Reflection: The Personal Is Public

J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2020 Oct;74(3):212-213. doi: 10.1177/1542305020932131.

Abstract

In this article, the author from Rochester General Hospital reflects on COVID impact: "Communication has sometimes suffered cold and automated relationship outcomes but there are oases in this dessert." Personal signals in a public world are humanizing artifacts in a new sterile and hypercontrolled virtual reality.

Keywords: COVID-19; chaplain; homeschool; personal.

Publication types

  • Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Cell Phone*
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Internet*
  • Interpersonal Relations*
  • Pandemics
  • Pastoral Care*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • SARS-CoV-2