The Effect of Spiritual Therapeutic Assessment in Terminal Ill Diagnosis: Focus on Meaning and Spirituality

Abstract

There is no doubt that the modern scientific medicine helps in sustaining human life, but tends to forget terminal ill experiences unlike other illness is accompanied by several mental and psychological factors. The core criteria to deliver quality of life in terminal illness are to assess its bi-products like mental disharmony, depression, and the psychological issues. The spiritual psychotherapy is a modern humanistic approach that has holistic view on human illness in health and medical sciences. It is an effective coping mechanism to cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and suffering that are frequently experienced by terminally ill patients to delivered quality of life and meaning making policy in the clinical settings. Palliative end-of-life care on the other hand main objective is to improve quality of life of the terminal patients and the family that includes the physical, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing assessments. Considering the helplessness conditions of the terminal patients the spiritual psychotherapy is the urgent needs as it viewed human illness as the complex interplay between the biopsychosocial-spiritual factors. Especially when the patient is in the context of healing impossibility, spirituality plays an important role in meeting the needs of the dying individual’s before the inevitable death strikes. Objective/Purpose The purpose of this analytical review is to ponder on the role of spirituality in meaning-making and a source of hope mainly when cure is not possible in the terminal experiences. It is also to find out how spirituality serves as a coping mechanism in the face of inevitable death and makes life more meaningful to the dying individuals. Method The propose study will use philosophical inquiry on the existing literatures.