Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Spirituality: A Growing Focus for Professional Caregivers
• What Is Spirituality?
• Spirituality and Healthy Religion
• Core Human Spiritual Needs
• Case Studies
• Spiritual Needs in Regard to Psychological and Religious Needs
• Expanding the Language of Spiritual Needs
• Naming Spiritual Needs
• Spiritual Well-Being and Health
• Spiritual Distress and Religious or Spiritual Problems
• Conclusion
• Chapter 2. Spiritual Assessment
• Foundations
• Spiritual Assessment and the Psychological Helping Professional
• Spiritual Assessment and the Religious Helping Professional
• The Basic Process of Spiritual Assessment
• A Beginning Model of Spiritual Assessment
• Chapter 3. The Process of Spiritual Care
• Step One: Address the Focus of Care Needed
• Step Two: Assess Spiritual Needs
• Step Three: Determine the Goals of Spiritual Care
• Step Four: Relate Spiritual Care to the Helpee’s Religion/Beliefs
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4. Tools for Spiritual Assessment: Spiritual Care As a Clinical Science
• The Need for Spiritual Assessment Instruments
• Stumbling Blocks to Spiritual Assessment
• Clinical Instruments of Spiritual Assessment
• Developmental Models of Spiritual Assessment
• Semistructured Interview and Surveys
• Developing Your Own Survey Questions
• Guidelines for the Development of spiritual Assessment Surveys
• Chapter 5. Basic Aptitudes and Skills of Spiritual Care
• Ability to Develop a Caring and Healing Helping Relationship
• Ability to Bring Spiritual Awareness into the Helping Relationship
• Knowledge and Acceptance of Your Identity As a Spiritual Caregiver
• Chapter 6. Broader Skills of Spiritual Care
• Ability to respond to the Ethnic Heritage of Helpees’ Spirituality
• Ability to Work with Helpees’ Pain, Loss, and grief
• Ability to Utilize Helpees’ Beliefs
• Ability to Use Religious Resources
• Chapter 7. A Community Model of Spiritual Care
• Ability to Develop a Socially Responsible Focus in Spiritual Care
• A Community Model of Spiritual Care
• Spiritual Care Competencies of Professional Organizations
• Organizational Standards of Spiritual Care
• References
• Recommended Reading
• Index

About the Author

Harold G Koenig, Charles J Topper