Hope and Grace: Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying - Softcover

Renz, Monika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785920308 ISBN 13: 9781785920301

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying. Moved beyond their everyday consciousness, individuals often have spiritual experiences of grace and encounters with the transcendent or the divine. The author shows how care providers can support patients in their suffering and how they can recognize patients' spiritual experiences. Explaining different types of experiences of transcendence such as seeing angels or feelings of otherness and presence, this book will be of valuable use to professionals working in palliative and spiritual care, such as spiritual caregivers, therapists, nurses, and physicians. The book entails a new approach to spiritual care which opens a space of hope wherein grace may happen even amid pain, suffering, illness and dying.

About this title

Book Description

Explores how care providers to critically and terminally ill persons can understand and engage with extreme distress as a process where spiritual experiences of transcendence happen

From the Author

Monika Renz holds doctorates in psychopathology and theology from the universities of Zurich, Fribourg, and Innsbruck. She is head of the psycho-oncology department at Kantonsspital St. Gallen, where she has been a practicing music therapist, psychotherapist and spiritual counsellor since 1998. She is the author of a number of books drawing on her research into dying, spirituality and spiritual care. Find out more at www.monikarenz.ch.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1785920308
• ISBN 13: 9781785920301
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192