{"id":22,"date":"2013-08-06T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index1.php\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2014-12-10T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:18:34","slug":"nersh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nersh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Big-thumbs-2-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-149\" src=\"https:\/\/nersh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Big-thumbs-2-.jpg\" alt=\"Big thumbs 2\" width=\"348\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nersh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Big-thumbs-2-.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nersh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Big-thumbs-2--300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a>From 2012 to 2014 the <i>Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)<\/i>\u00a0hosted an interdisciplinary research group of initiating nature that\u00a0brought\u00a0together theology and medicine in a particular, medically relevant context. The group consisted of Klaus Baumann (Freiburg), Arndt B\u00fcssing (Witten\/Herdecke) and Niels Christian Hvidt (M\u00fcnchen and Odense, Denmark). Together with Eckhard Frick, Professor of Spiritual Care in Munich they founded the Network for Research in Spirituality and Health (NERSH).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The aim the NERSH Network is\u00a0to contribute to the understanding of psychosocial and spiritual needs and resources in health care \u2013 with particular focus on patients suffering from chronic diseases as well as their relatives, health\u00a0 professionals and pastors that care for them \u2013 in order that they may gain the best assistance as they cope with their disease. Through the particular focus on the needs of patients the project seeks to support and value the way patients deal with chronic disease. Moreover, the project will also focus on patients\u00b4 relatives and health professionals, and their way of coping with stress in their various attentions to the needs of patients.<\/p>\n<p>Medical staff\u00a0 &#8211;&gt;\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Patients and\u00a0 Relatives<\/strong>\u00a0 &lt;&#8211;\u00a0 Pastors\/Ministers<\/p>\n<p>In its interdisciplinary work the NERSH\u00a0Network\u00a0dedicates itself to basic research, translation into innovative research, evaluation of interventions, and recommendations for the implementation in the health care professions. It will actively work towards the enhancement of research collaboration\u00a0in the secular, religiously pluralistic European context, beginning with Denmark, Germany, Poland and Switzerland, so that through interdisciplinary dialogue the quality of research in this field, so relevant for the quality of life and the health care system at large, may be advanced and stabilized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We invite you to join this network as researchers to collaborate in the 2 main topics: (1) patients\u00b4 spiritual needs and (2) physician values.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/nersh.org\/?page_id=294\">contact us<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2012 to 2014 the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)\u00a0hosted an interdisciplinary research group of initiating nature that\u00a0brought\u00a0together theology and medicine in a particular, medically relevant context. The group consisted of Klaus Baumann (Freiburg), Arndt B\u00fcssing (Witten\/Herdecke) and Niels Christian Hvidt (M\u00fcnchen and Odense, Denmark). Together with Eckhard Frick, Professor of Spiritual Care in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nersh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}