Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Paul Derrickson |
Author | Angelina Van Hise |
Abstract | In the immediate future Chaplains will need to practice evidence based spiritual care. To do this, they will need to be well versed in the research literature on spirituality and health, be able to critique it and incorporate it into their spiritual care, document their intervention, and measure its impact. To help train Chaplains for this reality, the Penn State Hershey Medical Center's Clinical Pastoral Education Residency program started the Spiritual Pathway Project in 2002. This paper describes the Spiritual Pathway Project, its evolution and contribution to the education of the next generation of Chaplains. |
Publication | Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 1-2 |
Pages | 3-12 |
Date | 2009 |
Journal Abbr | J Health Care Chaplain |
DOI | 10.1080/08854720903451030 |
ISSN | 1528-6916 |
Short Title | Curriculum for a Spiritual Pathway Project |
Accessed | Tue Feb 22 18:30:31 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20183109 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:07:00 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:07:00 2011 |
This article outlines the curriculum developed at Penn State Hershey Medical Center's Clinical Pastoral Education Residency program for training future hospital chaplains to practice evidence based spiritual care, to complement the evidence based approaches carried out by the rest of the medical profession.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | James W. Ellor |
Abstract | Chaplains offer a different perspective for this discussion as they are at once religious professionals, but often working in secular settings. As religious professionals they are seen as persons who represent a particular religion and yet must be available to persons of all faiths. In this context, chaplains do understand and define religion because in the course of their work they also understand that some people do not believe in religion. A chaplain's ministry is to both believer and nonbeliever. Chaplains may have greater difficulty incorporating spirituality into their work if they are from a religious tradition that does not generally include this concept in their work. Chaplains are practitioners who work directly with the dual role of religious professional working with the tools of religion and yet often operating in secular settings. |
Publication | Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 310-315 |
Date | 2009 October |
DOI | 10.1080/15528030903191649 |
ISSN | 1552-8030 |
Short Title | Listening as a Symbol of Religion |
URL | http://www.informaworld.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/10.1080/15528030903191649 |
Accessed | Mon Nov 2 20:32:12 2009 |
Library Catalog | Informaworld |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:21 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:21 2011 |
This article is a response to an article by Alice Glickman critiquing contemporary approaches to the study of religion and spirituality among the elderly. This article makes the point that from the perspectives of chaplains, who are religious professionals called to work in a secular setting, the crossing of boundaries between religious and secular is more natural than for those who approaching the problem from other perspectives.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Katherine R. B. Jankowski |
Author | Nava R. Silton |
Author | Kathleen Galek |
Author | Martin G. Montonye |
Abstract | Religious professionals completed an online survey of their use of health related practices currently known as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). They indicated how often they engaged in these practices and how often they had used these practices when helping other people. The majority of religious professionals used at least one of the practices when alone and when helping other people. The most frequently used practices were meditation and deep breathing exercises used both when alone and when helping others. Female respondents were more likely to use these practices on their own and when helping others than were males, and older respondents were more likely to use multiple CAM practices than their younger counterparts. Other Faith/Humanists used the most CAM practices when alone and Jewish respondents used the fewest. In general, religious professionals used fewer practices when helping others than they used for themselves. Limitations of this study and suggestions for future studies for examining CAM practices among religious professionals are discussed. |
Publication | Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 172-182 |
Date | Jul 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Health Care Chaplain |
DOI | 10.1080/08854726.2010.498694 |
ISSN | 1528-6916 |
Accessed | Tue Jul 27 12:22:17 2010 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20658430 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:03:48 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:03:48 2011 |
This study looks into the employment of complementary and alternative medicine by religious professionals, both alone and when working with patients, and finds that the majority of religious professionals do use CAM practices, particularly meditation and deep breathing. There is more employment of the practices by women than men, and older professionals are more likely to use combinations of CAM practices than younger professionals. There is also a tendency for religious professionals to employ CAM practices for themselves more than for helping others.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Steve Nolan |
Abstract | Using Grounded Theory, this study examines the experience of 19 palliative care chaplains in counselling dying people. Taking a broad-based definition of counselling, and using unstructured individual interviews and group work, the study aimed to understand how palliative care chaplains work with patients at the point when it has been decided to cease active treatment, the point where they risk losing hope and falling into despair. Analysing the data using code-based theory building software, the author identified four organic moments in the chaplain-patient relationship, each moment being a discernable development in the chaplain's being-with the patient: 'evocative presence'; 'accompanying presence'; 'comforting presence'; and 'hopeful presence'. The author represents the four moments as a theory of 'chaplain as hopeful presence', and offers a description of the way in which the quality of presence can facilitate patients to develop 'a hopeful manner' in which hope is reconfigured into an attribute of being. The author concludes (with Levinas) that chaplains and other palliative care staff should be aware that simply being-with an other can, in itself, be hope fostering. |
Publication | Palliative Medicine |
Volume | 25 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 21-25 |
Date | Jan 2011 |
Journal Abbr | Palliat Med |
DOI | 10.1177/0269216310380297 |
ISSN | 1477-030X |
Short Title | Hope beyond (redundant) hope |
Accessed | Sun Feb 13 10:32:52 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 21245080 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:57:52 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:57:52 2011 |
This article analyzes the role of chaplains with dying patients who have decided to cease seeking a medical cure for their ailment. It identifies four moments in the work chaplains do with such patients: evocative presence, accompanying presence, comforting presence, and hopeful presence. The article confirms the role of presence in chaplaincy as primary.
