INTEGRATION OF SPIRITUALITY IN HEALTH CARE: THEORETICAL-EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Abstract

This essay aims to understand the genesis and the models of healthcare education whose apex is the biopsychosocial-spiritual model. For this purpose, a historical and theoretical incursion was carried out, based on the method of ”˜open materialistic realism', and on authors who believe that the relationship between health-illness care is an answer to people's historical and social needs. The article also presents the epistemological values of the different assistance/care models, which led to the biopsychosocial-spiritual one. It concludes by presenting the In­terdisciplinary Spiritual Care model as a feasible theoretical and practical proposal for the effective inclusion of spirituality in healthcare.