Conceptualising spirituality and religion for healthcare

Pesut, Barbara; Fowler, Marsha; Taylor, Elizabeth Johnston; Reimer‐Kirkham, Sheryl; Sawatzky, Rick

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02344.x

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“…A significant contributor to the unease with which spirituality is addressed within the health service is the echo of its origins in a religious and classicalphilosophical world which healthcare providers do not necessarily know or share (see Paley 2008b;Pesut et al 2008). It carries implications of a distinct 'spirit' in each human being which resists empirical or quantitative study, and therefore does not sit well in an evidence-based professional culture.…”

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Can Cognitive Science Rescue ‘Spiritual Care’ from a Metaphysical Backwater?

Kevern

2013

Journal for the Study of Spirituality

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Spiritual care' has a valued but precarious place in contemporary UK health care. Although the term is widely used, it only attracts significant attention and resources related to care at the end of life; elsewhere, spiritual care is often under-resourced and perfunctory. The author argues that a major reason for this is that proponents of spiritual care have so far failed to speak a language comprehensible to practitioners and health managers more familiar with reductionist, evidence-based work. He proposes that current developments in the cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion have the potential to provide such a language, and to refocus a subject that has been muddled by conceptual vagueness and the multiplication of assessment tools. As a result, attention to spirituality could be liberated from its current ghetto in palliative and long-term care and become more firmly embedded and integrated into everyday nursing practice.

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confidence: 97%

Can Cognitive Science Rescue ‘Spiritual Care’ from a Metaphysical Backwater?

Kevern

2013

Journal for the Study of Spirituality

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“…Increasingly, the term spirituality is used to refer to existential and experiential pursuits pertaining to religious or spiritual values and beliefs, whereas religion refers specifically to the institutional contexts in which those values and beliefs are enacted (Larson et al 1998;Pesut et al 2008;Sawatzky et al 2005). Accordingly, Wagener and Newton Malony suggested that, within the context of adolescent development, spirituality pertains to "the essential potentiality for addressing the ultimate questions" and involves "experiences of transcendence, good and evil, belonging and connectedness, meaning and purpose" (Wagener and Newton Malony 2006, p. 139).…”

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An Investigation of the Relationships Between Spirituality, Health Status and Quality of Life in Adolescents

Sawatzky

Gadermann

Pesut

2009

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This study examines the relationships between six spirituality-related attributes and quality of life (QOL) in adolescents, and the extent to which these relationships are mediated by perceived physical and mental health status and five important life domains (family, friends, living environment, school experiences, and perception of self). The data were obtained via a cross-sectional health survey of 8,225 adolescents in British Columbia, Canada. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized relationships. All spiritual attributes are significantly associated with three or more of the life domains, and four of the attributes significantly explain global QOL after controlling for the other variables in the multivariate model. The attributes indicative of adolescents' feelings about their future and other existential matters were found to be relatively most explanatory with respect to global QOL. The predominant mediators include adolescents' satisfaction with their family, their perceived self, and their perceived mental health status. Spirituality is important with respect to adolescents' QOL. The multivariate model provides preliminary insights into the relevance of several attributes of spirituality and the possible mechanisms by which these attributes may contribute to adolescents' QOL.

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“…The therapists were disturbed by their own strong emotions and felt that their own education had neglected spiritual/religious training. On the other hand, Pesut et al (2008) claim that a healthy spirituality or religion will transcend itself into compassion; recognize the unavoidability of suffering; seek to rectify that suffering at the individual and public levels; make room for difference while searching for commonality; and decline to reduce the discourse to a search for personal, political, and economic gain. Fredriksson and Lindström (2002) revealed that if psychiatric patients could answer the why-question in suffering, they also could interpret the suffering in such a way that expansion and conciliation were made possible.…”

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“…It was revealed that the predictor, "years as a nurse in psychiatry" (i.e., experience), was negatively correlated to self-rated skills to attend to a patient's spiritual needs. According to Pesut et al (2008) spirituality for health care purposes must acknowledge the diverse perspectives of a globalised society. Sweden is a multicultural country with different religious beliefs as well as non-religious identities or spiritualities.…”

Section: Psychiatric Nurses' Self-rated Competence and Clinical Envirmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychiatric Nurses’ Self-Rated Competence

Ewalds‐Kvist

Algotsson²,

Bergström³

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Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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This study explored the self-rated competence of 52 Swedish psychiatric nurses in three clinical environments: forensic psychiatry, general psychiatric inpatient care, and clinical non-residential psychiatric care. A questionnaire wtih 56 statements from nine areas of expertise was completed. Forensic nurses were more skilled in safety and quality and in dealing with violence and conflicts. Non-specialist nurses appreciated their skills more so than specialist nurses in health promotion and illness prevention and conduct, information, and education. Women were inclined to invite patients' relatives for education and information. Men attended to a patients' spiritual needs; they also coped with violence and managed conflicts.

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Conceptualising spirituality and religion for healthcare

Cited by 96 publications

References 42 publications

Can Cognitive Science Rescue ‘Spiritual Care’ from a Metaphysical Backwater?

Can Cognitive Science Rescue ‘Spiritual Care’ from a Metaphysical Backwater?

An Investigation of the Relationships Between Spirituality, Health Status and Quality of Life in Adolescents

Psychiatric Nurses’ Self-Rated Competence

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