Abstract Spiritual caregivers increasingly care for clients with other religious/spiritual (R/S) orientations than their own. To date, the ways in which spiritual caregivers deal with these differences have hardly been explored. Based on an analysis of audio records of 34 spiritual caregiver-patient interactions, this paper describes communication techniques used by spiritual caregivers to address existential themes in conversations with patients with various R/S orientations. The model presented describes these techniques regarding the extent to which spiritual caregivers comply with the patient’s R/S orientation and disclose their own R/S orientation. This model can be used to analyze how spiritual caregivers interact with their clients.

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精神谈话：解决不同信仰间相遇中的存在主题

摘要 精神照料者越来越关心具有其他宗教/精神 (R/S) 取向的客户而不是他们自己的取向。迄今为止，几乎没有探索过精神照顾者处理这些差异的方式。基于对 34 次精神护理者与患者互动的音频记录的分析，本文描述了精神护理者在与具有各种 R/S 取向的患者对话时使用的沟通技巧来解决存在主题。所呈现的模型描述了这些技术，涉及精神照顾者在多大程度上遵守患者的 R/S 取向并披露他们自己的 R/S 取向。该模型可用于分析精神照料者如何与客户互动。