Research

Compassionate Conversations to have with your patients, particularly when delivering traumatic or difficult news.

Stephen Post, PhD & Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics at Stony Brook University, shares his research on how giving back and "doing good" contributes to a healthy life.

Steven Cole, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, elaborates through his research on how spirituality effects our bodies down to the genome. Feeling disconnected from the rest of humaity has a profound impact on one's health, just as feeling positive and a part of something greater does, as well. The way we navigate every day life changes our molecular world.

Robert Emmons, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of California at Davis shows how a daily gratitude practice leads to improved health and well-being; grace and gratitude are associated with lower levels of depression, anxiety and with higher levels of self-compassion.

Robert Emmons, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University at Davis, shares his research on gratitude and it's role in disease prevention, health promotion and personal wellness.

Harold Koenig, MD, MHSc, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University School of Medicine is a key researcher and speaker in the area of Spirituality and Patient Care. In this overview, he defines spirituality and elaborates on the challenges and opportunities we face in today's healthcare system, while providing research on the relationship between religion and health.

Harold Koenig, MD, MHSc, Director of Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke Unversity School of Medicine shares research on the impact stress, positive emotions and negative emotions has on our health.

Harold Koenig, MD, MHSc, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University School of Medicine, presents a very thorough research base that justifies spiritual care interventions and explains why religion / spirituality is related to health.

Harold Koenig, MD, MHSc, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University School of Medicine shares four areas of research and the impact spirituality has on depression, religious-integrated psychotherapy, caregiver stress and PTSD in our military.

An excellent research-based essay on the future of healthcare and the critical role the arts will play in whole-patient care.