IASC’s Mission is to enhance the capacities of scholars and practitioners worldwide in acquiring, disseminating and applying knowledge of theory and practice of spiritual care with an emphasis on interdisciplinary, interreligious and intercultural scholarly investigation. The Association offers vital continuing education opportunities, encourages networks for professional support and enrichment, and facilitates growth and interdisciplinary innovation engaging medicine, psychology, theology, nursing, and social work.
IASC engages in:
- Promoting multidisciplinary research concerning spiritual care.
- Fostering, encouraging and facilitating scientific exchange.
- Creating and disseminating knowledge.
- Promoting education of students, scholars, practitioners and the general public on spiritual care.
- Collaborating with other international and national scientific associations, professional associations and other groups, societies, institutions and individuals who contribute to progress in the field.
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
International Association for Spiritual Care 