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Mental Health and Spirituality
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Planning for spiritual care
Long term goal: To minimize spiritual distress.
Objectives (patient will)
- Continue spiritual practices not detrimental to health.
- Express decreased feelings of guilt and anxiety.
- Express religious or spiritual satisfaction.
- State that conflict has been reduced or eliminated.
- Express comfort with their relationship with their god and with significant others.
- Rest comfortably.
- State acceptance of ethical/moral decisions.
- Display positive affect and behaviour.
- State that they feel at peace.
- Express positive meaning in their existence and in their present circumstances.
Interventions
- Establish environment that promotes free expression of feelings and concerns.
- Use therapeutic communication skills of reflection and active listening.
- Appropriate use of presence and touch.
- Promote patient’s spiritual beliefs.
- Promote or maintain patient’s relationship with their personal god.
- Assist patient to meet his or her own spiritual goals.
- Provide spiritual resources otherwise unavailable.
- Assist patient to fulfil religious obligations.
- Assist patient to use spiritual resources to meet the present situation.
- Assist patient to find meaning in their existence and in their present difficult situation.
- Assist patient to mend disrupted relationships.
- Promote patient’s sense of hope.
- Refer to appropriate resources for help.
- Advocate for the patient’s spiritual beliefs with the health team.
One aspect of ensuring mental health is the promotion of a positive attitude and the acceptance and support from family, friends, partner(s) and the community. Stigma and discrimination can have a negative impact on an individual's mental health.
