Haiglate ja hoolekandeasutuste hingehoidliku töö uutest väljakutsetest COVID-19 pandeemia raames

COVID-19 pandemics created anxiety-loaded environments both forinflicted patients and for the staff of healthcare institutions. Hospitals were facing a crisis of unique severity and spreading capabilities.Spiritual care professionals – chaplains, pastoral counselors and others– were surveyed to better understand the new aspects, the lost elementsand creative solutions to the unseen challenges in their work. At thesummerdays of Estonian pastoral counselors on August, 27–28 2021the spiritual care providers were reflecting on their own experiencescomparing those to international chaplaincy research results in USA,Europe and Australia.