Course 1: Understanding Health and Healing
Course 1:
Understanding
Health and Healing
Health and Healing
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Introduction
Whole Person Care Program
Understanding Health & Healing
Motivation for Spirituality in Health Care
Personal, Environmental, & Staff Preparation for Whole Person
Strategies for Spiritual Care in a Health Care Setting
Living & Maturing as a Christian Health Care Professional
Course Resources
Understanding Health and Healing Outline
Course 1
Understanding Health and Healing
Course Outline
- Why Whole Person Care?
- Mind, Body, and Spirit
- Interconnected Practice
- Understanding Health and Healing
- Conclusion
Elements of the Whole Person
Elements of the Whole Person
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Mark 12:30 (NIV)
Whole Person Care
Whole Person Care
The practice of integrating the multiple facets that define us as human into the regular routines of patient doctor interactions and care.
Just as good physical care requires the integrated assessment of multiple organ systems, Whole Person Care requires the evaluation of all possible issues impacting a person’s well-being, including their mind, body, and spirit.
Proper Whole Person Care is meant to improve health in all aspects of a patient’s life.
Case Study: Maria
Case Study
Maria
Why Whole Person Care?
More Effective Care
Generally Accepted by Patients
Accrediting Organizations
Biblical
Hope
Whole Person Care
Whole Person Care
You can be trained
Whole Person Care interconnections are too complex.
Common Medical Practices that Require Integration
Scenario
Common Medical Practices that Require Integration
78-year-old Grandmother with a Broken Hip
When you look into the patient’s history, you find the following:
- ✓ Poor Cardiovascular Health
- ✓ Peripheral Artery Disease
- ✓ Hypertension
- ✓ Previous TIAs
- ✓ Small Non-Debilitating Strokes
- ✓ Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
What could have happened if you had started surgery before knowing her history?
Case Study: Maria (1)
Case Study
Maria
You need to assess all components of the person to provide Whole Person Care.
Case Study: Maria (2)
Case Study
Maria
Deciding if this case is a medical miracle or not, is not for us to decide.
Case Study: Maria (3)
Case Study
Maria
What about whole person care is appealing to you?
The Whole Person
The Whole Person
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
The Whole Person has multiple interconnecting dimensions
Historical Perspective
Historical Perspective
Greek Philosophers
Aristotle Plato
Biblical
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:5 (ESV)
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ESV)
For more information, see “Course 1 Resources" in the "Resources" section in this Whole Person Care Program.
Note:
Biblically the word “soul” can refer to mind, a living being, breath, or an immortal spirit, depending on when and in what language it was written.
Mind
MIND
The mind is the element that enables a person to be aware of the world and personal experiences and that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, and judges.
Healthy
Unhealthy
- Logical thinking
- Grows in knowledge and skills
- Understands and comprehends data
- Functioning memory
- Illogical thinking
- Unable to acquire knowledge and skills
- Confusion
- Memory loss
Body
BODY
The human body is the entire physical structure of a human being. It is composed of many different types of cells that together form tissues and subsequently organ systems. They ensure homeostasis and viability of the human body.
Healthy
Unhealthy
- Proper amounts of energy
- Vigorous fitness
- Excellent physical functioning
- Excellent physical structure
- Lack of energy
- Disease
- Abnormal physical functioning
- Abnormal physical structure
Spirit
SPIRIT
The spirit is the non-physical part of a person that includes the spiritual, emotional, social, and religious components of personhood.
