Spiritual Care

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Spiritual care can be understood as a partial aspect of palliative care or as a scientific discipline.

Spiritual care as a partial aspect in the accompaniment of the seriously ill and the dying

According to the Total Pain concept of the pain therapist and founder of the hospice movement Cicely Saunders , pain is influenced by several dimensions: the physical, social, psychological and spiritual level. For palliative care as a multi-professional rgung seriously ill and dying Santander Spiritual Care belongs as an aspect with which all employees involved in this area: Within the team in the common exchange or by means of supervision , but especially in terms of the to be supplied patients is unfulfilled spirituality as a cause and perceived amplifiers of pain and discomfort. Fate , home , identity , self-esteem play just as important a role as belief , religion , denomination and rituals . These aspects of spirituality affect all so-called transitional crises in life, including the end of life. For this reason, pastors are called in to accompany the seriously ill and dying ; Ultimately, however, spiritual care is also the responsibility of all health professions.

Spiritual Care as a Scientific Discipline

Spiritual Care is a scientific discipline on the border between medicine , theology and hospital chaplaincy , whose background theory is given as philosophical anthropology . Spiritual Care thus endeavors beyond the traditional Christian context of hospital pastoral care to perceive and research spirituality and religiosity as the needs of non-church or non-Christian patients.

According to the WHO definition of palliative care , holistic care of critically ill patients includes "prevention and alleviation of suffering through early detection, faultless assessment and treatment of pain and other stressful physical, psychosocial and spiritual complaints". That is why research and theoretical reflection on spirituality belongs in the medical context and has also been part of medical training for some years. Spiritual care is not limited to the end of life.

Research and Teaching

In Germany, the first professorship for Spiritual Care was established at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Clinic for Palliative Medicine at the Großhadern Clinic ) in 2010 with financial support from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft . It was ecumenically occupied by Professors Eckhard Frick (Catholic) and Traugott Roser (Protestant). After Roser moved to the University of Münster, half of his position was filled with Niels Christian Hvidt in March 2013. The endowed professorship , which is limited to five years , initially expired on May 31, 2015, but was refilled in 2017 with the religious psychologist Constantin Klein. The International Society for Health and Spirituality , which publishes the journal Spiritual Care , was initiated by the professorship .

Internationally, there are numerous research projects in the field of spiritual care , especially in the Jewish context, as well as training associations that teach and train employees in the field of spiritual care , such as the Kashrout association in Israel or the NAJC (National Association of Jewish Chaplains) in the USA , which also publishes the journal Jewish Spiritual Care .

Since 1993, the Buddhist Rigpa centers have also offered study and training programs on spiritual care worldwide . In Ireland, Spiritual Care is offered to people in crisis as well as to the sick and dying. The first Buddhist center for spiritual care in Germany was opened in 2016 in Bad Saarow am Scharmützelsee and is called Sukhavati.

In autumn 2015, a professorship ad personam for Spiritual Care was established at the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich and filled by Simon Peng-Keller . This professorship offers an interdisciplinary range of courses in cooperation with the Medical Faculty and is responsible for research in this area.

literature

Basics

  • Eckhard Frick (Hrsg.): Traugott Roser (Hrsg.): Spirituality and Medicine. Joint care for the sick person. Munich series Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine - Palliative Care - Hospice Work, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-020574-1
  • Traugott Roser (author), Eberhard Schockenhoff (preface), Spiritual Care. Ethical, organizational and spiritual aspects of hospital pastoral care. A practical theological approach. Munich Palliative Care series, Volume 3, 1st edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007; 2nd, expanded and updated edition 2017; ISBN 978-3-17-021439-2
  • Doris Nauer: Spiritual care instead of pastoral care. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015; ISBN 978-3-17-028905-5

items

  • Matthias Raaflaub: Through the crisis with spirituality. "Spiritual Care" is moving in as a new discipline in health care: pastoral care, regardless of religion and denomination. For patients, it is often a question of what carries and nourishes their life, says Hubert Kössler, hospital chaplain at Bern's Inselspital. Daily newspaper Der Bund , Bern, December 27, 2014

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Eckhard Frick, Traugott Roser: "Spiritual Care" - on the spiritual dimension of dying and dying care. In: Die. Dimensions of a basic anthropological phenomenon. Ed .: Franz-Josef Bormann and Gian Domenico Borasio , De Gruyter, Berlin 2012; P. 529
  2. ^ WHO, Definition of Palliative Care , accessed April 25, 2013.
  3. ↑ Niels Christian Hvidt as Professor of Spiritual Care ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved July 6, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de
  4. ↑ Jakob Wetzel: Professorship for the care of the dying: At the end. sueddeutsche.de, July 4, 2015, accessed on July 6, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Endowed professorship for Spiritual Care refilled. Press release of the University of Munich Hospital of July 7, 2017. Accessed on January 23, 2019
  6. ↑ Kashouvot , accessed on April 25, 2013.
  7. ^ National Association of Jewish Chaplains , accessed April 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ Sogyal Rinpoche : The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. A key to a deeper understanding of life and death . 1st edition. OW Barth Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3502611130