What Do I Say?: Talking with Patients about Spirituality [With DVD]

by Elizabeth Johnston-Taylor

Book Overview

Health care professionals, clergy, chaplains, social workers, and others who counsel people in medical crisis often find themselves faced with deeply painful questions: Why is this happening to me? Am I dying? Why should I live? I'm just a burden to others.Here is a workbook that suggests healing verbal responses to such expressions of spiritual pain. The accompanying DVD helps reinforce the lessons and exercises that integrate psychology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599471175
• ISBN13: 9781599471174
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Templeton Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

great

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Practical Tips

The DVD that accompanies this book provides great examples of thoughtful answers to difficult spiritual questions, and examples of not so great responses as well. Fabulous illustrations. The material throughout is very useful, practical, concise and realistic for health care professionals. The narration style is very sweet and tender, could be a distraction to the audience.

Spirituality

This is an invaluable tool for any nurse at the bedside. I am doing research on Spiritual Interventions in Acute Care settings at my hospital and found Taylor's suggestions and insights helpful in guiding my expectations and questions for the study. I showed it to one of the Chaplains here and they are excited to incorporate ideas expressed in the book/guide as part of improving nurses' response to spiritual distress in patients.