All of Me

Patient-Centered Spirituality for Holistic Caregiving

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvHelen T. Boursier

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All of Me illuminates how chaplains, hospital caregivers, and clergy can provide spiritual care for those who are sick, in hospitals, preparing for surgery, or recovering. Based on interviews with forty hospital and ER patients about their experiences, lessons learned, and insights gained while receiving care, Boursier weaves these accounts together with interdisciplinary literature from medical and social sciences, ethics, philosophy, spirituality, theology, and religious studies. The result is a resource that offers both insight and practical tools for practitioners and students, showing how spiritually informed compassionate care can be cultivated through identifying, respecting, and supporting spirituality to foster holistic patient well-being.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-08
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538193419

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Klinisk psykologi inom Medicin
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Helen T. Boursier, PhD, is a public theologian, educator, author, artist, and ordained minister who has taught spirituality through a justice-informed lens to nursing and social work students for a decade, including at the College of St. Scholastica. Her recent books include Art as Witness: A Practical Theology of Arts-Based Research (2021); Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum (2022); and Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders (2024). All of Me is her twentieth book.

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Essence (of Spirituality)2 Misconceptions3 Cognitive Dissonance Nets Spiritual Disjuncture4 Systems, Protocols and Procedures5 Risk and Vulnerability6 Dignity7 Spiritual Distress8 Intersections: Spirituality as All of Me9 (Reducing) Death Anxiety10 (Attitude) Reorientation11 Sacred Space12 Caring Presence13 Advocacy for (Patient) Agency14 (Spiritual) Call to ActionNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

As we human beings have acquired more and more in-depth knowledge about the various systems of the body and their functioning, and as medicine has become increasingly specialized, we have lost sight of the way in which our person is an amalgam of physical, emotional, spiritual, and social realities that interact and interrelate constantly. All of Me argues for a holistic view of the human person so that medical care and intervention can work collaboratively with the whole person and not simply address the material/physical components of a patient’s existence while ignoring the other dimensions of a patient's personhood. Rev. Dr. Boursier does a masterful job of articulating the consequences of our failure to work deliberately toward this interdisciplinary and integrative approach to caregiving. Grounding her work in the actual experiences of patients, Boursier articulates a path forward that is inspiring and practical for anyone who finds themselves in a caregiving role either professionally or in a familial context.