@article{article_347681, title={A General Over View of Spiritual Counselling and Guidance Services Based on Hospital Sample}, journal={Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi}, volume={21}, pages={1267–1304}, year={2017}, DOI={10.18505/cuid.347681}, author={Doğan, Mebrure}, keywords={Spiritual Counselling and Guidance,Health,Hospital,Patient,Pastoral Counselling}, abstract={<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;"> <b>Abstract: </b> Spiritual counselling and guidance is carried out by benefitting from
sources of religion and spirituality. It is a professional psychological help
relationship in which the approaches, methods, and techniques of psychological
counselling and guidance are used. In the world, the field of health is one of
the most common application areas of spiritual counselling and guidance
connecting the approaches of psychology and psychology of religion to each
other together with theology. Researches have clearly demonstrated the positive
association of piety with human health. If religious beliefs help the patient
to cope with the disease, the assistance of a spiritual consultant is needed to
meet his/her spiritual needs. In the present article, the topics of spiritual
counselling and guidance in general; and, in specific, what the spiritual
counselling is in the field of health, proficiencies of the spiritual
counsellors, the need for spiritual counselling in the hospitals together with
the topics of how, to whom and by whom the spiritual consultancy can be
performed were investigated. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;"> </p> <p> </p> <span style="text-align:justify;"> <b>Summary: </b> It is a very natural case that an individual takes support from
religion and spirituality in solution of the problems of life. In coping with
the problems, everybody may not always manage on their own to benefit from
religion as a supplementary aid and to reveal the potential of spirituality
within themselves. In this regard, individuals may need professional
assistance. </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">The purpose of the current study is to analyse the qualifications of
spiritual advisors theoretically, whether there is any need for spiritual
counselling in hospital and its scope, and by whom, to whom, and how it can be
applied by starting from what spiritual counselling is. </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;">In the Western literature, spiritual counselling and guidance is used
either together as “pastoral care and
counselling” or separately as “pastoral
care” and “pastoral counselling”
The title “Spiritual counselling and
guidance” has been frequently encountered in recent years in Turkey. As a
discipline combining theology and human sciences, spiritual counselling and
guidance interconnects the theological approaches and approaches of psychology
of religion. Assisting the maturation of an individual in any sense together
with healing, guidance, reconciliation, supporting and developing the
individuals having problems are among the aims of the field. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">Since spiritual counselling is a field requiring specialization, the
qualifications of spiritual advisors is a vital issue. It is apparent that
clinical psychology and similar educations are necessary when it is considered
that a specialist of spiritual counselling and guidance also provides
psychological assistance. In various countries, it is seen that there are
courses of clinical psychology and similar ones in the programs prepared for
educating specialists under the name of "pastoral counselling".
Together with the knowledge level about the religion and spirituality, the
knowledge and experience level of psychological guidance are also important for
the individuals who will perform spiritual counselling. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;"> <span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">When the world
literature has been analysed, it is observed that the most widespread services
in this field are the spiritual and psychological ones. Spirituality enables a
patient to heal in health services; if this is not possible, it maintains them
to acknowledge this situation, get on with his current condition, or continue
his attachment to life. For this reason, “spiritual support” in the hospitals
is accepted as a part of an integrated approach in health, and it takes a part
in the Article 38 of the patient’s rights legislation. The medical science also
accepts that it is necessary to assist the patients’ morale during their
treatments for helping them heal physically and psychologically. As a result of
this need being realized in Turkey, a protocol was signed between the Ministry
of Health and Directorate of Religious Affairs in recent years. However, this
service provided in the pilot hospitals has not become systematized yet. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">In the cases of existential crisis and deep-scaled desperation, an
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