Week 11: Spirituality Flashcards
What are the goals of spiritual caregiving?
- Fostering integrity within people
- Promoting interpersonal bonding
- Respecting and enhancing personal quests for meaning of life
- Recognizing the significance of existential experience
What are the four characteristics of spiritualy?
Relationship with self, relationship with nature, relationship with others, relationship with a deity
Expand on what is meant by “relationship with self” as a characteristic of spirituality?
a. Inner strength and self-reliance
b. Self-knowledge (who one is, what one can do)
c. Attitudes (trust, trust in life/future, peace of mind, harmony with self)
Expand on what is meant by “relationship with nature” as a characteristic of spirituality?
a. Knowing about plants, wildlife, weather, elements of physical environment
b. Communing with nature; preserving nature
c. Connection or relationship among yourself, others, the world
d. May have enhanced capacity to cope with illness
e. Harmony with the world
Expand on what is meant by “relationship with others” as a characteristic of spirituality?
a. Sharing time, knowledge, and resources; reciprocating
b. Caring for children, elderly, sick
c. Reaffirming the living and the dead (visiting, photos, cemetery meetings)
d. Support network
Expand on what is meant by “relationship with deity” as a characteristic of spirituality?
a. Religious or non-religious
b. Prayer or meditation
c. Religious articles
d. Being in nature
e. Church participation
What can a health challenge bring/present in terms of a person’s spirituality?
- A time of spiritual renewal – the discovery of inner strengths and resources
- A time of spiritual disconnectedness – feelings of distress and powerlessness
- A time when people begin to question the meaning and purpose of their life
Define Spiritual Distress
when life circumstances overwhelm our resources, and our ability to cope
