Week 5- Diane Tran

According to the article "You are here: locating 'spirituality' on the map of the current world" by Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan emphasizes on the medicine world diving into the spiritual realm. This article talks about how spirituality, religion, and medicine can intertwine to identify how the aspect of spiritualism such as spirit healers be a part of the health-care system. In my opinion, I find it interesting and perplexed on how we could incorporate spiritualism into our modern-day medicine such as practitioners and hospitals. Ramakrishnan emphasizes, "The physician-initiated chaplaincy program was started in 1925 to provide clinical education to theological students to prepare them as spiritual care specialists in hospitals more recently, growing number of nurses and physicians are joining clinical pastoral education (CPE) to obtain spiritual care skills. At the same time, a growing number of chaplains, equipped with scientific analytical skills, are contributing to empirical research publications on spiritual-care services at hospitals" (2). This is said that practitioners of medicine have started to incorporate the spiritual realm into our medicine today and it is growing by the day. Chaplain's spiritual care process will help patients find their emotional disturbances and connect with their own self to reach a state of peace. The model meets the patients of their own 'self' of suffering to find meaning and purpose as well as a religious cultural aspect. This psychiatry, behavioral medicine has me wondering how can we make sure that this follows through with each patient? Or how can the therapeutic outcomes be measured?

Works Cited:

“Spirituality & Medicine.” Mindful Beauty, www.mindfulbeauty.eu/spirituality--medicine.html.