Eckhard Frick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1025473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eckhard Frick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eckhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Frick |
| SIGNATURE | FRICK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | TUM Klinikum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6753-1004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Translation and Validation of the Italian Version of the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ)
The Spiritual Path of Transformation 1
Transformation is an essential component of individuation; it is not a linear but a circular process, encompassing experiences of standstill and deadlock where no longitudinal continuation is visible. Jung describes transformation in alchemical terms as a shared dialectical “reaction” between patient and analyst. The circular transformation process may require “faith in O” (Bion). Analysis may convey explicit knowledge about “O”, but the process …
Spiritual Coping in the Process of Home Care Among Family Caregivers
Spirituality helps family caregivers (FC) cope with the challenges of home care. FCs use spiritual resources such as hope, faith, or reflection to develop a mindful relationship with themselves, experience meaning, and accept the new life situation, which reduces negative emotions and strengthens their resilience. There is currently a lack of studies investigating how spirituality among FCs changes over time in the care situation. More knowledge …
Translation and Validation of the Dutch Version of the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ-NL)
The importance of spirituality in the treatment of mental illness is increasingly acknowledged, but mental healthcare professionals often feel they lack specific competence. An instrument is missing to quantify the spiritual care competence of mental healthcare professionals in the Netherlands. The aim of this study was thus to translate the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ) into Dutch and validate it for use in mental healthcare. Af…
GPs ́ Personal Spirituality, Their Attitude and Spiritual Competence
To understand if GPs' spiritual competence, their personal spirituality and attitude towards enquiring about spirituality in practice interrelate, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of 30 German GPs regarding issues of SC. We found correlations between GPs' personal spirituality, their spiritual competence and their attitudes towards SC. The ability to perceive spiritual needs of patients was the competence most strongly related to GPs' attitu…
The NERSH Questionnaire and Pool of Data from 12 Countries
Critical Care Providers’ Moral Distress
MD is experienced differently by different groups of CCPs depending on their place in the hierarchy of responsibility. As MD perception is best predicted by emotional exhaustion, these situations should be avoided. Although some CCPs may rely on spiritual resources, all need individual and team support to cope with MD
Evaluation of a Spiritual History with Elderly Multi-Morbid Patients in General Practice—A Mixed-Methods Study within the Project HoPES3
The SH seems to be a possible 'door opener' for a trusting doctor-patient relationship, which can then be built upon
Spiritual Care Competences among Health Care Professionals in Pakistan
Introduction: There is a gap in healthcare literature related to the spiritual competence of physicians and nurses practicing in South Asian Muslim communities. To fill that gap, the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ) was applied which was developed to address multi-professional spiritual care competences. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study among 294 health professionals (61% physicians, 17% nurses, and 22% other professio…
The International NERSH Data Pool of Health Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Religiosity and Spirituality in 12 Countries
Translation and Validation of the Spanish Version of the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ)
We aimed to validate the Spanish version of the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ) in a sample of 791 health care professionals from Spanish speaking countries coming principally from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Spain. Exploratory factor analysis pointed to six factors with good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.71 to 0.90), which are in line with the factors of the primary version of the SCCQ. Conversation com…
Norwegian psychotherapy
Addressing spiritual concerns in psychotherapy might be challenging in secular societies. An additional obstacle may be a possible religiosity gap between psychotherapists and their patients. To explore levels of religiosity and spiritual care competence, the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire was given to professionals in Norwegian mental health clinics. 262 staff participated, 92 of them psychologists. Results indicated first, that psychol…
Religious Values in Clinical Practice are Here to Stay
Research to date has shown that health professionals often practice according to personal values, including values based on faith, and that these values impact medicine in multiple ways. While some influence of personal values are inevitable, awareness of values is important so as to sustain beneficial practice without conflicting with the values of the patient. Detecting when own personal values, whether based on a theistic or atheistic worldvie…
Spirituelle Anamnese
Meaning in life of older adults living in residential and nursing homes
Background: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the analysis of older people’s Meaning in Life and the implications of dwelling in residential and nursing homes. The transition from one’s private home to a residential or nursing care facility is a challenge for many older people. An individualized (not standardized) approach to meaning in life programming can help professionals in developing tailored interventions to support residents …
Spiritual Dryness and Celibacy in Catholic Priests – Discernment of Ongoing Spiritual Journeys from Relational and Psychosexual Immaturities
Coping Mechanisms for Psychosomatic Symptoms among Aging Roman Catholic German priests
Fallbuch Spiritualität in Psychotherapie und Psychiatrie
Factor Structure of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in Persons with Chronic Diseases, Elderly and Healthy Individuals
