Spiritual care for people with intellectual and developmental disability: An exploratory study
Background: A faith-based (pseudonym, Adam's House - AH) and a non-faith-based care service (pseudonym, Greenleaves - GL) were explored to find out if and how spiritual support was provided for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). Method: Six months were spent volunte...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of intellectual & developmental disability 2019-04, Vol.44 (2), p.150-160 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background: A faith-based (pseudonym, Adam's House - AH) and a non-faith-based care service (pseudonym, Greenleaves - GL) were explored to find out if and how spiritual support was provided for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs).
Method: Six months were spent volunteering within each service and a mixed-methods approach was utilised including applied and ethnographic methods to explore and describe if and how spirituality was embedded within the two services.
Results: Themes found included community of value; homely functional care; and barriers to spiritual care. GL staff tended to provide what we termed "religious spiritual care" while AH staff administered both "religious" and "non-religious" spiritual-based support. This difference may be related to the type of training found only at AH which included spiritual dimensions.
Conclusion: Services could benefit from acknowledging the importance and significance of spiritual care training and education for effective and varied spiritual care for people with IDD who desire such support. |
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ISSN: | 1366-8250 1469-9532 |
DOI: | 10.3109/13668250.2017.1350834 |