ILLNESS AND SPIRITUALITY

PHE3ISB

2014

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject, students are given the opportunity to review contemporary theories of illness narratives and first-person accounts of illness experience and of caregiving in illness in order to develop a phenomenology of offering and receiving care in chronic and life-threatening illness. Particular attention will be paid to contemporary understandings of, and approaches to, spirituality emerging from such narratives. Implications for assessing the spiritual strengths and needs of both patients and caregivers, and developing spiritual care plans, will be discussed in the context of the emerging health care spiritual assessment literature.

Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Lindsay Carey

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: Restricted to 30 students. Related subjects are PHE3IPC and PHE3DDB

Learning resources

Readings

Resource Type	Title	Resource Requirement	Author and Year	Publisher
Readings	Spirituality and palliative care	Recommended	Rumbold, B (ed) 2002	OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MELBOURNE

Distance Education, 2014, Semester 2, Distance Education

Overview

Online enrolment: No

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Lindsay Carey

Class requirements

Lecture/SeminarWeek: 31 - 43
One 2.0 hours lecture/seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via distance education.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%
one 2,000-word literature review		40
one 2,500-word essay		60

Melbourne, 2014, Semester 2, Day