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Healing the Hearts - Dr Frans J Cronjé
This lecture was given at the International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course in Toronto, Canada on 10 June 2012. It provides a framework for assessing spiritual needs in patients in an inoffensive way. It offers the perspective that spirituality is part of human physiology and represents an potential underutilized resource or an unresolved liability in the healing process. Dr Cronjé is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. For more information, contact Dr Cronjé at fransc@sun.ac.za. The central tenet is that spiritual needs can be assessed and addressed without prolonged training or prohibitive investments of time. They can be met without provoking offense, projecting judgment, precipitating guilt, promoting alienation, perpetuating superstition, propagating magical thinking or producing escapism. The spiritual dimension offers meaning comfort; greater partnering and compliance; restoration of relationships; and relief of suffering. Therefore, we cannot allow our own ignorance, prejudice or fear to prevent us from addressing the spiritual needs and realities of our patients. To do so is to deny their reality and human dignity. It limits access to essential resources in the healing process and therefore violates the very precepts of our profession. Frans J Cronjé, MBChB(UP), MSc 10 June 2012From:Frans J CronjeViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:02:34More inEducation

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