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Using the spiritual needs questionnaire has a moral dimension. In this contribution we reflect on this dimension from the perspective of the ethics of care. Because care is both an attitude and a practice in the use of the spiritual needs questionnaire four phases of caring can be distinguished with four qualities or ethical elements: caring about, caring for, caregiving and care receiving. Parallel to these phases using the spiritual care questionnaire requires a caring attitude that is characterized by attentiveness, responsibility, competency and responsiveness.
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Leget, C. (2021). Using the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire: A Perspective from the Ethics of Care. In: Büssing, A. (eds) Spiritual Needs in Research and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70139-0_4
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