Abstract
SpirituĂĄlnĂ dimenze ÄlovÄka vĂ˝znamnÄ ovlivĹuje kvalitu Ĺživota, o tom dnes nenĂ sporu. Teoreticky je dobĹe zpracovĂĄn koncept spirituĂĄlnÄ senzitivnĂ a spirituĂĄlnÄ orientovanĂŠ sociĂĄlnĂ prĂĄce. Za jakĂ˝ch podmĂnek jsou vĹĄak tyto koncepty ĹživotaschopnĂŠ v praxi? Nakolik vĂ˝znamnĂĄ je osobnĂ spiritualita sociĂĄlnĂho pracovnĂka v rozhovoru s klientem? SouÄĂĄstĂ textu je prezentace limitĹŻ a rizik, pro nÄĹž mnoho sociĂĄlnĂch pracovnĂkĹŻ v cĂrkevnĂch i jinĂ˝ch organizacĂch nenĂ a nemĹŻĹže bĂ˝t expertem na duchovnĂ potĹeby uĹživatele sluĹžby. Tato realita nepopĂrĂĄ vĂ˝znam spirituality v sociĂĄlnĂ prĂĄci, jakkoli nemusĂ bĂ˝t jasnÄ tĂŠmatizovĂĄn. V rĂĄmci pomĂĄhajĂcĂch profesĂ vĹĄak existuje nÄkolik moĹžnostĂ, jak se spiritualitÄ kvalifikovanÄ vÄnovat. SlepĂ˝m mĂstem a vĂ˝zvou ÄeskĂŠ praxe jsou pak duchovnĂ potĹeby klientĹŻ bez nĂĄboĹženskĂŠho vyznĂĄnĂ.
Highlights
At faculties of theology and in practice, theologians and ordained ministers cooperate with experts from other helping professions
In Czech practice the term used for insufficiently saturated spiritual need is spiritual poverty; Svatošová employs the concept of spiritual pain and places it in connection with a loss of meaning, a need for forgiveness, or a fear of the unknown or of being punished.[5]
Are social workers prepared for such a subtle topic with respect to their capacity, education, skills and personality setup? To what extent is the personal spirituality of the social worker professionally significant? Is it appropriate to bring it into conversations with clients? What if the client asks about the helper’s worldview directly? This paper aims to briefly specify the answers to the above questions, point out some of the dilemmas and present several incentives for the dialogue of theology with social work
Summary
At faculties of theology and in practice, theologians and ordained ministers cooperate with experts from other helping professions. These two disciplines have much in common, especially the view of the human being as a unity constituted of biological, psychological, social and spiritual aspects, whereby in social work these dimensions are perceived in the context of needs and commissions, depending on the various conceptions of social work.[1] Another point of interception of the two disciplines, especially of pastoral and social work, is the support given to a freely acting human person, i.e., a subject.[2] The space defined in this way places high demands on the helpers’ expertise and sensitivity, especially of those who are anchored in a particular confession It holds that without the necessary communication skills and interiorised limits one can do more harm than good. In the Czech situation, finding an educational space in which selected social workers would gain practical skills of dealing with spirituality is still an open question
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