On the New Challenges of Pastoral and Spiritual Care in Hospitals and Nursing Homes in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic Cover Image

Haiglate ja hoolekandeasutuste hingehoidliku töö uutest väljakutsetest COVID-19 pandeemia raames
On the New Challenges of Pastoral and Spiritual Care in Hospitals and Nursing Homes in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Indrek Linnuste, Age Kristel Kartau
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Akadeemiline Teoloogia Selts

Summary/Abstract: COVID-19 pandemics created anxiety-loaded environments both forinflicted patients and for the staff of healthcare institutions. Hospitals were facing a crisis of unique severity and spreading capabilities.Spiritual care professionals – chaplains, pastoral counselors and others– were surveyed to better understand the new aspects, the lost elementsand creative solutions to the unseen challenges in their work. At thesummerdays of Estonian pastoral counselors on August, 27–28 2021the spiritual care providers were reflecting on their own experiencescomparing those to international chaplaincy research results in USA,Europe and Australia.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 2 (82)
  • Page Range: 57-70
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Estonian
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