Counseling Services
Facilitating informed decision on benefit of spiritual
health therefore utilizing spiritual force to restore/promote health:
Counseling on
What is
health?
Physical
force
Mental
force
Spiritual
force
How
the forces can promote/restore health
Importance
of wholistic integrative approach
What
health promotion/restoration services MDH is offering
Do
you want to avail of the spiritual health services of MDH?
What
does it entail, in terms of effort, time, and cost?
Facilitating informed decision what religion to acquire
Briefing on different
types of religion by an unbiased facilitator
Differences
and similarities
God
Obligations
Rituals
Facilitating informed decision on strategies to acquire
spiritual forces to restore/promote health:
1.
Generic method
2.
Specific religion-based method
Generic Method:
Counseling on
Meaning
of life
Meaning
of illness
How
to cope with illness with emphasis on spiritual force
Spiritual Prescription
Meditation
– topic, schedule, how long, assisted or not
Listening
to spiritual advisers/peers – topic, schedule, how long
Questioning
spiritual advisers/peers – topic, schedule, how long
Visitation
by spiritual advisers/peers – schedule, how long, activities
Writing/diary
– what, how long, when
Reading
– what (bible or nonbible materials), frequency, when
Others
Specific Religion-based Method:
Precepts /rituals of chosen
religion
Examples
of Catholic-based method:
Mass
Communion
Confession
Rosary
Bible
reading
Pray
over
Prayer
healing sessions
Last
sacrament
Others