Week 5 Christian Ho

Christian Ho
Week 5

Spiritual Treatment

Regarding this weeks reading on applying a spiritual approach to treating patients and in a sense empathize with them to better understand the struggle they are dealing with. As it mentions in the article as the guidelines for the chaplain is to be mindful with the patient as to make sure not make things uncomfortable for the patient and allow the patient to share painful stories and pay extra attention to all actions the patients exhibits. Similar to a therapist and his/her patients, the relationship here appears more as actual relationships between the two individuals as the patients becomes more comfortable with sharing his/her ideas with the chaplain while the chaplain tries to get the patient out of their troubling times by offering suggestions and slowly try to get the patient out of the troubling times. This type of treatment has gone to show improve the lives of individuals as they better discover their own personal selves and understand their place in this world. To me it seems to be another form of meditation and just having another medium there to help channel your thoughts, its like talking to another friend about your problems.