Spiritual Competence for Healthcare Professionals
A clinically grounded framework for engaging spirituality in patient care with clarity, ethics, and confidence.
When spirituality enters the clinical space, many professionals feel unprepared.
Healthcare professionals routinely encounter spiritual questions, beliefs, and distress from patients and colleagues—often without formal training on how to respond ethically, respectfully, or effectively.
Avoidance, discomfort, or overstepping are common—not because of indifference, but because the clinical frameworks have been missing.
Spiritual competence is a clinical skill—not a personal belief system.
Spiritual competence is not about religion, ideology, or personal spirituality.
It is about developing the awareness, language, and ethical discernment needed to engage people’s spiritual lives without harm, projection, or boundary violations.
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A structured approach to spiritually competent care
The Spiritual Competence for Healthcare Professionals course offers a clear, research-informed framework designed for modern clinical environments. Participants develop practical skills for recognizing, assessing, and responding to spiritual dimensions of care—for both patients and themselves—without compromising clinical standards.
Grounded in research. Informed by practice.
Developed by Dr. Tochi Brown, whose work explores the intersection of spirituality, healthcare, and clinical ethics, this framework bridges academic rigor with real-world application across healthcare settings.
Designed for healthcare professionals across disciplines
This work is intended for clinicians, educators, and healthcare professionals who recognize the role spirituality plays in the healthcare domain—and want to engage it and themselves with integrity, humility, and skill.
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