The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) is an established measure of psychosocial, existential and spiritual needs. Its 4-factor structure has been primarily validated in persons with chronic diseases, but until now has not been done in elderly and stressed healthy populations. Therefore, we tested the factor structure of the SpNQ in: (1) persons with chronic diseases (n = 627); (2) persons with chronic disease plus elderly (n = 940); (3) health…
Religionssensibilität in der Sozialen Arbeit
Mit Blick auf die aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen, medialen, alltagsbezogenen Diskurse lässt sich beobachten: Wir erleben eine Renaissance von Religion, die vom Raum des Persönlichen und Privaten in den Raum des Öffentlichen und Kollektiven wandert. Religion wird öffentlich wieder verstärkt wahrgenommen und ist vielfach Bezugspunkt individueller und kollektiver Anerkennungsforderungen sowie Sinnsuchbewegungen. Diese gesellschaftliche Präsenz d…
Spiritual dryness in Catholic priests
Reduced Sense of Coherence Due to Neuroticism
Reactions and Strategies of German Catholic Priests to Cope with Phases of Spiritual Dryness
Freuds Atheismus im Widerspruch
The project of classical modernity shapes the world in secular terms, institutionally and – especially – in the critique of religion. Freud is a late proponent of classical modernity, and his conce
The International NERSH Data Pool-A Methodological Description of a Data Pool of Religious and Spiritual Values of Health Professionals from Six Continents
Collaboration within the recently established Network for Research on Spirituality and Health (NERSH) has made it possible to pool data from 14 different surveys from six continents. All surveys are largely based on the questionnaire by Curlin "Religion and Spirituality in Medicine, Perspectives of Physicians" (RSMPP). This article is a methodological description of the process of building the International NERSH Data Pool. The larger contours of…
Health and Life Satisfaction of Roman Catholic Pastoral Workers
Factor Structure of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in Persons with Chronic Diseases, Elderly and Healthy Individuals
The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) is an established measure of psychosocial, existential and spiritual needs. Its 4-factor structure has been primarily validated in persons with chronic diseases, but until now has not been done in elderly and stressed healthy populations. Therefore, we tested the factor structure of the SpNQ in: (1) persons with chronic diseases (n = 627); (2) persons with chronic disease plus elderly (n = 940); (3) health…
Norwegian psychotherapy
Addressing spiritual concerns in psychotherapy might be challenging in secular societies. An additional obstacle may be a possible religiosity gap between psychotherapists and their patients. To explore levels of religiosity and spiritual care competence, the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire was given to professionals in Norwegian mental health clinics. 262 staff participated, 92 of them psychologists. Results indicated first, that psychol…
Spiritual Dryness in Non-Ordained Catholic Pastoral Workers
Background: We wondered whether "spiritual dryness" as a specific phase of "spiritual crisis" or insecurity is mostly a matter only of Catholic priests or can also be found in other pastoral professionals. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, we measured the prevalence of spiritual dryness in non-ordained Catholic pastoral workers, and identified relevant predictors. Results: In a sample of 3.277 pastoral workers, 50% would occasionally experien…
The NERSH International Collaboration on Values, Spirituality and Religion in Medicine
Modern healthcare research has only in recent years investigated the impact of health care workers' religious and other moral values on medical practice, interaction with patients, and ethically complex decision-making. Thus far, no international data exist on the way such values vary across different countries. We therefore established the NERSH International Collaboration on Values in Medicine with datasets on physician religious characteristic…
Spiritual Dryness and Celibacy in Catholic Priests – Discernment of Ongoing Spiritual Journeys from Relational and Psychosexual Immaturities
The International NERSH Data Pool-A Methodological Description of a Data Pool of Religious and Spiritual Values of Health Professionals from Six Continents
Collaboration within the recently established Network for Research on Spirituality and Health (NERSH) has made it possible to pool data from 14 different surveys from six continents. All surveys are largely based on the questionnaire by Curlin "Religion and Spirituality in Medicine, Perspectives of Physicians" (RSMPP). This article is a methodological description of the process of building the International NERSH Data Pool. The larger contours of…
Self-Attributed Importance of Spiritual Practices in Catholic Pastoral Workers and their Association with Life Satisfaction
L'accompagnement des malades cancéreux
Les personnes atteintes d'un cancer sont amenées à vivre un véritable « travail de sens ». Cette quête de sens est au centre du débat concernant la place de la spiritualité en médecine, notamment en psycho-oncologie et en médecine palliative. La médecine, axiologiquement neutre, hésite à se risquer sur ce terrain
Transforming Losses-A Major Task of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
Since Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia", bereavement encompasses the dilemma between continuing versus relinquishing bonds to deceased persons. Mourning is the process of symbolizing the loss, of making sense by facing the conflict between the absence of the lost object and the continuing presence of an emotional relationship to that which is lost. Furthermore, mourning is not limited to bereaved persons but also concerns dying persons and, in a…
Gewissensentscheidungen im interdisziplinären Feld von Spiritual Care
Freuds Religionskritik und der "Spiritual Turn"
Sigmund Freuds 1927 erschienene "Zukunft einer Illusion" und die kurz darauf verfasste Erwiderung des reformierten Pfarrers und Psychoanalytikers Oskar Pfister ("Die Illusion einer Zukunft") eröffnen einen spannungsreichen Dialog zwischen dem Denken, der Praxis, den verschiedenen Schulen und Institutionen der Psychoanalyse einerseits und Theologie, Philosophie und Religionsgemeinschaften andererseits. Der aktuelle "Spiritual Turn" zeichnet sich d…
