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Practicarea consilierii spirituale în comunitatea persoanelor vârstnice instituţionalizate Studiu aplicativ
Practicing the Spiritual Counseling in the Community of the Elderly Institutionalized Applicative study

Author(s): Nicu Gavriluţă, Ilarion Mâță
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: POLIROM & Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială
Keywords: social gerontology; social-medical center; intervention plan; spiritual counseling;multidisciplinary team;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a model of good practice implemented within the socio-medical center in Hârja, Bacau County, in the context of an acute need to ensure the psycho-social integration of institutionalized elderly people. This organizational approach could not be possible without the spiritual counseling found in the intervention plan implemented by the pluridisciplinary team consisting of a physician, social worker, psychologist and priest. Any institutionalization of the elderly involves an acute crisis of adaptability to the community's nocturnal way of life, the organization or institution offering a new life climate, another community, quite alien to the elderly with poly-pathologists, neurotic and worse than death increasing the quality of his life. Following a brief research, we have found that spiritual therapy has beneficial influences on personal attitude towards disease, death and the future, imparting to the beneficiaries a sense of normality and safety during the last stage of their life.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 97-109
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian