Breaking the Spiritual Care Code: Toward a Standard of Practice

This book intends to create a standard of practice for spiritual care. It helps us to know how to start, where to focus, how to respond and how to communicate our spiritual care. It focuses on creating a standard of care rather than accumulating knowledge on conditions or situations that can change from case to case. It focuses on who we are for people more than what we do for them.

Dennis E. Kenny is a trained psychologist, theologian, and spiritual caregiver who has been a translator of ideas throughout his career; he has been a director of the Institute for Health and Healing in San Francisco and of Spiritual Care and Healing Services at Cleveland Clinic. He helped develop Code Lavender for hospitals in the US. He is the author of Promise of the Soul. He received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest award given by ACPE.