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Conclusion

This discussion has come to include all of the coauthors and is ongoing.
It is clear to all of the authors that ongoing consultation between disaster
spiritual care and disaster mental health colleagues can help psychiatrists
integrate the knowledge about spiritual care into their understanding of
disaster mental health care and broaden the specific roles psychiatrists can
play in promoting healing after a disaster. Ultimately, the current focus on
differentiating approaches to “disaster mental health care” and “disaster
spiritual care” must not be allowed to obscure the fact that both derive
from a human tradition thousands of years old, which has its origins in
houses of worship.

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