Re Lec 2 - Spiritual Care

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SPIRITUAL NEED

The lack of any factor or

factors necessary to establish

and/or maintain a dynamic,personal relationship with

God.



Spiritualneeds?

Love and

relatedness

Meaning

and purpose

forgiveness



Role of the nurse/pastoral

caregiver

• Can be a channel for the

expression to a patient of God’s offer of meaning and

purpose, love and relatedness,

and forgiveness.



The Need for Meaning and

Purpose

The purpose of pastoral caregiver

is to assist an individual or family

to prevent or cope up with theexperience of illness and

sufferings and if necessary, to

find meaning in these

experiences. (Joyce Travelbee)



Search for meaning is the

primary force in life

Involves searching for meaning to life

in general and discovering meaning in

suffering

(Victor Frank)

• The book of Job

(suffering)

• Job was given hope by

God himself and told him

he was in control

The meaning and purpose for life

and meaning and purpose for

suffering can be found in a

person’s relationship with God

and the knowledge of his control

Nurse – assist the patient in finding

meaning in life and in crisis by being a

CATALYST in his relationship with God



The Need for love and

relatedness

The kinds of love that can

determine the happiness or lack of happiness of a person:

• the need love

• the share love• the gift love



“I love you in

spite of your

faults or

ignorance or bad

habits”

“AGAPE”

“ I love you if you

satisfy my needs”

“EROS”

“ I love youbecause of

what you do

and what you

have”

“PLATONIC”

Need

Love

Gift

loveShare

love

KINDS

OF

LOVE



• The need for love and relatedness

is fulfilled in the context of

significant human relationships;

• this need goes hand in hand with

a need for meaning and purpose.



Indicators of a need

for loved from:

• oneself • other people

• God

•

•Feeling of self pity

• insecurity

• isolation• desperation

• fear

• Feelings of self-worth

• joy

• security

• belonging

• hope and courage

Unmet needs Met needs



Role of the Nurse/caregiver in

moments of crisis due to lack

of love and relatedness

• Restore hope by helping the

patient remember God’s presence

with him in the past and helping

him realize that God is also

present with him in his presentillness



The Need for Forgiveness

• Guilt often results from the failure tolive up to one’s expectations of others.

• Sin against God makes us trulyguilty;

• further more it shuts us out of God’s presence;

• guilt feelings also brings about asense of shame



Pastoral care

• is the ministry of care and counseling provided bypastors, chaplains and other religious leaders tomembers of their church or congregation, or topersons of all faiths and none within institutional

settings.• This can range anywhere from home visitation to

formal counseling provided by pastors who arelicensed to offer counseling services.

• This is also frequently referred to as spiritualcare.



• 'Pastoral care' is also a term

applied where people offer help

and caring to others in their

church or wider community.

• Pastoral care in this sense can be

applied to listening, supporting,

encouraging and befriending.

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