Free Communication
Friday, May 18, 16:00-17:30 - four parts in parallel
Session 1: The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Hospice Work and End of Life Care
- Spiritual Care at the End of Life: Meaning and Practice (Jacqueline Watts)
- Making Life Rather than Making Sense: Integration of Spirituality into the Daily Practice in a Hospice (Wai Leng Tong)
- Perspectives on Religion and Spirituality in Hospice Palliative Care (Harold Coward)
Session 2: Theorizing the Field
- Religiosity, Religiousness and Spirituality from a Cognitive Religious Science Perspective (Peter Kaiser)
Session 3: Comparing and Approaching different Cultural Traditions
- Spirituality and Religiousness as a Friend in Need? German-Chilean Intra- and Intercultural Comparisions in Depressive Symptomatology (Christina Hunger)
- Positive Psychology and the Provision of Religiously-sensitive Mental Health Support Services to Cultural Minoritiy Groups in the UK (Kate Miriam Loewenthal)
- Spiritual Definitions from New Zealand: A Map of the Terrain (Richard Egan)
Session 4: Spirituality and Religion in diffrent Populations and Institutions
- Religious Struggle in Swiss Patients visited by Chaplains: Prevalence and Correlates (Urs Winter-Pfaendler)
- Christianity and Quality Indicators: A Hospital Perspective (Jürgen Stausberg)
- Implicit and Explicit Self-Regulation and Spirituality: A Comparative Study with Students and Elder Persons (Barbara Hanfstingl)
- Spirituality in Children and their Parents predicts positive Mental Health (Andrew J. P. Francis)