"Spiritual, Health, and Healing: An Integrative Approach, Second Edition offers healthcare professionals, instructors, and spiritual care providers a comprehensive guide to the most current research on the connection between spiritual practice and health. This updated Second Edition includes new sections on integral spirituality and the New Thought Movement; healing rituals and healing environments; plus new information on spirituality and aging, caring for the elderly, and spiritual hospice."--Jacket.

Characteristics of spirituality -- Spirituality, the healthcare professional, and the spiritual care provider -- Spiritual rituals -- Spirituality, religion, and health -- Spirituality, culture, and health -- Spiritual assessment and spiritual care -- Therapeutic interventions for healing -- Sacred spaces, healing places -- Spiritual care of the dying -- Spirituality and the grieving process -- Spirituality, religion, and children -- Spiritual dimensions of aging.