The Spirituality of Welfare Practitioners in Social Service for the Elderly in Indonesia

Witono, Toton and Fahrudin, Adi The Spirituality of Welfare Practitioners in Social Service for the Elderly in Indonesia. Talent Development & Excellence, 12 (2s). pp. 2608-2624. ISSN ISSN 1869-0459 (print)/ ISSN 1869-2885 (online)

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Abstract

Social services for the aged in Indonesia still revolve around psychosocial approach regardless of other relevant dimensions, such as spirituality. The quality of service is influenced by interaction between the elders and welfare practitioners, but it seems that spirituality of the later will mostly shape the service. Therefore, this study aims to explore how the practitioners understand spirituality and how it is implemented in practice with clients. This qualitative study recruited nine practitioners delivering services for elders in both institutional and home care setting. NVivo software was used to organize data and coding results that can be simply retrieved for analysis process. This study finds that the practitioners actually have their own view point and practices of spirituality enlightened either by religion or non-religion. Such living spirituality is practiced daily but is not explicitly and consciously used in their interactions with elderly clients. By constructivist grounded theory, several themes constructed from practitioners’ views and actions are as follows: meanings of spirituality, religious affiliations and practices, meaning making and benefit finding, beliefs and values, motivation to be practitioner, and spiritual assessment and intervention.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions:	Faculty of Social and Political Sciences > S1 Social Welfare Science / Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial
Depositing User:	Prof Dr Adi Fahrudin
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2021 12:52
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2021 12:52
URI:	http://repository.umj.ac.id/id/eprint/3815

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