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Spiritual and Psychosocial Support—Accompanying others impacted by COVID-19

90 Minute Workshops ~ Sunday, August 21, 2022 – 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Workshop Level: Intermediate*
NACC Certification Competencies: ITP2, ITP1.1, ITP3, PPS2

Presenter

Rev. Richard W. Bauer MM, BCC, LCSW
Chaplain, The George Washington Institute on Spirituality and Health
Washington, DC

About this workshop

The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis. We have often heard that “crisis” can mean both danger, and opportunity. In the face of the continued pandemic, new variants and outbreaks, limited global vaccine availability and vaccine hesitancy, the pandemic can be an opportunity to be God’s presence of wholeness, healing, compassion, and justice. This workshop will explore the recent Vatican document from the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development – “Accompanying People in Psychological Distress in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Members of One Body Loved by One Love.”
As a result of this workshop, participants will:

1. Identify some of the unique challenges to spiritual well-being and mental health emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. List some of the key themes from Catholic Social Teaching and discuss a Catholic understanding of social responsibility and solidarity and apply these to a pandemic response of spiritual accompaniment.
3. Articulate the Catholic understandings of spiritual suffering and hope and how these concepts can assist a chaplaincy response to the pandemic.

Educational Materials

(recommended books, articles, or websites for participants to review prior to the workshop)
– None recommended by the workshop presenter(s)

Presentation Materials

(items to be brought to the workshop and/or presentation materials)

– none required

 

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