spiritual care
Tending the soul
Spiritual care is support addressing a person's spiritual or religious needs, especially during illness, crisis, or approaching death.
Hospital chaplains provide spiritual care regardless of the patient's faith tradition.
The term encompasses prayer, ritual, counseling about meaning and purpose, and simply being present with someone in distress.
The hospice team includes a spiritual care coordinator.
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- chaplainInstitutional clergy member
- faith communityReligious group sharing beliefs
- end of lifeCessation of existence
- prayerAddress to deity
forgiveness · dignity · sacred music · sacred space · transcendence · higher power · anointing · compassion · holding space · hope · theodicy · mindfulness · gratitude · meditation · inner peace · interconnectedness · bedside · resilience
- faith healthcarefaith healing, hospital chaplain, chaplaincy, healing ministry, health ministry
- patient carepatient safety, disease management, home health, patient advocacy, patient education
- spiritual carechaplaincy, healing prayer, healing prayers, bedside prayer, prayer practices
- spiritual healinghealing prayer, faith healing, divine healing, laying on of hands, laying on hands
- supportive carecounseling services, grief counseling, emotional support, support networks, coping strategies
- pastoral carepastoral counseling, church counseling, religious counseling, faith-based counseling, Christian counseling
spiritual caremedical treatment
Care for illness
medical care · emergency medicine · healthcare · nursing care · surgical treatment