TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Responding to a Need
A Quality Improvement Project.
How to Use this Guidebook
Gently, slowly.
In the Hallway.
The Long Walk
Entering the Room - the patient is alone.
Crossing the threshold.
The Family is Here
Balancing a pastoral visit with the patient and the family or
friends.
The Team Will see You Now
A member of the medical team is in the room or nearby.
Staying in the Room
Drawing on pastoral skills to stay until the visit is complete.
The Spiritual Heart of the Visit
How to discover it.
Prayer
Every step is a prayer.
Summary of Skills
Teaching Resources
The Didactic
ChapTime list
Role Plays
Voices of Chaplains
Readings
Acknowledgements
How to deliver excellent spiritual care to patients who are unable to communicate, and their families
Linda Golding has worked as a Staff Chaplain at New
York-Presbyterian Hospital since 2010, chiefly involved with
Neurology, Neurosurgery and the Neuro ICU. She also serves as the
Chaplain on the hospital's Ethics Committee.
Walter Dixon is a Board Certified Chaplain as well as an
ordained pastor within the United Methodist Church. His principal
clinical foci in hospital employment were cardiology, oncology,
general medicine, staff support and palliative care.
SPIRITUAL SUPPORT FOR NON-COMMUNICATIVE PATIENTS is an important
guide for chaplains, clinicians and caregivers. This book offers
practical and spirit filled insights into techniques for being with
patients and families whose lives are on hold. Read it, teach it,
welcome it. -- Harold G. Koenig, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry &
Behavioral Sciences, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director,
Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University
Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Many chaplains and chaplain-interns will be exclaiming: "Where has
this book been before now!?" Golding and Dixon have given us a
much-needed, ethically sensitive, pithy, and eminently practical
guide to spiritual care with a particularly challenging patient
population, affirming that silence and the "ministry of presence"
is a profound gift to both patients and their families - and can be
a deepening spiritual experience for the caregiver as well. --
Pamela Cooper-White, Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of
Psychology and Religion, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and
author of Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and
Counseling
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