD, draws on his over 25 years of experience at the crossroads of spirituality and health care to lay out nine feasible approaches to making spiritual care a more integrated part of the larger health care world. Over the last 20 years, interest in the convergence of spirituality and healthcare has grown steadily, as has the body of research identifying the positive links between spirituality and overall health. Many clinicians understand these links and appreciate the health benefits of spirituality; however, they are often unsure of how to bring spirituality into their professional lives, citing lack of time, training and skill. "Positive Spirituality in Health Care" offers a fresh, holistic and practical framework for the integration of spirituality in health care.
Dr. Craigie proposes that excellent spiritual care arises from three arenas:
• the personal groundedness and spiritual well-being of clinicians
• the clinical encouragement of patients' spiritual resources
• the organizational cultivation of spirited leadership and "soul"
Through stories, interview transcripts, research perspectives and personal wisdom, Dr. Craigie describes specific strategies that will enable health care practitioners to improve their skills in all of these arenas. "Practical Spirituality in Health Care" also delves into the unique and important role spiritual wellbeing plays in the lives clinicians and the contributions they make to spiritual care, practical templates for discussing spiritual care with patients and the qualities of empowering organizational "soul" that can vastly improve both patient and practitioner health care experience.
For more information on "Positive Spirituality in Health Care" or Dr. Craigie, please visit http://www.positivespirituality.net.
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