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:7 (NIV)
Spiritual Life
SPIRIT
Spiritual Life
Based on personal relationship with God
Healthy
Unhealthy
- Receives identity from God
- Receives love and acceptance from God
- Retains trust in God during stress
- Grows and matures in spiritual life
- Recognizes brokenness and need for forgiveness
- Maintains confidence in self-worth
- Finds meaning in life
- Retains hope for the future
- Does not seek connection with God
- Doubt in God’s faithfulness during stress
- Lacks purpose, confidence, self-worth
- Loses hope and stops self-care
- Receives identity from performance or others
- Searches desperately for self-worth and acceptance
- Identified by past failures and shame
- Overwhelmed by unresolved guilt
Emotional Life
SPIRIT
Emotional Life
Instinctive state or intuitive feelings as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge
Healthy
Unhealthy
- Identification and ownership of emotions emerging during illness
- Acknowledging and addressing painful experiences
- Willingness to change behaviors
- Dominance of fear, anger, hurt, loss, grief
- Reemergence of unresolved feelings
- Allowing feelings to dictate behaviors
Social Life
SPIRIT
Social Life
Matters related to family, culture, community, and supportive relationships
Healthy
Unhealthy
- Permits others to assist and influence them
- Accepts others as they are
- Positive, ongoing involvement with family
- Lives responsibly for their community and the earth
- Chooses isolation due to shame
- Unable to demonstrate love
- Strained and broken relationships with family
- Self protects and withdraws
Religious Life
SPIRIT
Religious Life
An organized system of beliefs, practices, and symbols related to the transcendent
Healthy
Unhealthy
- A worldview that is based on God
- Regular involvement in activities that enhance the spiritual life
- Values relationships and personhood
- Bases worldview on something other than God
- Avoids involvement in activities that enhance the spiritual life
- Values include whatever enhances self; relationships are for exploitation
Maria's Warning Signs
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
Maria's Warning Signs
Maria's Answers: Mind
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
Maria's Answers: Mind
I had racing thoughts, as my mind considered all the different problems the baby might have to deal with, and what it would be like to be the baby’s mother.
Maria's Answers: Body
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
Maria's Answers: Body
I struggled with insomnia. I couldn’t stop thinking about what might happen to my baby, what my life would be like.
Maria's Answers: Spirit
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
Maria's Answers: Spirit
I felt sadness; the pregnancy wasn’t starting as a happy experience.
I wanted to isolate socially at first, due to my shame.
I felt guilt and was actually told by a doctor that these problems occur more often in Hispanic women, and maybe the child was malformed because of my age, my race, or my diabetes.
My relationship with God was affected; I was worried that He was punishing me for a specific sin in my past.
Your Response
Your Response
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
The Whole Person has multiple interconnecting dimensions
Personal Struggles and Challenges
Personal Struggles and Challenges
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
Understanding Health and Healing
Understanding Health and Healing
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
3 John 1:2 (ESV)
Health
Health
World Health Organization (WHO):
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Merriam-Webster:
The condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; especially: freedom from physical disease or pain.
How might the practices of health care professionals differ depending on which definition they agree with?
Your understanding and belief about health and illness dictate how you approach your professional practice, which in turn may cause you to place limitations on patient care.
Definition of Illness
Definition of Illness
May refer to any condition that causes pain, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted.
(Wikipedia)
Produces multidimensional brokenness that impacts a person as a whole.
(Elder, 1999)
Your understanding and belief about health and illness dictate how you approach your professional practice, which in turn may cause you to place limitations on patient care.
Illness
Illness
Please write down your answers to the following questions for later review.
How do you define illness?
What is your role in addressing illness? How much control do you have in this role?
What are your limitations in addressing illness?
What is God’s role in addressing illness?
How can illness be connected to spiritual issues?
Your understanding and belief about health and illness dictate how you approach your professional practice, which in turn may cause you to place limitations on patient care.
Illness from a Christian Perspective (1)
Illness
Illness from a
Christian Perspective
Before Sin entered into the world, there was no illness or death.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.'
Genesis 2:15-17 (ESV)
Illness from a Christian Perspective (2)
Illness
Illness from a
Christian Perspective
Before the forbidden fruit was eaten:
- Physical: Had excellent health, there was no illness or death, had strength to work the land in the garden (Gen. 2:15).
- Cognitive: Their minds were able to think clearly, manage the garden, and name every animal (Gen. 1:27-29; 2:15; 2:19-20).
- Social/emotional: God understood man’s need for relationship, and gave him Eve, and instructed them to become one in relationship with each other (Gen. 2:22-24).
- Spiritual: Adam and Eve walked freely with God in the garden, and they felt no shame (Gen. 2:25).
The Forbidden Fruit (1)
Illness
The Forbidden Fruit
Adam and Eve both knew that they should not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, Satan, who took the form of a serpent, planted doubts about God’s character.
