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Christian Psychology alive
4.1.3 Programs 5. Conclusion
Spirituality, spiritual and pastoral work, the
We provide the following programs: faith-based community and faith-based orga-
nizations can make a valuable contribution to
Hospi-Care (Touching lives) holistic people-centred healthcare in South Af-
rica. We are faced with a complex interpretive
• Spiritual and emotional support, care and task because, on the one hand, this must take
counselling to patients, their families and place within an African context and world view.
caregivers. On the other hand the modern healthcare envi-
• Employee assistance programs ronment will require that we must work within
• Trauma support and counselling a well-defined framework. We need to develop
• Hospi-Kids: care and support to sick, or- a framework which is theologically grounded,
phaned and vulnerable children, in parti- contextually relevant (for the South African
cular those infected or affected by HIV & healthcare environment), inclusive and plura-
AIDS in the family and/or living with a life- listic (making room for Western medicine and
threatening illness (e.g. cancer) African worldviews, culture and practices). Our
• Counselling centre: trauma counselling, be- approach should be empirically and methodo-
reavement support and professional health logically sound and consistent, as well as evi-
care related counselling services dence based (taking note of and developing best
practice policies and procedures for the South
Hospi-Help (Giving hope) African context). Key to this will be the creative
mobilization, use and management of available
• Physical and nutritional support and potential physical and human resources.
• Skills training and socio-economic develop-
ment programs for people living with HIV Having said this, we must constantly be remin-
and AIDS, chronic illness and disability ded that there are more to the human being and
• Community support and engagement his/or her existence than what can be resear-
• Volunteer recruitment, selection, training ched, described and evaluated. ‘Spirituality’ and
and mentoring ‘health’ will always have elements that will not
• Accredited training for volunteer and pro- comply with nomothetic knowledge systems.
fessional caregivers, companies, as well as Crisis, trauma, illness, loss, suffering and death
community and faith based leaders is part of our human condition and will con-
• Marketing, communication and resource tinue to challenge our conceptual frameworks
mobilization and quest to find meaning in the midst thereof.
• Radio pulpit
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