Understanding Existential Health for Dementia Care - Paperback

by Lars Johan Danbolt (Editor), Tatjana Schnell (Editor), Gry Stålsett (Editor)

This book is a groundbreaking book that describes how existential health can enrich and expand bio-psycho-social approaches to dementia care, recognizing that well-being extends beyond physical, neurological, and cognitive symptoms.

Author Biography

Lars Johan Danbolt is Head of research at Research Center for Existential Health, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway, and adjunct professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway. Main research fields are existential health, clinical psychology of religion, and practical theology.

Tatjana Schnell is Professor of Existential Psychology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway, and Fellow at the Humanistic University Berlin, Germany. As head of the Existential Psychology Lab, she focuses on fundamental questions of how to conceptualize and measure meaning in life and on the nexus of meaning in life and health, work, worldview, suffering and dying, civic engagement, and alienation.

Gry Stålsett is a specialist in Clinical Psychology and Associate Professor of Psychology of Religion at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo. She serves as the Head of Clinical Practice at Bispehagen, Center for Existential Therapy and Counseling in Stavanger, Norway.

Peter la Cour PhD, is health psychologist, and adjunct professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway. Main research interests are existential health, the psychology of pain and suffering, and psychology of religion.