Download or read book When Suffering Persists written by Frederick W. Schmidt and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "When Suffering Persists", the author offers an accessible and pastoral exploration of theological understandings of suffering that ministers to both mind and spirit. He re-examines the generic comfort offered by many answers and the social and theological explanations that people offer one another, and provides a theology that takes seriously the devastating character of suffering.
Download or read book The Dave Test written by Frederick W. Schmidt and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Dave Test? Basic, important, raw questions you can ask yourself when someone you love is suffering, in crisis, unhinged, maybe dying. Before you even think about opening your mouth and blowing chunks of platitudes, or running, or “minimizing the painful,” do the real work of living, of being a friend: take the Dave Test. Roughly speaking the modern American mindset revolves around this life philosophy: · Minimize the painful or unwelcome. · Maximize the pleasant and satisfying. · If and when the painful or the unwelcome happens, run. · Dispense with it as quickly as possible and get back to feeling good. But what if we learn to move past our comfort zones, transcend our own lives and connect with those who suffer? When we truly connect with others, it is all but impossible to insulate ourselves from life’s harsher realities. This book is about the dangerous business of exposing our own fragile lives to the mortality of ourselves and others. The Dave Test takes the demand for honesty, plain talk, and faith seriously.
Download or read book Los Sufrimientos de Ruthie written by Carlos José Sánchez and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El sufrimiento de Ruthie es una historia verídica vivida por la persona que lleva su nombre de la cual el autor puede testificar la veracidad de los hechos por ser parte de esta historia. En este libro verás las muchas caras del sufrimiento expresadas en lloros, decepciones, disoluciones, traiciones, amargos momentos, fracasos y hasta su estremecedor encuentro con la muerte. La historia es real que te hará reflexionar y pensar que cuando tú estás pasando por un momento difícil siempre hay alguien quién la está pasando peor. Esta historia es una de las tantas que suceden en el mundo. La tuya pudiera ser la próxima en escribirse. En ella veras las diferentes caras del sufrir. Historias como estas nunca terminan. Día a día se repiten en multitudes de seres humanos quienes diariamente padecen aflicciones y calamidades. La historia de Ruthie no es la única; todos tenemos también una historia que contar. Este libro te pondrá los "pelos de punta" a medida que leas y vayas descubriendo lo que la vida le ha dado a esta humilde mujer. Muchos de nosotros de una manera u otra hemos sido víctimas del sufrir y de los defectos que este deja; en el caso de Ruthie, los efectos son más que dolorosos. Sus sufrimientos te tocaran el alma. La palabra sufrir se quedará corta cuando veas el despliegue de tormentas y ataques que la vida misma ha hecho contra ella. Lee este libro detalladamente y veras que no estoy exagerando. Sé parte de esta historia e identifícate con el personaje para que tú también seas testigo de los atropellos que se atreve hacer el sufrir y de los rastros que éste deja. Entérate si el sufrimiento de Ruthie se convierte al fin y al cabo en felicidad; si ella le gana la batalla a la vida; si ella le da un adiós definitivo al sufrimiento, o una acogedora bienvenida a la felicidad. Su fe y perseverancia en Dios le da esperanza; pero aun la pregunta original queda en el aire: ¿Terminarán algún día los Sufrimientos de Ruthie? Eso sólo la sabe Dios.
Download or read book Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four Phase Treatment Approach written by Patricia A. Fennell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book to help maximize the quality of life for chronically ill patients Written by a leading authority on chronic illness treatment and management, Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach provides evidence-based practice guidelines for clinicians to help their clients with debilitating health problems embrace a new "normal," understand the cyclical nature of their illness, and function at the highest level possible. Patricia Fennell's groundbreaking model for understanding chronic illness identifies and describes four broad phases experienced by the chronically ill: crisis, stabilization, resolution, and integration. Using a broad array of case histories, Fennell vividly illustrates what clients need at each phase and how to assess and respond to them compassionately. Fennell also suggests how clinicians may best use their own changing experiences in their work to help clients transition through the four phases. The goal of the "Four-Phase Model" is to maximize a client's quality of life without offering false hope for a cure, making it an effective treatment strategy for diverse client populations, including people with physiological diseases; patients whose lives are being prolonged by modern medicine; and people who suffer from addiction, post-traumatic stress syndrome, intractable pain, and post-rape and abuse conditions. Complete with detailed treatment protocols for documenting a client's symptoms and quality of life at each phase, Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach is a highly practical book for everyone working with chronically ill clients.
