The split professional identity of the chaplain as a spiritual caregiver in contemporary Dutch health care: are there implications for the United States?
| Autor: | Hetty Zock |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Conceptualization
Social work National Health Programs business.industry education Chaplaincy Service Hospital Identity (social science) Pastoral Care Context (language use) General Medicine humanities United States Nursing Health care Spirituality Pastoral care Medicine Humans Spiritual care business Clergy Social psychology Netherlands |
| Zdroj: | The journal of pastoral carecounseling : JPCC. 62(1-2) |
| ISSN: | 1542-3050 |
| Popis: | The professional identity of the chaplain in Dutch health care institutions is in need of a new theoretical underpinning. The continued employment of the "spiritual caregiver," as the professional is called in the Netherlands, may be at stake. In former days, she or he was primarily a religious office holder fulfilling ecclesiastical functions. Against the background of secularization and individualization of religions and worldviews, the spiritual caregiver now turns more and more into an existential counselor, focusing on the search for meaning and life-orientation of all the clients/patients/residents, irrespective of their religion or philosophy of life. This brings along the need for a conceptualization of spiritual care. What is the spiritual caregiver's particular contribution to care and treatment, compared to that of, for instance, psychotherapists and social workers? What are the specific aims, methods, and key images of the profession? This brief communication sketches the specific context in which the Dutch spiritual caregiver has to work and the identity dilemmas he or she faces. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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