Sjukhusprästens stöd och vägledning till föräldrar med kroniskt svårt sjuka barn : En studie i religiös coping

Sammanfattning: Purpose: the main purpose was to identify in what way the clinical practice could support parents with chronically ill children. Clinical practice meaning therapist, hospital chaplain orparish priest. Questions: the main question was “in what way do hospital chaplains support parents with chronically ill children?”. This question was then divided into five sub questions. Theory: Pargament’s theory of religious coping from 1997 and 2000. The theory describes the religious coping process in 8 steps, 3 coping styles, 4 different coping mechanisms, 13 coping strategies and 5 main functions for religion. Conclusions: the diverse ways the hospital chaplain supported the parents are described as phenomenon or roles. The clinical practice could focus on four main areas. 1) actively search for parents that might benefit help from the hospital chaplains, as these parents often are overlooked by other support systems 2) support the parent in re-constructing her/his faith 3) support the parent in changing coping style 4) support the parent to reconciliation and transition to her/hisnew life with the child. Pargament’s theory was adjusted to a Swedish secular context and filledwith added content. I also presented a first attempt at bridging Pargament’s framework from year1997 and from year 2000.