End of Life Care | Spiritual care | Spiritual care and models of spiritual intervention

Spiritual care and models of spiritual intervention
Session overview
Description
This session will enable the participant to understand the different models that can be used for spiritual interventions and how using them can enhance and/or improve the person's care.

This session was reviewed by Rebecca Whiting and Sarah Hanrott and last updated in May 2023.

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• identify different models of spiritual intervention
• describe the use of different types of model
• offer some forms of spiritual intervention
• recognise the role of chaplains and other providers of spiritual care
• appreciate how to work alongside specialist spiritual care providers such as chaplains

Before commencing this session you should complete:

• Assessment of spiritual wellbeing (215-0207)
• "Why me?": discussing spiritual distress (215-0329)
• Understanding and assessing spiritual need and spiritual distress (215-0802)

Spirituality is the dynamic dimension of human life that relates to the way persons (individual and community) experience, express and/or seek meaning, purpose and transcendence, and the way they connect to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, to the significant and/or the sacred [1](read details regarding the reference).

It can be said that every illness has a spiritual dimension and, at some level, every dying person is confronted by questions of meaning, existence and belief when they come into end-of-life care.

It is imperative that those caring for them know how to identify spiritual issues; understand how they may impact on clinical care; recognise when and how to refer appropriately to a religious professional or spiritual care advisor; but also have the skills to offer spiritual care as far as they are personally comfortable.

This session will help to empower you with knowledge and skills to provide truly holistic person-centred care.