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A focus on the legal aspects of medicine, ethical issues, and community-based work distinguishes this education manual for nurses from previous volumes in the series. Discussion questions and self-assessments are included in each chapter whose subjects include care for women with special needs, disabled clients, the elderly, and patients with HIV/AIDS or a malignant disease.
Presence is essential in nursing. It means to connect with, and attune to, another person for the purpose of healing and enrichment. This book explores the importance of presence in nursing, gathering together various personal accounts of its use in both research and practice. It will allow the reader to reflect on presence, connecting, attuning, finding meaning and joy, and delivering care in a relational way. This book will also be of particular interest to nurse educators and trainers interested in guiding others to acquire presence, in addition to healthcare managers, who will benefit from the chapter on promoting quality in healthcare through relational leadership. The text also has valuable new information to offer to the researcher interested in presence and related concepts such as relational care and relational leadership in healthcare.
A view of human nature generally forms part of the assumptions that undergird psychological theories and psychotherapeutic approaches. In this book, Christian anthropology is articulated as a foundation for the theories, approaches and techniques applied in practice by its contributors. Various essays from European-based practitioners in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and counselling are included here. These authors draw scientific knowledge from the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, focusing on intra-psychic aspects of human functioning, such as emotions, drives and cognitions, as well as interpersonal and eco-systemic functioning. In addition to this, the authors consider spirituality as an intrinsic part of humanity through which persons seek meaning and transcendence and that influences physical and mental health. Spiritual insight is gained from the field of theology with specific reference to the Christian faith tradition. As a wide range of topics, contexts and cultural and ecumenical backgrounds are covered in this book many practitioners in mental health care and counselling should benefit from the knowledge, ideas and practical experience shared here.
Practical Theology and Mission Studies: Understand, contemplate and do! South African Perspectives is an academic book that consists of theoretical contributions from lecturers and research associates of the Department of Practical Theology and Mission Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria (UP). Practical theology is multifaceted. It is present in a wide variety of locations and environments. It is also unlike Missiology to be idle or remain ‘pie in the’ sky. Even Missiology, or as at the University of Pretoria, Mission Studies, remains an applied ‘practical’ theological discipline. These theological disciplines emphasise the significance of the cont...
This volume provides an account of the surprising ‘in-breaking’ of spiritual life that persists in our culture, despite the best efforts of atheist spokespersons and secular theorists. Spirituality in its varying forms is irrepressible, resisting our attempts to exclude it by continuing to seep through the cracks and leak through the gaps. When it is allowed to manifest itself through the Christian faith-tradition, it has the power to surprise, transform and renew everything it touches. This volume contains a series of case studies, each of which describes the inner-functionings and out-workings of the spiritual life as a transformative point of contact between God, world, society and self. Each chapter contains high-level inquiry, drawing on best-practice scholarship that is deeply aware of the needs and opportunities that confront 21st-century society.
En respuesta al interés creciente del equipo de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, este libro reúne escritos que vinculan la antropología cristiana con las ciencias de la salud mental para un reenfoque en clave humanista del estudio de la psique humana. Estas páginas quieren promover un debate académico vivo entre profesionales cristianos de múltiples confesiones y, al mismo tiempo, crear un espacio de encuentro entre la reflexión antropológica y las aportaciones de las disciplinas de salud mental. Además, en los ensayos aquí presentados, hay una apuesta por superar el efecto reduccionista de los modelos imperantes en las ciencias de la salud mental que, con frecuencia, dejan fuera cualquier alusión a lo trascendente. En consecuencia, los profesionales no pocas veces carecen de formación adecuada para comprender lo que verdaderamente acontece en el interior de la persona. Este libro invita a abrirse a un dinamismo confrontador con Cristo como una opción a considerar frente al actual malestar del ser humano.
During the last ten years of his life, in Vienna and London, Sigmund Freud noted down all the significant events in his life - family happenings, visits from friends, the drama of his flight from Nazi oppression, his long battle against cancer and the feuds and intrigues of the early psychoanalytic movement. This volume contains a facsimile of his notes, with translations and full annotations of the 100 entries.
Peter Rotz (Ratz) was born ca. 1744 and died ca. 1812. He immigrated to the United States in 1751 coming from Germany, and he settled in Pennsylvania. He married Maria Elizabeth Geckler (Keckler) in 1764 in the Lutheran church in Hanover, Pennsylvania. They were parents of 5 children.