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Social Determinants of Providing Spiritual Health Services in Iran: Based on the Sound Heart Theory
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Minoo Asadzandi *  |
| Spiritual Health Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , mazandi498@gmail.com |
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Abstract: (41 Views) |
Introduction: Providing spiritual health services, like other specialized clinical practices, requires a specific body of professional knowledge, scientific theories and principles of ethics. Due to the influence of cultural contexts in explaining the concept of spiritual health and spiritual distress, the World Health Organization has assigned to each country the design and validation of the community-oriented theory of providing spiritual health services.
Covered areas: Although ethical principles have been proposed in the world to provide health services, but it is necessary for counselors and spiritual caregivers, in addition to these principles, to explain specific ethical guidelines and policy summaries appropriate to the cultural-religious contexts of each country with regard to the social determinants affecting the provision of spiritual health services in the same country.
Expert opinion: The theory of Sound Heart in spiritual health, which was designed and validated in Iran and in the paradigm of Islam, was able to create a new discourse at the international level and received a certificate of approval from the "Council of Support for Chairs of Theorizing, Criticism and Scientific Debate" of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution of Iran. Asadzandi, the theoretician of the Sound Heart Model, recommends the ethical considerations of providing spiritual health services in the spectrum of health and disease, throughout life and at all levels of prevention based on the theory of spiritual personality and spiritual pathology. Also, based on the future research of spiritual health services in Iran, she considers it necessary to pay attention to the paradigmatic difference between Islam, Catholic Christianity and Judaism by Iranian policy makers and health system employees in order to prevent research, educational and clinical harms. In "preliminary prevention" to prevent the occurrence of spiritual risk factors, it is necessary to know the social determinants of spiritual health of the society in addition to measuring the correlation between these determinants with the tendency towards extra-religious and secular spirituality. She suggests that policies should be made to correct social determinants that have negative effects on people's spiritual health. She considers spiritual distress caused by reluctance and coercion in spiritual training, misinterpretation of Quranic verses, wrong behavior of social models, mistakes of social customs, economic-social-cultural problems as social determinants of spiritual health of society members. And she suggests the implementation of "educational-support measures" by health system employees to empower families for spiritual self-care. The theorist introduces spiritual health care as a specialized team work, requiring formal education based on theory, which should be provided by expert and decent mentors with spiritual competence after obtaining a valid license. |
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| Keywords: Professional Ethics, Prevention, Health Services, Health, Spirituality |
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Type of Study: Commentary |
Subject:
Spiritual Health
Received: 2024/06/22 | Accepted: 2024/12/1 | Published: 2024/12/20
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