Additional Profession Specific Resources – Religion and Spirituality in Healthcare Decision Making

Medicine
- Partnerships between the faith-based and medical sectors: Implications for preventive medicine and public health
  - Information on intersectionality of medicine and religion
- Understanding the Role of Religion in Medical Decision Making
  - How religious beliefs influence medical decision making.
    - Article talks specifically about Orthodox Jews determinism vs. advocating for one’s health.
    - Reasons why spiritual care is not taught as widely in healthcare.
- Ethical issues of incorporating spiritual care into clinical practice
  - Look into ethical issues of incorporating spirituality and religion into clinical practice. There are ethical concerns and conflicting views for many health providers on if and how to offer spiritual care in the clinical setting.
- Handbook of Religion and Health
  - Handbook on religion and health. Has large section on religion on physical health.
- Views on End-of-Life Medical Treatments
  - Statistics on end of life care and American preferences on this topic.
Pharmacy
- Perspectives about Spiritual Care in Pharmacy Practice: A Community-based Survey
  - Perspectives on spiritual care provided by pharmacists. Asks for opinions of patients on what they would prefer their pharmacists do.
Nursing
- Why Is Spiritual Care Infrequent at the End of Life? Spiritual Care Perceptions Among Patients, Nurses, and Physicians and the Role of Training
  - Investigates and provides solutions to why there might be less R/S care in EOL.
Physical Therapy
- Teaching Spirituality in the Physical Therapy Classroom and Clinic
  - Recommends tools that PTs can use to help patients and their R/S needs. Article advocates for the inclusion of spiritual mentions in PT curriculum while identifying some education content and strategies for teaching.
Counseling Psychology
- Exploring the Contours of Religion and Spirituality in Creating Community: A Focus on Persons with Psychosis
  - An analysis of how religious and spiritual communities are formed for patients with psychosis.
- Spirituality and mental health: Implications for ethics, medicine, and public health
  - This paper examines the reasons for progress made to date as a basis for hope, and the implications for the place of spirituality in psychiatric ethics, medicine, and public health.
- Experiences of inpatient staff meeting the religious and cultural needs of BAME informal patients and patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
  - Inpatient staff experiences dealing with R and cultural needs of BAME mental health patients.
- Handbook on Religion and Health
  - Handbook on religion and health and has large section on religion and mental health