Nurturing Children’s Spirituality: Relationship, Connection, and Expression
August 22 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Spirituality is often misunderstood in the pediatric palliative care context, due to the individualistic nature of how children and adolescents experience and express their spiritual life. The presenter will provide an overview of children’s spirituality in theory and practice, exploring how relationship, connection, and expression are central to the child’s unique spiritual experience. Strategies for partnering with interdisciplinary teammates to ensure the environment of care nurtures the spirit of the child will be shared.
Understand the theoretical foundation of children’s spirituality
Identify how spirituality can be experienced and expressed in children and adolescents with life-limiting illness, including existential limits
Name practical ways of nurturing spiritual expression for children and adolescents in the pediatric palliative care setting
