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In perinatal palliative care, the loss of a baby is a deeply profound experience that calls upon our sense of meaning through religious and spiritual means. Clinicians need to recognize this anguish as spiritual distress in order to help alleviate it as much as possible. Although having a professional clinically trained chaplain (a spiritual specialist) is ideal for a palliative care team, practitioners of perinatal palliative care must be comfortable dealing with spiritual and religious issues as they arise in their everyday work. Clinicians must feel comfortable as a spiritual generalist for when, or if, they do not have access to a spiritual specialist.
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Hopkins, M. (2020). Spiritual Care in the Perinatal Period. In: Denney-Koelsch, E., Côté-Arsenault, D. (eds) Perinatal Palliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34751-2_11
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