A social work contribution in end-of-life care: incorporating critical spirituality.

IF 2.7 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Palliative Care and Social Practice Pub Date : 2024-09-30 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1177/26323524241282683
Fiona Gardner
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This article outlines how a framework for critical spirituality incorporated into a social work perspective, can contribute to work in end-of-life care. This is based on my experience of working in interdisciplinary teams, including pastoral care workers or chaplains, nurses, doctors, a range of carers and other allied health professionals. Traditionally, social workers have focused on the holistic well-being of the dying person and their families but tended not to actively include the spiritual. However, there is increased recognition in social work of the value of integrating critical spirituality: understanding the person's own sense of meaning and the social assumptions that might influence how this can be expressed. This might mean working with individuals and families on understanding how societal expectations of the dying process are undermining the person's desire to die in a particular way. To do this, workers must themselves recognise their own internalised societal assumptions and be willing to challenge these. The article explores the potential value of how such a social work approach can integrate critical, postmodern, green and relational theories as well as indigenous worldviews with key qualities of practice such as humility, deep listening and waiting, and the ability to be critically reflective. Key ideas are used to help focus practice and the inclusion of critical spirituality. These include (1) exploring the influence of the person's history and social context; (2) the value of particular relationships and networks, including community and environmental connections and activities and processes that are an intrinsic aspect of the person's well-being; (3) challenging workers to be critically and reflectively aware of their own assumptions and values to ensure the dying person can truly express their preferences related to death and dying. Examples from my experience are used to illuminate how such perspectives can be actively included in practice across professional boundaries to shift perceptions of 'how things are done here' to what can be more life enhancing for those in palliative care.

社会工作在临终关怀中的贡献:融入批判性灵性。
本文概述了将批判性灵性的框架纳入社会工作的视角,如何有助于临终关怀工作。这基于我在跨学科团队中的工作经验,团队成员包括牧师、护士、医生、一系列照护者和其他专职医疗人员。传统上,社会工作者一直关注临终者及其家人的整体福祉,但往往不会积极地将灵性纳入其中。然而,社会工作中越来越多的人认识到整合批判性灵性的价值:理解临终者自身的意义感以及可能影响其表达方式的社会假设。这可能意味着要与个人和家庭合作,了解社会对死亡过程的期望是如何破坏人们以特定方式死亡的愿望的。要做到这一点,工作者本身必须认识到自己内化的社会假设,并愿意挑战这些假设。文章探讨了这种社会工作方法的潜在价值,即如何将批判性、后现代、绿色和关系理论以及本土世界观与谦逊、深度倾听和等待等关键实践品质以及批判性反思能力相结合。主要观点用于帮助突出实践重点和批判性精神的融入。这些观点包括:(1)探索临终者的历史和社会背景的影响;(2)特定关系和网络的价值,包括社区和环境的联系,以及作为临终者福祉内在方面的活动和过程;(3)挑战工作者以批判和反思的方式意识到他们自己的假设和价值观,以确保临终者能够真正表达他们对死亡和临终的偏好。我将以自己的经验为例,说明如何跨越专业界限,在实践中积极采纳这些观点,以转变 "这里是如何做事的 "的观念,从而使姑息关怀中的人获得更多的生命提升。
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Palliative Care and Social Practice
Palliative Care and Social Practice Nursing-Advanced and Specialized Nursing
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