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Transforming Pain into Beauty: On Art, Healing, and Care for the Spirit
Joint Authors
Schultz, Michael
Ettun, Rachel
Bar-Sela, Gil
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-04-16
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
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.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ettun, Rachel& Schultz, Michael& Bar-Sela, Gil. 2014. Transforming Pain into Beauty: On Art, Healing, and Care for the Spirit. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1020271
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ettun, Rachel…[et al.]. Transforming Pain into Beauty: On Art, Healing, and Care for the Spirit. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1020271
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ettun, Rachel& Schultz, Michael& Bar-Sela, Gil. Transforming Pain into Beauty: On Art, Healing, and Care for the Spirit. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1020271
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1020271