Approximately 100 people from ten different countries attended the conference ‘Spiritual Care in Palliative Care: Recent European research and future developments’, hosted by the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, Cicely Saunders International and King’s College London, on 24 November 2014.
Reporting on the event, Revd Dr Andrew Goodhead writes: “The day covered a wide range of themes, from the perspective of a carer whose son received palliative care to a host of research presentations by researchers and practitioners from across Europe.
“Topics included establishing research priorities in spiritual care, cultural and spiritual needs, spiritual care in nursing home settings, the development and evaluation of training programmes, assessment and history taking, and international collaboration in research.”
“This excellent conference was an opportunity to be challenged in thinking and practice and an important contribution towards the ongoing development of spiritual care research internationally,” he adds.
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