Question

A college foreign exchange student is living with a family in england and is confused about the daily catholic prayers and rituals of the family. the student longs for the comfort of her fundamentalist protestant practices and reports to the campus nurse for direction. the nurse recognizes the student is experiencing which type of spiritual distress? spiritual loss spiritual anger spiritual alienation spiritual guilt

Answer 1

The university suffers "Spiritual Alienation". Spiritual alienation occurs when a person is confronted with spiritual practices different from those to which he is accustomed to performing or considering correct. This is common even among members of the same religion where, according to the country or region, different religious rituals are performed.