From Assumption to Assessment: Questioning the Hegemony of Religion in Spiritual Care
摘要
Chaplain Jeremy D. Sher focuses on case studies of spiritual care at a San Francisco hospital. Emotional support and counseling, small talk and chitchat, the use of humor, guided meditation, grief support, existential philosophy, and more all play into models of decolonial spiritual care that can benefit care seekers of any faith or none. Today, as the ranks of those unaffiliated with organized religion grow, and as patients and chaplains diversify to the point where the caregiver and careseeker may share little religiously, secular modes of spiritual care increase in their importance to spiritual care praxis. San Francisco is an especially diverse city in which nonreligious patients comprise a large plurality of its hospital populations. He briefly looks at decolonial spiritual assessment models, such as Spiritual AIM and the Mitchell-Anderson grief model, as well as a new model being worked on by the author to assess a care seeker’s sources of spiritual resilience.