Spirituality Flashcards
What is spirituality?
A dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity - people seek meaning, purpose and transcendence. Expressed through beliefs, values, traditions, practices.
Clinical definition of spiritual care
Assessment, counselling,
support and ritual in matters of a person’s beliefs, traditions, values and practices enabling the person to access their own spiritual resources.
Consumer definition of spiritual care
Feel more connected with yourself,
other people or something beyond. Could involve your religious beliefs, practices or the values important to you. Supporting what gives meaning and purpose to your life.
Spiritual distress
Impaired ability to experience meaning and purpose in life
through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature,
nature, and/or a power greater than oneself.
Spiritual distress may occur when…
A person’s life situation is in conflict with their values or beliefs, there is a loss of meaning, hope or purpose, there is an inability to express and find comfort in usual sources of strength.
Example of a person’s life situation being in conflict with their values or beliefs
A severe illness or disability, death of a child etc.
Feelings of chronic grief
Pervasive sadness, permanent, periodic, potentially progressive
Grief feelings at time of initial diagnosis
Denial, shock, anger, fear, sadness, confusion, guilt
Grief
How people deal/cope with loss and adjust with life
Anticipatory grief
Knows/perceives something is going to happen and experiences a variety of grief up until the event (grief prior to event)
Absent grief
In denial
Chronic grief
Crippling grief
Delayed grief
Fine initially, later in life it catches up to them
Inhibited grief
Exhibited to those who can’t express their grief
Unauthorised grief
Feel you can’t be vulnerable in a particular environment
