NDLI: Transforming Pain into Beauty: On Art, Healing, and Care for the Spirit

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Ettun, Rachel Schultz, Michael Gil, Bar-sela
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	From drawing to sculpture, poetry to journaling, and dance to music and song, the arts can have a major impact on patients' spiritual well-being and health. The arts empower patients to fulfill the basic human drive to create and give patients a sense of possibility. Through creative expression, patients regain a feeling of wholeness, individually and as part of the larger world. Although spiritual caregivers have made occasional use of the arts, it would be better for the arts to be seen as a pillar of spiritual care provision. This paper provides a model for arts-based spiritual care (chaplaincy) in oncology/hematology and elsewhere. We discuss how to match the art form intervention to the individual patient and give examples of many kinds of uniquely spiritual arts-based interventions. In life, there are occasional “caseuras,” or ruptures. Using a theoretical foundation drawn from theologian Michael Fishbane, our model of arts-based spiritual care bridges the experience of the caesura to a renewed sense of meaning, or spiritual reorientation, that can be discovered within the reality of illness. Additionally, the ambiguity and playfulness inherent to creative expression strengthen the patient's flexibility and resilience.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/789852
Starting Page	789852
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1741427X
e-ISSN	17414288
Journal	Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM
Volume Number	2014
Language	English
Publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publisher Date	2014-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Subject Keyword	Complementary and alternative medicine Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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