Steve Nolan

Spiritual Care at the End of Life: The Chaplain as a 'Hopeful Presence'

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the services that chaplains provide to dying patients and the unique relationship that palliative care staff construct with people at the end of life. It explores the nature of hope when faced with the inevitable and develops a theory of spiritual care rooted in relationship that has implications for all healthcare professionals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781849051996
• ISBN-10: 1849051992
• Artikelnr.: 33768348

Autorenporträt

Steve Nolan, Ph.D., is a palliative care chaplain at Princess Alice Hospice, Surrey, UK, where he works daily with people who are dying, supporting them and their families. He regularly teaches spiritual care to students visiting the hospice and is a tutor on the MTh in Chaplaincy Studies at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, part of Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Dr Rowan Williams. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Hope
Beyond Recovery. 2. Evocative Presence. 3. Accompanying Presence. 4.
Comforting Presence. 5. Hopeful Presence. 6. Rethinking Spiritual Care as
Presence. Towards a Theory of 'Chaplain as Hopeful Presence'. 8. By Way of
an Ending: A Personal View. Appendix: The Research Project. References.
Index.