'You will not certainly die,' the serpent said to the woman. 'For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'
Genesis 3:4-5 (NIV)
The Forbidden Fruit (2)
Illness
The Forbidden Fruit
As a result of this betrayal of God and the eating of the forbidden fruit, Sin enters the world. Sin’s effects on Adam and Eve were instantaneous.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:7 (NIV)
In order for Adam and Eve to suddenly realize that they were naked, they had to think of themselves differently. This brought about the emotions of shame, vulnerability, and fear.
Effects of Sin
Illness
Effects of Sin
After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, in Genesis 3:14-20, Sin entered into the world and changed many things.
- Mental: Focus shift from God to self (Gen. 3:13).
- Emotional: Shame and blaming each other (Gen. 3:7-8).
- Physical: Childbirth would now be painful, mankind will now have a shortened lifespan, work would no longer be easy (Gen. 3:16; Rom. 5:12).
- Spiritual: Mankind’s strong connection with God is broken (Gen. 3:7-8, 32-34).
- Social: Man and woman’s relationship would become more complicated (Gen. 3:7-8, 12, 16).
- Effects on Creation: The earth itself would be cursed, creating for the first time thorns and thistles (Gen. 3:16-19; Rom. 8:18-25).
This gives a different understanding of Sin. Sin is a condition that is inherited and infects all of mankind.
Adam and Eve’s Symptoms
Illness
Adam and Eve’s Symptoms
If Adam and Eve were to seek medical care, how would they have described their symptoms to a doctor?
For more information, see “Course 1 Resources" in the "Resources" section in this Whole Person Care Program.
Important Note (1)
If someone is sick, it does not necessarily mean that person has sinned and now is being punished. This is a common misunderstanding even among Christians. The disciples of Jesus had an incorrect understanding of this concept as well, which was addressed by Jesus in John 9:1-7.
Important Note (2)
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.' Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him, 'Go, wash in the pool of Siloam' (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
John 9:1-7 (ESV)
Sin and Illness (1)
Illness
Sin and Illness
Your understanding and belief about health and illness dictate how you approach your professional practice, which in turn may cause you to place limitations on patient care.
If illness is a direct result of Sin, then…
Does all illness have a spiritual dimension?
Is the role of a health care professional to promote healing or merely to promote prolonged life?
Is it only God who can bring about complete healing to a patient’s mind, body, and spirit?
Sin and Illness (2)
Illness
Sin and Illness
Your understanding and belief about health and illness dictate how you approach your professional practice, which in turn may cause you to place limitations on patient care.
How do you define illness?
What is your role in addressing illness? How much control do you have in this role?
What are your limitations in addressing illness?
What is God’s role in addressing illness?
How is illness connected to spiritual issues?
Health and Healing
Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Healing
Healing occurs through restoration of the Whole Person from brokenness to excellent functioning of the mind, body, and spirit. Where recovery from illness can be attained through medical practices, true healing can only be found in God.
Your understanding and belief about health and illness dictate how you approach your professional practice, which in turn may cause you to place limitations on patient care.
Health and Healing Retrospective
If healing only alters the physical processes, then people with distorted thinking, fractured relationships, and loss of personhood simply have stronger bodies in which to experience their brokenness.
Conclusion
Conclusion
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (ESV)
Whole Person Care Review
Whole Person Care
The practice of integrating the multiple facets that define us as human into the regular routines of patient doctor interactions and care.
Just as good physical care requires the integrated assessment of multiple organ systems, Whole Person Care requires the evaluation of all possible issues impacting a person’s well-being, including their mind, body, and spirit.
Proper Whole Person Care is meant to improve health in all aspects of a patient’s life.
Whole Person Care Leads to True Healing
Whole Person Care Leads to True Healing
Mind, Body, Spirit Review
The Whole Person
MIND
BODY
SPIRIT
The Whole Person has multiple interconnecting dimensions
Health and Healing Review
Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Healing
Healing occurs through restoration of the Whole Person from brokenness to excellent functioning of the mind body and spirit. Where recovery from illness can be attained though medical practices, true healing can only be found in God.
If healing only alters the physical processes, then people with distorted thinking, fractured relationships, and loss of personhood simply have stronger bodies in which to experience their brokenness.
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