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European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy

  Health Care Chaplaincy in Hungary

2002 Standards Document in Hungarian

My name is Tünde Édes and I was born on 1 March 1951. Since 1989, I have worked as a clinical chaplain with the Calvinist Church of Baranya County in Pécs

Education:

  • Calvinist Theological University Budapest, 1984-1989. (Diploma obtained: chaplain) 
  • Gereformeerde Universiteit Kampen, The Netherlands (postgraduate training, 1992-1995) 
  • Free University, Amsterdam 
    (training for clinical chaplaincy 1995)

Language skills 

Hungarian, Dutch, German, English and Russian
  • Membership of Professional Bodies: 
  • Hungarian Hospice Society
  • Hungarian Psychodrama Society
  • Hospital Ethical Board, Pécs Key Qualifications
  • Pastoral psychology (supervisor to-be)
  • Psychodrama assistant
  • Trained tutor of palliative care education
     

Professional activities: 

  • Religious service in the university clinics
  • Spiritual counselling in different clinics and hospitals for the patients of the university clinics: mainly cancer patients, children with chronic illnesses, etc.
  • Teaching (occasionally) of hospice nurses
  • Teaching in the Menthalhygiene Department of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church
     

Specialized professional activities:

  • Working as a member of the Mobil Team of Hospice in Pécs (there are 3 different Hospice teams) and connected to this
  • I teach as a trainer the volunteers by the “Good Word” Foundation. 3 groups have been trained, looking for sponsors to every team.
  • Looking tenders to the training works.

Visions for the future

  • Development of clinical chaplain practice: teamwork, permanent education
  • Training of volunteers, involving them into the team
  • To be not the only clinical chaplain in our city.
     

Rev Tünde Édes 
Clinical Chaplain with the Calvinist Church of Baranya County 
Pécs, Hungary

 

[May 2008]