International Association for Spiritual Care

IASC is an association with the aim to foster interfaith, intercultural, and international exchange in the fields of research and practice of Spiritual Care. Its members are researchers, practitioners, and other interested parties who are involved in Spiritual Care. 

Membership/membership renewals are now open – to join or renew your membership in IASC, please click on the MEMBERSHIP tab.

SAVE THE DATE!  NEW WEBINAR APRIL 28, 2022:

CLIMATE CRISIS AND SPIRITUAL CARE

For more details go to https://utsnyc.edu/event/iasc-webinar/

The conference is free. In order to participate you have to register.

 

RECORDINGS OF WEBINARS 2020-2021 ARE AVAILABLE HERE:

 https://www.facebook.com/IASC-International-Association-for-Spiritual-Care-104549471307894/videos 

“What Is Spiritual Care from the Perspectives of Our Different Professions? (2021):

JANUARY 5 – Medicine  (with C. Puchalski, and J. Zitter)  Recording available at: (20+) Facebook  

JANUARY 12 – Public Health (with J. Blevins, P. Wanjiru Njiru and M. Jalloh)  Recording available at: (20+) Facebook

JANUARY 19 – Psychology (with. K. Pargament, C. Walker-Barnes, and P. Russo-Netzer) Recording available at: (20+) Facebook

JANUARY 26 – Nursing (with L. Ross, W. McSherry, and M. Zumstein-Shaha)  Recording available at: (20+) Facebook

FEBRUARY 2 – Pastoral Care (with  P. Cooper-White, E. Lartey, and K. Okada)  Recording available at:

(20+) Facebook

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Recordings from our summer 2020 series: “WHAT IS SPIRITUAL CARE IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES?” are available on our IASC facebook page: (20+) IASC International Association for Spiritual Care | Facebook.  

For more details re: our summer 2020 presenters, please see this flyer: IASC Webinars July-August 2020 flyer

 

I am a founding member of IASC because today’s increasingly mobile and interconnected world demands that caregivers from a wide spectrum of professions gain competency an interdisciplinary, intercultural and interreligious care.  IASC fills a unique role in providing a forum for serious, academic study of theologies and belief systems across faith traditions in the service of care for suffering that integrates spirituality and attends to issues of “ultimate concern” – mind, body, and spirit together.

Prof. Dr. Pamela Cooper–White, Union Theological Seminary, New York

Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello

Spiritual Care as a new hybrid multidisciplinary and multiprofessional field needs to be defined and established on a scientific, as well as on a professional level. IASC will bundle synergies toward the shared goal of recognizing Spiritual Care by academics and practitioners.

Prof. Dr. phil. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, University of Bern