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The Contribution of Chaplaincy to Primary and Community Care:A Semi-Structured Interview Study With Clients
No full textINTRODUCTION: A broad range of studies have associated spirituality with health outcomes. However, the integration of spiritual care in primary and community care has substantially lagged behind. Chaplains, as specialist spiritual caregivers, are increasingly employed in primary and community care to fill the gap. To investigate the implementation of chaplains in these settings from the perspective of clients, this study focused on the following research question: what are primary and community care clients' reasons to seek chaplaincy care, their ideas of care goals, and what outcomes of care do they report?METHODS: 24 Dutch chaplaincy clients were interviewed.RESULTS: Clients sought support from a chaplain for existential concerns, or an existential struggle encompassing several areas of life. They described goals and outcomes of care in 3 domains: (1) the relationship with the chaplain, which included being seen, heard and acknowledged; (2) meaning-making, where they gained insight into and/or processed life-events, and connected more with themselves, others and/or the sacred; and (3) well-being, which included feeling better and finding peace.CONCLUSIONS: This study provides novel insights into clients perspective on chaplains' contributions in primary and community care. Their experiences are key to further shaping the implementation of chaplaincy in these settings.</p
De zeven praktijken: ongemak in de boardroom
Get PDFDit eerste deel introduceert het project Verdiepte Governance en beschrijft hoe ongemak in de boardroom ontstaat door de spanning tussen persoonlijke waarden en institutionele verwachtingen. Via participatief actieonderzoek met commissarissen en bestuurders worden zeven ‘good practices’ ontwikkeld die als hefboom fungeren voor transitie. Deze praktijken zijn meer dan instrumenten: het zijn praxis-vormen die persoonlijke en collectieve transformatie stimuleren en een nieuwe cultuur in de boardroom mogelijk make
"I Chose to Put my Ego in the Closet for a while, but Struggled to Find It Again”:Backstage Reflections on Participatory Action Research and Resilience
No full text‘Unwelcome truths’ are central to the empowerment and transformation aims of Participatory Action Research (PAR). They confront dominant narratives, challenge power relations, and reveal hidden structures of influence. At the same time, creating communicative spaces in which unwelcome truths can surface is rarely straightforward. Researchers play a key role in creating these spaces and face several challenges. These include ethical responsibilities, power imbalances, emotional and psychological barriers, and external pressures such as time limits and institutional demands. Researchers’ responses to these challenges are shaped by their methodological choices and positionality. These two factors directly influence how communicative spaces are created and sustained. Nevertheless, reflexive accounts of researchers’ methodological choices and positionality in PAR remain scarce in the literature. This scarcity limits accountability, transparency, and learning, which are principles integral to PAR. In this article we therefore present a behind-the-scenes account of a Dutch PAR project on resilience and experiences of loss. We draw on Goffman’s frontstage/backstage metaphor to examine the tension between public accounts of PAR and unpublished realities that are often personal, complex, and morally challenging. On the frontstage, we analyse how communicative spaces were created in meetings with co-researchers and the difficulties this process entailed. Backstage, we examine methodological challenges and the complex positionality of researchers. We explore these issues in greater depth using the validity claims from Habermas’s theory of communicative action. This provides a useful lens for analysing how unifying factors can emerge in communicative spaces despite the challenges faced. Finally, we conclude by considering the value of PAR for resilience research and how insights from this project may inform future studies
Tussen ik en wij:De spanning tussen individu en gemeenschap in de zorg voor mensen met een verstandelijke beperking
No full textDoor de neiging om radicaal afstand te nemen van eerdere ideeën over goede zorg, stevenen we af op een samenleving waarin we opnieuw afhankelijk worden van liefdadigheid en zorg binnen de eigen gemeenschap. Volgens Femmianne Bredewold moeten we de spanning tussen individu en gemeenschap niet langer proberen op te heffen
Dangerous liaisons:Social AI and the problem with the relational turn to moral status
No full textThe question what moral status to ascribe to artificially intelligent entities, such as social robots, is at the forefront of academic debate. The related question as to how social AI affects the moral status we can ascribe to ourselves as human beings, by contrast, has received far less attention. Philosophers who discuss this issue propose a relational turn: human moral status should not be understood to be based on uniquely or typically human traits or capacities but derives from interpersonal interactions and practices through which people come to respect and morally value others. The aim of this article is to set out how developments in the field of social AI pose a problem not only to traits-based accounts of (human) moral status, but also to the relational approach. Our ways of morally relating to others are often mistaken and social AI heightens this risk, as it is purposefully designed to evoke moral responses in humans by displaying traits and mirroring forms of interaction that we would ascribe moral relevance in relations with fellow humans or (non-human) animals. If we cannot take the moral appearance of interactions with social AI at face value, we need further normative grounds to distinguish relations in which moral status is properly ascribed from those where it is not