PURPOSE Spirituality encompasses a wide range of meanings between holistic wellbeing and mysticism. We explored advanced cancer patients' spiritual experiences of transcendence. METHODS A total of 251 patients with advanced cancer were included and observed (participant observation) over 12 months by a psycho-oncologist/music-therapist. She recorded and documented patients' spontaneously expr...

Abstract Since 1950, Erik Erikson's emphasis on ego‐identity formation as the crucial task of adolescence has been framework for almost all subsequent research and programming to empower positive adolescent development. Chatlos recently described a “Framework Spirituality” contends that identity significantly interferes with should occur after spiritual transformational process optimal more mea...

Gender differences in spirituality and related traits are an assumed reality despite the lack of empirical information that directly compares women and men. I used a national and longitudinal sample of 3,680 college students surveyed with the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey (2000) and later with the College Students’ Beliefs and Values (CSBV) Survey (2003) to e...

BACKGROUND Although spirituality is usually considered a positive resource for coping with illness, spiritual distress may have a negative influence on health outcomes. Tools are needed to identify spiritual distress in clinical practice and subsequently address identified needs. This study describes the first steps in the development of a clinically acceptable instrument to assess spiritual di...

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/04.ONF.E24-E31 Purpose/Objectives: To describe the experience of restoring and maintaining spiritual equilibrium over a 14-month period by women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Research Approach: Qualitative approach, longitudinal design. Setting: Urban breast cancer resource center. Participants: 10 women initially one to five months from diagnosis, 5 of ...