How Spiritual Support Counselors Help Hospice Patients
Spiritual support counselors are an integral part of the team of medical professionals who provide comfort, support, and dignity to patients and their families dealing with serious illness at the end of life.
Support from a spiritual and emotional perspective is a key part of the hospice care philosophy, which is intended to encompass care for the whole person. A Samaritan hospice chaplain can help:
Encourage meaningful life review
Explore spiritual concerns
Provide a safe space for doubt
Make sense out of life’s changes
Address anger and fears
Reconcile feelings of guilt, sorrow, remorse, and regret
Recover a sense of worth and dignity
Discover sources of hope
Reconnect you to people you value
Discuss the afterlife
Strengthen life and hope with prayer and meditation
Mediate religious differences within a family
Plan and lead funeral or memorial services
Establish or maintain contact with a faith community or clergy member
Consult on ethical dilemmas
Support in crisis situation or time of death
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Spiritual support counselors are an integral part of the team of medical professionals who provide comfort, support, and dignity to patients and their families dealing with serious illness at the end of life.