Reporting spiritual needs of older adults living in Bavarian residential and nursing homes
We intended to study unaddressed psychosocial and spiritual needs among older people (of at least 65 years of age) living in nine residential/nursing homes in Bavaria in Southern Germany. We conducted an anonymous cross-sectional study with standardised questionnaires (i.e., Spiritual Needs Questionnaire, Brief Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Scale, Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation, etc.). Religious needs were predicted best by resident…
Health and Life Satisfaction of Roman Catholic Pastoral Workers
Do Self-efficacy Expectation and Spirituality Provide a Buffer Against Stress-Associated Impairment of Health? A Comprehensive Analysis of the German Pastoral Ministry Study
Self-Attributed Importance of Spiritual Practices in Catholic Pastoral Workers and their Association with Life Satisfaction
Spiritual Dryness in Non-Ordained Catholic Pastoral Workers
Background: We wondered whether "spiritual dryness" as a specific phase of "spiritual crisis" or insecurity is mostly a matter only of Catholic priests or can also be found in other pastoral professionals. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, we measured the prevalence of spiritual dryness in non-ordained Catholic pastoral workers, and identified relevant predictors. Results: In a sample of 3.277 pastoral workers, 50% would occasionally experien…
The NERSH International Collaboration on Values, Spirituality and Religion in Medicine
Modern healthcare research has only in recent years investigated the impact of health care workers' religious and other moral values on medical practice, interaction with patients, and ethically complex decision-making. Thus far, no international data exist on the way such values vary across different countries. We therefore established the NERSH International Collaboration on Values in Medicine with datasets on physician religious characteristic…
Religionssensibilität in der Sozialen Arbeit
Mit Blick auf die aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen, medialen, alltagsbezogenen Diskurse lässt sich beobachten: Wir erleben eine Renaissance von Religion, die vom Raum des Persönlichen und Privaten in den Raum des Öffentlichen und Kollektiven wandert. Religion wird öffentlich wieder verstärkt wahrgenommen und ist vielfach Bezugspunkt individueller und kollektiver Anerkennungsforderungen sowie Sinnsuchbewegungen. Diese gesellschaftliche Präsenz d…
Spiritual dryness in Catholic priests
Reduced Sense of Coherence Due to Neuroticism
Reactions and Strategies of German Catholic Priests to Cope with Phases of Spiritual Dryness
Freuds Atheismus im Widerspruch
The project of classical modernity shapes the world in secular terms, institutionally and – especially – in the critique of religion. Freud is a late proponent of classical modernity, and his conce
The International NERSH Data Pool-A Methodological Description of a Data Pool of Religious and Spiritual Values of Health Professionals from Six Continents
Collaboration within the recently established Network for Research on Spirituality and Health (NERSH) has made it possible to pool data from 14 different surveys from six continents. All surveys are largely based on the questionnaire by Curlin "Religion and Spirituality in Medicine, Perspectives of Physicians" (RSMPP). This article is a methodological description of the process of building the International NERSH Data Pool. The larger contours of…
Coping Mechanisms for Psychosomatic Symptoms among Aging Roman Catholic German priests
Fallbuch Spiritualität in Psychotherapie und Psychiatrie
Factor Structure of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in Persons with Chronic Diseases, Elderly and Healthy Individuals
The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) is an established measure of psychosocial, existential and spiritual needs. Its 4-factor structure has been primarily validated in persons with chronic diseases, but until now has not been done in elderly and stressed healthy populations. Therefore, we tested the factor structure of the SpNQ in: (1) persons with chronic diseases (n = 627); (2) persons with chronic disease plus elderly (n = 940); (3) health…
Spirituelle Anamnese
Meaning in life of older adults living in residential and nursing homes
Background: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the analysis of older people’s Meaning in Life and the implications of dwelling in residential and nursing homes. The transition from one’s private home to a residential or nursing care facility is a challenge for many older people. An individualized (not standardized) approach to meaning in life programming can help professionals in developing tailored interventions to support residents …
Spiritual Dryness and Celibacy in Catholic Priests – Discernment of Ongoing Spiritual Journeys from Relational and Psychosexual Immaturities
Religious Values in Clinical Practice are Here to Stay
Research to date has shown that health professionals often practice according to personal values, including values based on faith, and that these values impact medicine in multiple ways. While some influence of personal values are inevitable, awareness of values is important so as to sustain beneficial practice without conflicting with the values of the patient. Detecting when own personal values, whether based on a theistic or atheistic worldvie…
The International NERSH Data Pool of Health Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Religiosity and Spirituality in 12 Countries
Translation and Validation of the Spanish Version of the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ)
We aimed to validate the Spanish version of the Spiritual Care Competence Questionnaire (SCCQ) in a sample of 791 health care professionals from Spanish speaking countries coming principally from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Spain. Exploratory factor analysis pointed to six factors with good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.71 to 0.90), which are in line with the factors of the primary version of the SCCQ. Conversation com…
Psychology (28 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (28 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Spirituality (13 works) · Alternative medicine (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (8 works) · Nursing (8 works)