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. 2021 Apr;75(1_suppl):17-23.
doi: 10.1177/1542305020987991.

"The Most Effective Experience was a Flexible and Creative Attitude"-Reflections on Those Aspects of Spiritual Care that were Lost, Gained, or Deemed Ineffective during the Pandemic

Anne Vandenhoeck  1 , Cheryl Holmes  2 , Cate Michelle Desjardins  3 , Joost Verhoef  4
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"The Most Effective Experience was a Flexible and Creative Attitude"-Reflections on Those Aspects of Spiritual Care that were Lost, Gained, or Deemed Ineffective during the Pandemic

Anne Vandenhoeck et al. J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses data from three of the qualitative questions in the international COVID-19 survey: What was the most important aspect of spiritual care that was lost during the pandemic? What was new to you during this pandemic? What are the new ways of delivering spiritual care you have experienced? Of these new experiences, what do you think was the most effective?

Keywords: Chaplaincy during Covid-19 pandemic; lost ways of spiritual care; new ways of spiritual care.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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