Spiritual Assess/Hlth Care Prac I (GRSP 652)

Term: 2010-2011 Fall Term

Faculty

Description

This course will explore current research on methodologies of spiritual assessment as an invitation to compassion toward the whole person, especially implications for ways to address spiritual concerns in healthcare settings. Students are invited to formulate proposals for projects related to healing and spiritual care to be carried out during the second part of the GRSP/healthcare practicum, GRSP 690. Projects focus ways to attend to the diversity of patients? and caregivers? spiritual and religious beliefs, values, and conflicts in a respectful, non-judgmental, and non-imposing fashion appropriate to students? roles in particular contexts.