This edition of the Conversations on Cancer public panel discussion series will start with a brief exploration of the difference between religion and spirituality. We’ll focus both on patients’ experience with their spirituality during cancer care, and address how the religious literacy and the spirituality of their providers may affect this care. Of particular interest is how the provision of good spiritual care rests on religious literacy and how increasing religious literacy and spiritual care may increase rapport and foster good communication between providers and patients – especially underserved patients.
Christina Puchalski, MD, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Founder and Director of George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health talks about Spirituality in Health Care.
Join Dan Johnson, a Chaplain at Mayo Clinic, to hear how people who are living with cancer can reconnect with the parts of their life that give them lasting inner peace and joy. This video offers reflection activities and valuable insights for all people, whether they are religious or not.
Spiritual care is a critical element of patient care, but guiding breast cancer patients who have different faiths and beliefs can feel challenging for providers. How can healthcare providers assist breast cancer patients in decision making across the continuum of care while incorporating patients’ spiritual beliefs?
UCSF Spiritual Care Chaplain Rabbi Jeremy Sher discusses the definition of spirituality and the various ways it can support us on our healing path. Thriver Tolu Ladeinde also shares her personal story and the ways her spirituality has changed and supported her throughout her journey. Part of the Living Well After Brain Cancer webinar series in the UCSF Sheri Sobrato Brisson Brain Cancer Survivorship Program.
Critical challenges for advancing spiritual care in healthcare include developing outpatient spiritual care and practicing evidence-based outcome-oriented spiritual care that is built on a foundation of empathic presence. In this webinar we will describe a pilot study of spiritual care for cancer outpatients. The project illustrates how spiritual care providers can successfully address these important challenges.