Table of Contents
Preface 7
Part 1 Constructing Spiritual Care 9
Chapter 1 The Narrative of Spiritual Care: Locating Models of Spiritual Care within Contemporary Healthcare Education and Practice Jonathan H. Pye 10
Chapter 2 Discourses of Spiritual Healthcare Hamish Ferguson-Stuart 23
Chapter 3 Making Use of Models of Healthcare Chaplaincy Stephen Flatt 37
Chapter 4 Biblical Texts, Chaplaincy and Mental Health Service Users Anne McCormick 50
Appendix 64
References 65
Part 2 Negotiating Spiritual Care in Public 69
Chapter 5 The Value of Spiritual Care: Negotiating Spaces and Practices for Spiritual Care in the Public Domain Andrew Todd 70
Chapter 6 Legal and Policy Frameworks for Spiritual Care Layla Welford 87
Chapter 7 From Atheists to Zoroastrians… What are the Implications for Professional Healthcare Chaplaincy of the Requirement to Provide Spiritual Care to People of All Faiths and None? Mirabai Galashan 102
Chapter 8 Developing a Model of Chaplaincy through the Translation of Nursing Theory Debbie Hodge 121
References 138
Part 3 Researching Spiritual Care 145
Chapter 9 Making Spiritual Care Visible: The Developing Agenda and Methodologies for Research in Spiritual Care Steve Nolan 146
Chapter 10 Researching Spiritual Care in a Mental Health Context Julian Raffay 158
Chapter 11 How Secular is the NHS? The Significance of Volunteers and Their Beliefs Karen MacKinnon 171
Chapter 12 Observing, Recording and Analysing Spiritual Care in an Acute Setting Rodney Baxendale 185
References 204
Part 4 Critical Issues in Spiritual Care 209
Chapter 13 The Practice of Spiritual Care in the Context of Suffering: Questions for the Self as a 'Spiritual Being' Peter Sedgwick 210
Chapter 14 Assisted Suicide: A Dignified End to Severe and Enduring Mental Illness? Charles Thody 224
Chapter 15 Insights into Spiritual Need and Care Arising Out of the Experience of Those Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment: (MCI) Richard Wharton 236
Chapter 36 'A Hidden Wholeness': Spiritual Care in a Children's Hospice Mark Clayton 249
References 261
Contributors 265
Subject Index 269
Author Index 275