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"Vesta” Performed Across Country
This Bryan Harnetiaux play offers a warm and often funny exploration of a family’s struggle with a variety of end-of-...
# 019 Taking A Spiritual History, 2nd ed Medical College of Wisconsin (EPERC)
Background:  Illness raises fundamental questions – For what may I hope? Why do I suffer? Does my suffering have...
# 031 Confronting Personal Mortality, 2nd ed Medical College of Wisconsin (EPERC)
Intro:  Most of us fear our own death; it is part of the human experience. Various authors suggest that the desire to...
# 032 Grief and Bereavement, 2nd ed Medical College of Wisconsin (EPERC)
Introduction:  Grief is a normal response to loss, any loss: a job, a limb, a life. Clinicians have an important role...
A Practical Approach to the Family That Expects a Miracle American College of CHEST Physicians
Abstract:  When a patient is extremely ill and/or dying, and the family expects a miraculous recovery, this situation...
Audio Podcast: Spiritual and Religious Care of the Hospice Palliative Care Client.
This is an audio podcast from Hospice Palliative Care Insights, a monthly palliative care podcast based in Canada.  In...
Dignity Therapy for people with advanced cancer BMC Palliative Care
This is an interesting article (PDF) about a study on the effectiveness of dignity therapy for people with advanced cancer...
Finding Religion at the End of Life: Patients of Faith Seek Lifesaving Care
This March 2009 article from ABC News Health highlights the significant role that religion plays in deciding end-of-...
Improving training in spiritual care: a qualitative study exploring patient perceptions of professional educational requirements. Palliative Medicine
Abstract:  Healthcare professionals express difficulties in delivering spiritual care, despite it being a core...
Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
This guide introduces Jewish beliefs and practices around illness, death and loss and provides practical suggestions for...
On The Southern Front: A Written Piece by Julia Alvarez Health Affairs
This is a wondeful article written by Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of...
Positive and Negative Religious Coping and Well-Being in Women with Breast Cancer Journal of Palliative Medicine
  Abstract:  Although religions is important to many people with cancer, few studies have explored the...
Reducing the potential for suffering in older adults with advanced cancer. Palliative and Supportive Care
Abstract:  To deliver quality care at the end of life, understanding the impact of various changes and life transitions...
Spirituality and the care of patients at the end-of-life: an essential component of care. journal: Omega (Westport)
This abstract is to an article published in Omega, an international journal on the study of death and dying.  It...
The Chaplain's Role in Pediatric Palliative Care: Mapping Model Programs Website
This research project is being conducted by The Hastings Center in collaboration with the department of Religion, Health and...
The spiritual dimension of cancer care. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology
Abstract:  Spirituality is more about constant questioning than about providing fixed or final answers. Cancer patients...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Book
Often in times of serious illness and disease one turns to a deeper level of spirituality-- something greater than the...