Download or read book Living Through Pain written by Kristin M. Swenson and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Living Through Pain, Kristin Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain. This book also surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage pain. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person - body, mind, spirit, and community - Swenson consults an ancient resource for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Living Through Pain chronicles how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary experience of pain. Pain is a universal experience, and this book invites readers to consider more fully what is involved in the process of healing."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room written by Keira P. Mason, MD and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book functions as an essential guide to the safe and effective sedation of pediatric patients outside the operating room. It is a multidisciplinary reference that features an international authorship and is also of use for a broad range of specialists who deliver pediatric sedation in the non-OR setting. Organized into four parts, Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room 3rd edition, begins with the foundational history of the pediatric sedation field. Subsequent chapters explore the basics of procedural sedation, pre-sedation assessments, and sedation policies across various specialties and continents. Part two then examines a multitude of sedation models divided by geographical location and subspecialty. Following this, Part three delves into standards of safety in sedation, including medicolegal risk factors, neurocognitive side effects, and aspiration risks. The book closes with chapters presenting discussions on the future of sedation, insofar as predictions for the role of simulation, medical malpractice, and the intersection of sedation and marijuana. An updated invaluable successor edition, Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room 3rd edition is accessible to a diverse group of sedation providers from all specialties. This textbook is an invaluable and necessary addition to all sedation providers worldwide.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life written by Stuart J. Youngner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. In this period, technology has radically changed medical practices and the way we die as structures of power have been reshaped by the rights claims of African Americans, women, gays, students, and, most relevant here, patients. Respecting patients' values has been recognized as the essential moral component of clinical decision-making. Technology's promise has been seen to have a dark side: it prolongs the dying process. For the first time in history, human beings have the ability control the timing of death. With this ability comes a responsibility that is awesome and inescapable. How we understand and manage this responsibility is the theme of this volume. The book comprises six sections. Section I examines how the law has helped shape clinical practice, emphasizing the roles of rights and patient autonomy. Section II focuses on specific clinical issues, including death and dying in children, continuous sedation as a way to relieve suffering at the end of life, and the problem of prognostication in patients who are thought to be dying. Section III considers psychosocial and cultural issues. Section IV discusses death and dying among various vulnerable populations such as the elderly and persons with disabilities. Section V deals with physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia (lethal injection). Finally, Section VI looks at hospice and palliative care as a way to address the psychosocial and ethical problems of death and dying.
Download or read book God Suffering and Disability written by Mary Schaefer Fast and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God, Suffering, and Disability: A Trinitarian Theodicy of the Cross utilizes both Christological and pneumatological perspectives of Luther’s theology of the cross to address the complexities of suffering and disability. Through the lens of the cross, the God who suffers enables humans to “call a thing what it is” by recognizing the suffering that often accompanies disability. Rather than asking “why” the Triune God allows people to suffer, this theodicy of disability focuses on “where” the Father, Son, and Spirit are in that very human experience. As a new theodic construct, “a Trinitarian theodicy of the cross” responds to both the theological concerns of the church and the theoretical apprehensions of society. It encourages Christians to live as theologians of the cross, empowers the faith community by informing both its theology and praxis, and provides a theoretical response to secular society that will enrich the field of disability studies.
Download or read book The Virtues of Suffering written by Glendon Watson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone suffers, and many people question the goodness of a God who allows such pain and sorrow in His creation. But God intends for our suffering to draw us closer to Him to receive His redemption, as it reveals the weaknesses of our own flesh and the condition of our heart, causing us to cry out to our loving and eternal God. All suffering is a result of the fall in the Garden of Eden, but Jesus gave His life so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. He alone can deliver us from suffering and save our souls from hell. In The Virtues of Suffering..., the trials and pains of this world are acknowledged and embraced for the blessings they bring to the lives of believers. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 4:17: “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” Jesus also suffered willingly, knowing the good fruit it would produce: “... who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame ...” (Hebrews 12:2). For both believers and skeptics who are struggling with suffering and loss, and questioning the benevolence of God, The Virtues of Suffering will shine a light of hope and promise as readers lean into the Word of God and His great love for all people.
