What is it about?
Providing spiritual care is more than a matter of having the right skills and knowledge. It also requires a verifiable experience of one's own spirituality and the ability to discern another's spirituality.
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Why is it important?
With the proliferation of agencies that now certify chaplains and spiritual care practitioners, a standard is needed to adjudicate a person's qualifications. Improperly trained practitioners may inadvertently cause spiritual harm. This article aims to support a standard based on epistemology.
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This page is a summary of: The board-certified chaplain as member of the transdisciplinary team: An epistemological approach to spiritual care, Journal for the Study of Spirituality, July 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2019.1658262.
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