A ética do cuidado no contexto hospitalar: uma visão teológica

Abstract

This study is a bibliographic research with the goal of pointing out the ethics of caregiving in the hospital context emphasizing two perspectives: the theological and the psychological. In our modern times, it is quite perceivable that ethics is losing its value, mainly from the professional perspective but also in the personal and human areas. The human being, through a technological and virtual world, is losing his and her habitat and is destroying the ‘Ethos”, their land, the planet in which they live. In this sense one seeks to make evident an ethics directed toward the health care of the human, looking at the biopsychosociohistoricalspiritual individual, and from there, prioritize the ethics of caregiving from the perspective of Theology and Psychology, giving space for the professional conduct and work of the psychologist and also of other professionals in the spiritual realm, such as priests, religious people and pastors. In the theological perspective counseling of a psychological character will be highlighted as the base for caregiving in situations of emotional crises, anguish and suffering. In the psychological point of view the central goal is to point out the ethical issues directed toward the psychologist and this person’s technical and theoretical management in his or her professional work in the hospital. In summary, the research will make evident the joining and the importance of each area, be it theological or psychological, in the area of the ethics of caregiving and the professional management of the psychologist in the hospital context.