Free Communications
The Free Communication Sessions took place on Friday, 05.06.2026, 16:30 to 18:00
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Session 1 – Spiritual Care in Clinical Practice: Interactions, Interventions, and Models
Chair: Ruth Mächler
| Melissa Juillet | 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
Session 4 – Spirituality and Mental Health: Struggles, Vulnerability, and Meaning
Chair: Thomas Hayley
Session 5 – Resilience, Coping, and Lived Spiritual Experience
Chair: Sema Yilmaz