Free Communications
The Free Communication Sessions take place on Friday, 05.06.2026, 16:30 to 18:00
Session 1 – Spiritual Care in Clinical Practice: Interactions, Interventions, and Models
Chair: Ruth Mächler
| Anca-Cristina Sterie | When patients speak of death: Interactional practices in hospital spiritual care |
| Helga Teixeira Martins | CPR of Spiritual Care in Critically Ill Patients: A Quick Guideline |
| Ruth Mächler | Psychodrama in Palliative Care |
| X.J.S. (Sujin) Rosie | Five types of spiritual care: A qualitative study with nurses, social workers, and volunteers |
Session 2 – Educating for Spiritual Care: Competencies, Training, and Professional Development
Chair: Tamara Suquet
| Tamara Suquet | Predictors of Spiritual Care Competence: the role of experiential and personal variables in nursing students |
| Suk-Sun Kim | Church-Based Lay Health Partner Education Program for Holistic Eldercare: A feasibility study |
| Reinhard Grabenweger | Mapping Digital Spiritual Care Training Resources: A Scoping Review on Availability, Usability, and Commercialization |
| Mary Gannon Kaufmann | Elevating Practice: The Missing Link in Training Nurses and Allied Health Professionals in Spiritual Care |
| Patricia Carlisle | Innovating Spiritual and Religious Care in Health and Social Work in post conflict society |
Session 3 – Studying Spirituality: Measurement, Evaluation, and Innovation
Chair: Paul Bogacs
| Paul Bogacs | Faith and its Correlates - A Structural Equation Modelling Approach to the Study of Faith and Emotional Well-Being |
| Fabian Winiger | Acceptability of Digital Spiritual Care: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study in Switzerland |
| Joanne Dekker | Implementation and evaluation SPIRIT-CBT in mental health care: clients and caregivers’ experiences |
| Zsuzsanna Szabó-Jáki | Changes in psychological functioning and spirituality: an outcome study of pastoral counselling in Hungary |
Session 4 – Spirituality and Mental Health: Struggles, Vulnerability, and Meaning
Chair: Thomas Hayley
| Feder Shankov | Religious Struggles and Mental Health in Russian Orthodox Women: Network Structure and Longitudinal Dynamics During Great Lent |
| Thomas Hayley | Two Journeys Intertwined: Eating Disorders and Christian Religion/Spirituality |
| Ursula Wüthrich-Grossenbacher | Are religious and spiritual struggles a hidden dimension of depression? |
| Urška Mali Kovačič | A Phenomenological Perspective on the Role of Personal Religiosity in the Development of the Suicidal Process |
| Carlotta Reinhardt | Flexible Meaning-Making as a Protective Factor for Moral Injury in High-Risk Occupations |
Session 5 – Resilience, Coping, and Lived Spiritual Experience
Chair: Sema Yilmaz
| Fatumetul Zehra Guldas | Psychophysiological Effects of Verbal and Auditory Religious Stimuli: An Experimental Investigation of Quranic Recitation on Electrodermal Activity |
| Gina Abdala | Religiosity and Resilience Among University Students Aged 18 to 34 in São Paulo, Brazil |
| Bettina Wichers | Similarities Between Dementia and Spiritual Awakening: The Phenomenon of the Dissolution of the Self |
| Klaus Blaser | A new spiritual therapeutic approach through the physical representation of the psychological inner world, its demarcation from the outside and the inclusion of the vertical dimension. |
| Sema Yilmaz | A Heart-Centered Approach to Spiritual Well-Being: Integrating Al-Muhasibi’s Insights into Holistic Healthcare |