Spirituality and palliative care: a model of needs.
This paper provides a theoretical model of spiritual needs in palliative care based on a review of the palliative care literature. Three sources of transcendence, the building blocks of spiritual meaning, are identified: the situational, the moral and biographical, and the religious. After areas of transcendence are described and explained, implications for future theory, research and practice are identified.
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Palliative Care Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
D001290:Attitude; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology