Spiritual Care in Palliative Care

Foreword.- Preface.- Part 1: Introduction.- 1. What is spirituality.- 2. The spiritual experience of dying.- 3. Spiritual needs in palliative care patients.- 4. Dreams and visions.- 5. Deathbed visions and the moment of death.- Part 2: Diversity.- 6. The role of religious beliefs.- 7. Maori spiritual care during COVID-19 lockdowns.- 8. Muslim patients.- 9. Spiritual Care for Buddhist Patients in Taiwan.- 10. Spititual aspects of end of life care for Christian patients.- 11. Spiritual care in Palliative Care: Hinduism perspective.- 12. Judaism.- 13. Clinical Practice of Spiritual Care by Nurses for Non-Religious Patients: A Japanese Perspective.- Part 3: Impact.- 14. Impact of Spiritual Care on Patient Outcomes at the End of Life .- 15. Spirituality and pain control.- 16. Spirituality and mental health.- Part 4: Practice.- 17. Assessment of spirituality.- 18. Spiritual care therapeuticsat the end of life.- 19. Barriers to spiritual care.- 20. Reaching spiritual realms through music in serious illness care.- 21. The place of Ritual in Spiritual Care.- 22. The role of spiritual care in palliative care during a pandemic.- 23. Public Health approaches to spiritual care.- Part 5: Suffering.- 24. Existential distress at the end of life.- 25. Demoralisation.- 26. Desire for hastened death.- 27. The existential dimension of loss and grief.- 28. Prevention and treatment of suffering through mindfulness.- Part 6: Training .- 29. Interprofessional spiritual care education and training for palliative care.- 30. The role of the doctor.- 31. The role of the nurse.- 32. The role of the chaplain.- 33. The Role of Social Worker.- 34. Cultural safety in palliative care.- 35. Compassion.- 36. Self-care for staff.- Part 7: Special Groups.- 37. Spiritual care in neonatal palliative care.- 38. Caring Spiritually for Children in Palliative Care - both when they are relatives of dying family members or terminally ill themselves.- 39. Spirituality for young adults.- 40. Family carers.- 41. Spiritual care of the elderly.- 42. People living with dementia.- 43. The bereaved.- Part 8: Policy.- 44. Ethics of spiritual care.- 45. Introduction of national guidelines for multi-professional spiritual care in PC.- 46. Organizational and Leadership Factors for Spiritual Care Implementation.