Type | Book |
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Author | Rolf Nolasco |
Place | Minneapolis |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Date | 2011 |
ISBN | 9780800696627 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:58:46 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:58:46 2011 |
This book bridges the worlds of counseling, contemplation, and action. It seeks to identify a pastoral mode arising from contemplative practice that is both effective in counseling settings and provides an avenue into social action. Less a study of counseling than a methodology for counseling.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Susan Stranahan |
Abstract | This paper explores the use of dreams in the context of pastoral care. Although many people dream and consider their dreams to hold some significant spiritual meaning, spiritual care providers have been reluctant to incorporate patients' dreams into the therapeutic conversation. Not every dream can be considered insightful, but probing the meaning of some dreams can enhance spiritual care practice. Hill's Cognitive-Experimental Dream Interpretation Model is applied in the current article as a useful framework for exploring dreams, gaining insight about spiritual problems, and developing a therapeutic plan of action. Bulkeley's criteria for dream interpretation were used to furnish safeguards against inappropriate application of dream interpretation to spiritual assessment and interventions. |
Publication | Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 87-94 |
Date | Jan 2011 |
Journal Abbr | J Health Care Chaplain |
DOI | 10.1080/08854726.2011.559862 |
ISSN | 1528-6916 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21534069 |
Accessed | Wed Jun 8 18:54:59 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 21534069 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:55:16 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:55:16 2011 |
This article encourages discussion of dreams as a part of therapeutic care of patients by pastoral care providers. Specifically, it suggests that Hill's Cognitive-Experimental Dream Interpretation Model is useful for practitioners to explore dreams with patients, gaining insight about spiritual problems, and developing a course of action.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Urs Winter-Pfändler |
Author | Christoph Morgenthaler |
Abstract | In recent years, much research work has been done in the field of religion/spirituality and healthcare. Many chaplains are wary of doing research because they assume it is cumbersome or potentially deleterious to ill patients. The aim of the present pilot study is, therefore, to find out if research on quality improvement of healthcare chaplaincy is emotionally distressing for patients. In connection with a questionnaire about quality improvement proceeding of healthcare chaplaincy, patients were asked subsequently to assess whether the completion of the questionnaire was emotionally distressing for them. A total of 91.89% of the 37 respondents said that the completion of the questionnaire was not or only slightly emotionally distressing for them. Furthermore, analyses for significant differences showed no effect, except for a significant association with the anxiety scale. Findings from this study suggest that participants found no objective reasons not to do research in healthcare chaplaincy. |
Publication | Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 140-148 |
Date | Jul 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Health Care Chaplain |
DOI | 10.1080/08854726.2010.480829 |
ISSN | 1528-6916 |
Short Title | Are surveys on quality improvement of healthcare chaplaincy emotionally distressing for patients? |
Accessed | Tue Jul 27 12:22:38 2010 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20658427 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:03:48 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:03:48 2011 |
This study aims to encourage research by healthcare chaplains into improving healthcare chaplaincy by demonstrating the fallacy of the common assumption that participating in such research with prove distressing to patients.