Publisher's Synopsis
Spirituality, Health, and Healing: An Integrative Approach offers health care professionals and individual caregivers the guidelines and tools necessary to provide compassionate, spiritual care to their clients and patients. By describing the profound role of spirituality on the body, mind, and spirit, this resource is an essential asset to practitioners eager to enhance their understanding of this important topic. The Second Edition has been completely updated and revised to include new content and current research. New information on integral spirituality, consciousness, the New Thought movement, and Western worldviews has been added along with updated information on healing rituals, sacred healing places on earth, and spiritual care at the end of life. There is also added information on altars, energy, symbols and environmental messages, an added section on designing with the natural world, and a new section on health care design and trends in health care design.