Download or read book Happiness and the Christian Moral Life written by Paul J. Wadell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happiness and the Christian Moral Life introduces students to Christian Ethics looking at ethics as a path to the "good life" and happiness, rather than a strict set of rules. Revisions and updates include lists of suggested readings and resources, new discussions of how technology shapes relationships, a more fully developed account of Augustine and happiness, and more.
Download or read book Finding God in the Hard Times written by Matt Redman and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerful and life-altering encouragement for us all."--Louie Giglio In this inspiring book, Matt and Beth Redman draw on their experiences as well as those of others, exploring how to offer praise even in the face of hardship and pain. Focusing on the psalms, many of which were written out of struggle, they show how difficult or tragic circumstances--and our choices--can propel us toward God or away from him, build up our faith or break it. Learn how to ride out the storms of life with a cry of "blessed be your name" on your lips.
Download or read book Subjectivity and Religious Truth in the Philosophy of S ren Kierkegaard written by Merigala Gabriel and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merigala Gabriel's main objective is to thoroughly examine subjective truth, which is the core concept in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Here Gabriel contrast subjective truth with objective truth in order to highlight the significance of subjective truth in its religious context and to bring out the inadequacy of objective truth. The principle of absolute paradox connected with the subjective truth is also discussed. The study also aims to present a detailed analysis of the aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages that represent existential dialectic, to examine their interrelationship and to show how the religious mode of existence is the key to genuineness in real existence. Care is taken to examine the disjunction between reason and faith: to bring out the importance of "faith" in Christianity and to show the limitations of science as far as Christianity is concerned. Gabriel also addresses the relation between God and Man. Finally, the importance of Kierkegaard's thought and his contribution to the development of "subjectivity and religious truth" are outlined.
Download or read book Theological Theodicy written by Daniel Castelo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of God's relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical task in a way that can be accessible to nonspecialists. Overall, the book hopes to cast the "god" of theodicy as the triune God of Christian confession, a move that shapes and alters distinctly all that follows in what has traditionally been considered a philosophical matter.
Download or read book Theoretical Nursing written by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2007 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text guides you through the evolution of nursing's theoretical foundations and examines the ways in which these principles influence the practice of the discipline."--Jacket.
Download or read book Life Love and Sex written by Joseph H. Casey S.J. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are being forced today to take a stand on same-sex marriage, assisted suicide and capital punishment. As they ponder how to vote on these issues, a critical question emerges: Is this morally right? At the same time people have become confused about the morality of sex in general. What should they teach their teenagers and how talk with their older sons and daughters about living together. Undergirding current sexual practice is the unquestioned acceptance of contraception. Should contraception be explicitly examined? Besides clarifying each issue I let the reader know what the Church teaches (using the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Pope John Paul IIs encyclicals). And I show how reasonable the Church's position is (utilizing the writings of Germain Grisez, a distinguished lay moral theologian and philosopher.) To ensure readers understand Grisez's solutions to these diverse issues I explain in simple terms his ethical approach. Non-Catholics will find especially significant the human reasoning behind such teachings. They and Catholics can dialogue on this level. The Pope's early writings on conjugal love may prove impressive. People just do not discuss abortion today, for positions seem hardened and unbreachable. By posing a series of fundamental questions, logically interrelated, I hope to breach the unbreachable. At least it will be clear precisely where participants part company from one another. The most sensitive issue I find to be homosexuality. I have rewritten the treatment a number of times in an effort to be clear, fair, and sensitive.
Download or read book Partners in Palliative Care written by Mary Beth Morrissey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a membership of over 50 community-based organizations and volunteers dedicated to improving care of the seriously ill through education, research and advocacy. The Collaborative bridges policy, research and practice in its initiatives and vision for the future. Partners in Palliative Care examines specific areas of concern that the Collaborative has addressed in its education programs and advocacy, as well as the collaborative processes that have been so successful in building community assets. Areas of concentration have been diverse and include advance care planning, relational communication paradigms, community capacity building, the role of culture and spirituality in palliative care, the meaning of pain and suffering for seriously ill individuals, and the ethics of health care costs in palliative and end-of-life systems of care. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care.
Download or read book Unraveling Life s Riddle written by Tami Yaguri and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happiness is fleeting, but meaning endures—even through terrible unhappiness. This book helps to unravel the riddle of how to bring meaning to one’s life. It also outlines a disciplined technique for uncovering meaning in life. This meaning becomes a north star for navigation and appears in the overlap between an identity and a worldview.
