Integrating Spirituality into Treatment: Resources for Practitioners

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Summary: Written for psychologists
Review: If you are seeking to integrate spirituality into patient care in a hospital, medical practice, or ambulatory surgery center -- you should seek other works.

Psychologists, psychotherapists, behavioral therapists and ministers or chaplains who have an ongoing relationship with patients (e.g. chronic illnesses) will find this book useful and important.

Chapters on: Spirituality and Health, Historical Context, Assessing Spirituality, Mindfulness and Meditation, Prayer, Spirituality and the 12-step Programs, Values Spirituality and Psychotherapy, Behavioral Approaches to Enhance Spirituality, Spiritual Surrender: A Paradoxical Path to Control, Acceptance and Forgiveness, Evoking Hope, Serenity and Diversity Training in Spiritual and Religious Issues.

The only critique is the absence of an instrument to assess spirituality (or even guidance for the reader on which existing assessments are the best in practice).