title: Facilitating the provision of quality spiritual care in palliative care.
abstract: In 1948, Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modem hospice movement, established a core principle of palliative care, Total Pain, which is defined as physical, spiritual, psychological, and social suffering. In 2009, a consensus panel (Puchalski, Ferrell, Virani, Otis-Green, Baird, Bull, et al., 2009) was convened to address the important issue of integrating spirituality in palliative care, which led to renewed efforts to focus on spiritual care as a critical component of quality palliative care. This project is a combination of advocacy for the importance of spiritual care, training chaplains, seminarians, community clergy, and healthcare professionals in palliative care, and creating a spiritual care curriculum which can be self-taught or taught to members of transdisciplinary teams.
authors: Committee on Ethics of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2868, USA. bodekmsw@verizon.net
authors: Hillel
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authors: Bodek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002977:Clergy / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000193:education*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011788:Quality of Life; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education