Harold G Koenig: 36 books
Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
AIDS and the African-American Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Examining the black church’s response to AIDS, Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door: AIDS and the African-American Church analyzes sexual ethics and homophobia in the black church to provide pastors, social workers, and health professionals with intervention strategies for parishioners or members...
Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family
A Pastoral Care Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family: A Pastoral Care Approach enables grief counselors, pastors, hospice specialists, hospital chaplains, mental health practitioners, educators, and seminary students to bring an understanding of faith development, family systems, and gender and ethnic differences into...
The Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Pastoral Care for the Road to Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Gain scientific and theological insight into OCD!
The Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Pastoral Care for the Road to Change delivers a provocative and stimulating discussion that is meant to inspire new areas of inquiry on this subject. As an OCD sufferer, pastoral counselor, mental health student,...
Faith, Spirituality, and Medicine
Toward the Making of the Healing Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Understand and make use of the connections between health and religion to improve your practice!
Research points to a clear link between people's religious beliefs and practices and their health. These developments have ushered in a new era in health care, in which meaning and purpose stand...
Chronic Pain
Biomedical and Spiritual Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Help your clients achieve victory over chronic pain and lead more fulfilling lives!
This insightful and informative book will help you deliver better pain management services to the people you care for. Incorporating biomedical, surgical, psychological, social, and spiritual perspectives, it...
by Harold G Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1999
Explore a new way of pastoral care that enables caregivers to develop relationships and provide meaningful pastoral care to the children and youth they encounter!
The Pastoral Care of Children focuses on the need for pastoral caregivers, clergy and chaplains to develop relationships with youths and gives you suggestions to overcome the an
Bioethics from a Faith Perspective
Ethics in Health Care for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Discover the spiritual community's position on bioethics issues!
Bioethics from a Faith Perspective: Ethics in Health Care for the Twenty-First Century offers a meaningful, rational, faith-oriented framework for deciding how to deal with important biomedical health care issues. Organ donation,...
by Harold G Koenig, Charles J Topper
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
An enlightening guide to bringing spirituality into the helping professions!
This unique handbook will help you make the journey that will turn spirituality into the touchstone of your practice. For too long, spirituality has been a skeleton in the closet of many practitioners, but now there...
A Gospel for the Mature Years
Finding Fulfillment by Knowing and Using Your Gifts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
There’s good news for middle-aged and older adults who wish to grow emotionally and spiritually and experience satisfaction and joy in their mature years regardless of circumstance, health, or age. A Gospel for the Mature Years shows you how to achieve joy and fulfillment by developing a deep, personal,...
Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts
Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Witness the wonder of divine power when faith in God overcomes human frailty!
Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts: Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain provides chaplains, doctors, nurses, psychologists, and counselors with insight into the experiences of individual hospital patients. You'll learn...
Health and Well-Being in Islamic Societies
Background, Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
From the first hospitals to pioneering pharmacy techniques, the early history of medicine reflects the groundbreaking contributions of Islamic physicians and scientists. Less recognized, however, is the impact of Islam on the health and daily health practices of modern day Muslims.
Meticulously...
Parish Nursing
A Handbook for the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Make parish nursing an alternative to shrinking healthcare resources!
Because of shrinking healthcare resources, both human and monetary, parish nurses in the future will be called upon to deal with rising numbers of elderly and the end-of-life issues that accompany aging. Parish Nursing: A...
Pastoral Counseling
A Gestalt Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This contemporary counseling approach seamlessly meshes with pastoral theology!
Gestalt therapy is designed to be simple, free of jargon, and emotionally liberating--ideal for pastoral counseling in the context of a variety of faiths. This primer is designed to give pastors and rabbis a working...
Ways of the Desert
Becoming Holy Through Difficult Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Discover how negative experiences such as loneliness, depression, and anxiety can be opportunities for personal growth!
Ways of the Desert: Becoming Holy Through Difficult Times analyzes the similarities and differences between spiritual and psychological experiences. This book shows religious...