There is an undeniable relationship between spirituality and health, and taking a spiritual history is a simple way to increase the focus on spiritual care. This is a pre/posttest intervention study. Questionnaires were administered before implementation of a spiritual assessment (pretest, n = 106), and afterward (posttest, n = 103). Despite a difficult implementation process, the number of con...

BACKGROUND Studies have found higher levels of insecure attachment in individuals with schizophrenia. Attachment theory provides a framework necessary for conceptualizing the development of interpersonal functioning. Some aspects of the attachment of the believer to his/her spiritual figure are similar to those between the child and his/her parents. The correspondence hypothesis suggests that e...

For many patients confronted with chronic diseases, spirituality/religiosity is an important resource for coping. Patients often report unmet spiritual and existential needs, and spiritual support is also associated with better quality of life. Caring for spiritual, existential and psychosocial needs is not only relevant to patients at the end of their life but also to those suffering from long...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine to what degree the spiritual needs of patients near the end of life are met. DESIGN Descriptive. SETTING One inpatient and five outpatient hospices. SAMPLE 62 female and 38 male hospice patients with a mean age of 67 years; 74% were dying from cancer. METHODS Each subject completed the Spiritual Needs Inventory and rated life satisfaction via the Cantril ...

CONTEXT Treating both the body and the mind of an injured or ill patient is accepted as necessary for full healing to occur. However, treating the spiritual needs of the patient has less consensus. OBJECTIVE To determine the perceptions and practices of certified athletic trainers (ATs) working in the college/university setting pertaining to spiritual care of the injured athlete. DESIGN Cro...

doi: 10.1188/16.ONF.131-132 The end of each year and the beginning of the next usually involves the media printing lists of what was talked about in the past year and what is going to be “hot” in the coming 12 months. The world of oncology is no different. MedPageToday conducted a nonscientific survey of readers (Sergel, 2015), asking oncologists what game changers they saw in 2015. Seventy-fou...

The article is devoted to the philosophical and theological thought of Karol Wojtyła, i.e., John Paul II, who in his considerations gave a lot attention European issues, including spiritual heritage Europe, Christianity its two varieties, Latin Byzantine, relationship between unity pluralism national cultures. We discover proper sense Wojtyła’s by referring inspiration with theology spiritualit...

Digital presence refers to technologies that provide communities a shared experience and sense of togetherness, despite geographical distance. Emerging for digital the church with both theological questions (e.g. related validity sacraments when administered online) practical opportunities. Think pros cons online communion in some churches: is real presence? The realm as thread universe leads r...

The existence of evil in a world created by God raises very difficult questions to answer. Under the inspiration Thomistic philosophy, this article we face problem first all “from below”, trying understand meaning physical evils living nature, especially animals (pain, aggressive interactions). Secondly, thinking enormous amount moral human world, consider biblical faith original sin as illumin...

While Rosemary Radford Ruether is widely, and rightly, acknowledged as a prophetic Catholic scholar–activist, her interest in experience of mysticism rarely emphasized. However, had an impactful mystical young woman, the themes this echo throughout body work. This paper paints portrait both profoundly scholar–activist spiritually attuned seeker very divinity that she encountered twenties. In pr...