Spirituality in healthcare

A discussion post on the account of disease and healing given in a set of topic readings: what in them held your attention, and whether the analysis they offer is one you accept — with the reasons the prompt's closing instruction asks for.

Three questions with three separate word counts, and the middle one is worth as much as the other two together — which tells you where the theology has to do actual work.

A two-part benchmark assignment: build your own spiritual needs assessment tool of at least five questions using The Joint Commission guidance, interview a patient, family member or friend about their experience as a patient and document the transcript, then write a 500-750 word analysis of the interview experience against the required prompts.

A three-part discussion post responding to Craigie's chapter on Collaborative Spiritual Care Conversations: your thoughts on the framework as presented, whether the conversation model could apply in your own practice, and what you see as its challenges alongside where your competencies lie.

The Personal Worldview Inventory looks like an invitation to share beliefs, but its architecture is stricter: define spirituality's competing meanings, show you understand pluralism, scientism and postmodernism, and then answer seven specific worldview questions — yours, argued, in 800 to 1,000 words.