Vicissitudes and Similarities in the Practices of Hospital Psychologists and Chaplains with people in situations of loss by death / Vicissitudes e Semelhanças nas Práticas de Capelães e Psicólogos hospitalares junto às pessoas em situações de perda por morte

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The central theme of this thesis addresses the practices of hospital psychologists and chaplains in loss by death situations. The thesis purpose is to understand the processes of receiving, caring for and advising carried out by psychologists and chaplains in situations of death; and investigating the similarities and differences between these professionals in their methods of receiving, caring for, and advising in situations of loss by death. The research subjects included 1 Protestant Chaplain, 1 Chaplain Priest of St. Camillo, and 2 psychologists, all of whom work with pastoral care and psychological assistance in hospitals. The qualitative method of investigation used in this research is the Grounded Theory (PIRES 2001) whose data categorization and interpretation considers all verbal content, respecting each word spoken by the subject. The chaplain was interviewed in her office at the university where she works and the other subjects were interviewed in the hospital itself, on which occasion we asked them to speak about their working methods in the hospital setting. Through the results obtained it was possible to verify that there still today is difficulty in dealing with the term death and in defining the concept of death, both in the religious and psychological realm. There is a very strong culture, which surrounds human relations and makes our understanding more difficult, impeding us from mentioning the word death. It was possible to identify divergences in the daily practices of both chaplains and psychologists with respect to the Methods and Techniques, as these become confused at moment of receiving, advising, and giving support to persons that are confronting loss by death. Both chaplains and psychologists said that spirituality is a resource used to confront this loss by death and the suggestions and feelings of those interviewed in relation to their practices was that the professionals need space of expression in order for the their work to become fully integrated, need to provide support to the caregivers, and need to demystify the chaplains work and the need for the work of the psychologists to be extended to hospital employees. We concluded that through the research carried out there is confusion in the roles or functions between the Chaplain and Psychologist. This confusion puts into question the very professional, role, or techniques of intervention. This suggests that there is a need in the education of these professionals for clarification of information regarding their role when faced with loss by death.

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role of the psychologist (hospitals) psicologia morte atuação do psicólogo (hospitais) taboo loss death perda tabu

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