All of Me
Patient-Centered Spirituality for Holistic Caregiving
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2025
248 pages
978-1-5381-9343-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-9343-3 (9781538193433)
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Book
approx. 01/2026
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€25.50
Not yet published
Person
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.
Content
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Essence (of Spirituality)
2 Misconceptions
3 Cognitive Dissonance Nets Spiritual Disjuncture
4 Systems, Protocols and Procedures
5 Risk and Vulnerability
6 Dignity
7 Spiritual Distress
8 Intersections: Spirituality as All of Me
9 (Reducing) Death Anxiety
10 (Attitude) Reorientation
11 Sacred Space
12 Caring Presence
13 Advocacy for (Patient) Agency
14 (Spiritual) Call to Action
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Essence (of Spirituality)
2 Misconceptions
3 Cognitive Dissonance Nets Spiritual Disjuncture
4 Systems, Protocols and Procedures
5 Risk and Vulnerability
6 Dignity
7 Spiritual Distress
8 Intersections: Spirituality as All of Me
9 (Reducing) Death Anxiety
10 (Attitude) Reorientation
11 Sacred Space
12 Caring Presence
13 Advocacy for (Patient) Agency
14 (Spiritual) Call to Action
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
