Monthly Archive for: "October, 2017"

OBJECTIVES: For some people, diagnosis with a serious illness or other adverse life events can precipitate a period of religious struggle. While evidence of the harmful effects [...]
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Background: The large body of empirical research suggesting that patients’ spiritual and existential experiences influence the disease process has raised the need for health care professionals to [...]
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BACKGROUND: This study sought to inductively derive core themes of religion and/or spirituality (R/S) active in patients’ experiences of advanced cancer to inform the development of [...]
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OBJECTIVE: Health care professionals and policy makers acknowledge that spiritual needs are important for many patients with life-limiting illnesses. We asked such patients to describe [...]
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Spiritual AIM (Spiritual Assessment & Intervention Model) is a “brief, chaplain-delivered spiritual care intervention” [MS p. 8] that “was developed through 25 years of [...]
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