Spirituality and health: A narrativepastoral approach
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Spirituality and health: A narrativepastoral approach | |
| Creator | Truter, C.J. Kotzé, D.J. | |
| Description | Health is much more than the absence of illness; it is rather a “high level wellness” and a life with “meaningful life-possibilities”. This article indicates how meaningful life-possibilities and a high level of wellness can be socially constructed within a process of narrativepastoral therapy for a patient who is chronically ill and therefore cannot be cured. Pastoral care as a spiritual and religious act can play an important role in giving sense and meaning to people’s lives, and can play a preventive role in living with illness. This article furthermore shows how patients’ stories of illness can be centralised by means of narrative therapy and how a pastoral and ethical attitude of love and respect can create a climate conducive to better health and well being. We share how patients’ richer descriptions of their illness can produce a spiritual climate which can contribute to their better health. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2005-10-12 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v61i3.460 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 61, No 3 (2005); 973-984 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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