Springer Verlag publishes article by Prof Dr med Arndt Büssing

The chapter on Instruments for Spiritual Measurement by Prof. Dr Arndt Büssing from the Gerhard Kienle Chair at Witten/Herdecke University focuses on the types of instruments that can be useful for researching spirituality and attempts to answer the following key questions: What aspects of spirituality or spiritual care do these scales and instruments measure? Why is there a need to measure these aspects of spirituality? What do they contribute to understanding? How do these scales and measurement instruments help researchers, educators and clinical practitioners? This chapter is therefore more academic in nature and will be of particular interest to those conducting research in this area and to educators who wish to develop an awareness of the different attitudes to spirituality. Nevertheless, it also describes instruments that can easily be used in a clinical context to assess the spiritual needs of patients.

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Link to full edition:

https:// link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78575-7

Link to the article by Prof Büssing:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-78575-7_7