Spiritual pain: origins, nature and management

Burton, Rod

doi:10.1080/13520806.2004.11758977

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“…Yet both the spiritual guidance and pastoral care are related to the same goal. Coping with spiritual pain, the focus is on restoring the interpersonal relationships, developing the relation with God in the Spirit, listening, sagacity, and spiritual growth (Burton, 2004 , p. 3).…”

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Search for Spiritual Assistance in Religious Organizations: What Are the Motives of Persons Who Have Experienced Destructive Relationships at Work?

Vveinhardt

Deikus

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Religious assistance is an effective tool in helping the victims of violence, but so far, it has not been investigated that what promotes the persons aggrieved in the workplace to seek such assistance. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the motives of persons who have experienced destructive relationships, which inspire the search for spiritual assistance in religious organizations, seeking to develop the provision of such service. After the analysis of the scientific literature, a questionnaire “Motives of Persons Aggrieved at Work for Seeking Spiritual Assistance (MP-SSA-40)” was developed and validated. In this study, a survey was conducted on 463 persons working in Lithuanian organizations using the questionnaire survey method. The correlation and regression analyses were performed. The study has shown that the religiosity of the victim is not the only condition for seeking spiritual assistance. Significant factors are the congruence of values borne by the person and the religious organization, the motives arising from the relation with the person providing assistance, and the motives determined by circumstances that create an important contextual background. The established trends show that by solving work-related problems and problems of interpersonal relationships of assistance providers, obstacles hindering the implementation of intrinsic motives of the victim to apply for spiritual assistance to the religious organization, providing it can be removed. The value of the article is demonstrated by the fact that it fills the existing gaps of knowledge about the motives of victims of destructive relationships at work, seeking religious spiritual assistance. In addition, a new and reliable instrument to measure such motives is proposed.

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Search for Spiritual Assistance in Religious Organizations: What Are the Motives of Persons Who Have Experienced Destructive Relationships at Work?

Vveinhardt

Deikus

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Professional spiritual counsellors and assistants who use knowledge and methods of the psychology science in their activities should be attributed to the first group (Gubi, 2011;Hagmaier, 1963;Turner, 2017). According to Burton (2004), helping to overcome spiritual pain, the focus is on restoration of interpersonal relationships, the development of the relationship with God in the Spirit, listening, sagacity, and spiritual growth. Clinebell (1998), in turn, distinguishes two levels in the assistance, namely, helping people solve arisen problems or crises and then encouraging them to analyse fundamental value-related and spiritual problems that make their current problems painful to them.…”

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Workplace violence: Gender and age factors in the search for religious spiritual assistance

Vveinhardt¹,

Deikus²,

Jezerskė³

2021

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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Although there is ample literature on violence in the workplace, the opportunities for religious organizations to participate in providing assistance to victims remain little investigated. Therefore, in this article, we analyse the circumstances that promote the search for religious spiritual assistance and how this corresponds to the expectations of victims of violence in the workplace. Based on the results of the empirical study, we demonstrate that despite secularization trends, a sufficient value-based foundation still remains, which makes assistance provided by religious organizations potentially acceptable to victims. Contrary to what could have been expected, men reported being victims of violence more often, and the differences between individual age groups were statistically insignificant. The age variable was important only for obtaining information on this type of assistance. Women, meanwhile, emphasized the importance of religious values more than men did, but at the same time, they also showed greater sensitivity to the contextual circumstances on which the decision to seek religious assistance depended. This article presents only part of the results of a broader scientific study, one that is exclusively related to victims' gender and age.

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“…This may relate directly to their personal faith or religious context or it may arise from a broader search for meaning. At its sharpest it manifests itself in spiritual ‘pain’ (Burton 2004) which secular professionals seem as ready to identify as religious professionals (Lloyd 1997). In this fluid and pluralist religious and cultural context, a better understanding of transcultural issues and meanings may provide the clue to a conceptual framework, which both accommodates this substantial range of perspectives and guides the practitioner in her/his response.…”

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Death the great leveller? Towards a transcultural spirituality of dying and bereavement

Holloway

2006

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Spiritual pain: origins, nature and management

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Search for Spiritual Assistance in Religious Organizations: What Are the Motives of Persons Who Have Experienced Destructive Relationships at Work?

Search for Spiritual Assistance in Religious Organizations: What Are the Motives of Persons Who Have Experienced Destructive Relationships at Work?

Workplace violence: Gender and age factors in the search for religious spiritual assistance

Death the great leveller? Towards a transcultural spirituality of dying and bereavement

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