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Spiritual Care at the End of Life : the Chaplain as a 'Hopeful Presence'.
Chaplains in healthcare settings offer patients spiritual care that involves companionship, counselling and maintaining hope. This is particularly important at the point where a patient has run out of treatment possibilities. This book reflects creatively on the work that chaplains do with people wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Chaplains in healthcare settings offer patients spiritual care that involves companionship, counselling and maintaining hope. This is particularly important at the point where a patient has run out of treatment possibilities. This book reflects creatively on the work that chaplains do with people who are dying and the unique quality of the relationship that palliative care professionals construct with patients at the end of life. Based on qualitative research with practising palliative care chaplains, Spiritual Care at the End of Life explores the nature of hope in its different forms at diffe. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857005137 0857005138 128336395X 9781283363952 |