
Spirit, Science, and Health
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From meditation to reciting mantras or praying, spirituality is more and more often being recognized for its beneficial effects on health. In this volume, a team of experts from across disciplines including psychology, medicine, nursing, public health, and pastoral care offer reader-friendly chapters showing the state of the art in understanding this connection. Chapters include attention to special populations such as youth, HIV/AIDS patients, cancer patients, and those in hospice care. Contributors, all members of the Spirituality and Health Institute at Santa Clara University, aim to use the scientific understanding of the spirituality/health connection to promote better health for the general public. One focus of this volume is to show easy ways to incorporate spiritual practices in an environment that is often multicultural, multi-religious, stressful, hurried, and secular.
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Carl E. Thoresen is Professor Emeritus of Education and Psychology, and, by courtesy, Psychiatry/Behavioral Science at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Spirituality & Health Institute at Santa Clara University. Thoresen has worked in the field of Counseling and Health Psychology for more than 30 years. A Founding Fellow for the Society of Behavioral Medicine, he served on an Expert Panel for the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences, focused on spirituality and health. His many awards include the John Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, election to Fellow status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword by Albert Bandura
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Overview, Assessment, and Modeling
- 1 Spirituality, Religion, and Health: What's the Deal?
- 2 Prayer and Health
- 3 A Few Good Measures: Assessing Religion and Spirituality in Relation to Health
- 4 How Does One Learn to Be Spiritual? The Neglected Role of Spiritual Modeling in Health
- Part 2: Meditation
- 5 Meditation: Exploring the Farther Reaches
- 6 The Eight-Point Program of Passage Meditation: Health Effects of a Comprehensive Program
- 7 Mantram or Holy Name Repetition: Health Benefits from a Portable Spiritual Practice
- Part 3: Spirit and Action
- 8 Compassion and Health
- 9 The Calling Protocol: Promoting Greater Health, Joy, and Purpose in Life
- Part 4: Special Populations
- 10 Religion/Spirituality and Health in Adolescents
- 11 Spirituality and Cancer
- 12 Spirituality and HIV/AIDS
- 13 Spirituality at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Care
- Part 5: Ethical Issues
- 14 Spirituality, Religion, and Health: Ethical Issues to Consider
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index
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