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Abstract
Research literacy is now a requirement for Board-Certified chaplains in the US and a growing field in the UK. This reader gives an overview and introduction to the field of healthcare chaplaincy research. The 21 carefully chosen articles in this book illustrate techniques critical to chaplaincy research: case studies; qualitative research; cross-sectional and longitudinal quantitative research, and randomized clinical trials. The selected articles also address wide-ranging topics in chaplaincy research for a comprehensive overview of the field.
To help readers engage with the research, each article includes a discussion guide highlighting crucial content, as well as important background information and implications for further research. This book is the perfect primary text for healthcare chaplaincy research courses, bringing together key articles from peer-reviewed journals in one student-friendly format.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evidence-Based Healthcare Chaplaincy: A Research Reader, edited by George Fitchett, Kelsey White and Kathryn Lyndes | 3 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 9 | ||
| Introduction: Advancing Evidence-Based Healthcare Chaplaincy | 11 | ||
| Section 1: Healthcare Chaplains: Where They Work and What They Do | 21 | ||
| Introduction to Section 1 | 23 | ||
| Article 1: The Provision of Hospital Chaplaincy in the United States: A National Overview by Wendy Cadge, Jeremy Freese, and Nicholas A. Christakis, 2008 | 36 | ||
| Article 2: “He Needs to Talk!”: A Chaplain’s Case Study of Nonreligious Spiritual Care by Steve Nolan, 2016 | 48 | ||
| Article 3: What Do I Do? Developing a Taxonomy of Chaplaincy Activities and Interventions for Spiritual Care in Intensive Care Unit Palliative Care by Kevin Massey, Marilyn JD Barnes, Dana Villines, Julie D Goldstein, Anna Lee Hisey Pierson, Cheryl Scherer, Betty Vander Laan and Wm Thomas Summerfelt, 2015 | 66 | ||
| Article 4: Communicating Chaplains’ Care: Narrative Documentation in a Neuroscience–Spine Intensive Care Unit by Rebecca Johnson, M. Jeanne Wirpsa, Lara Boyken, Matthew Sakumoto, George Handzo, Abel Kho, Linda Emanuel, 2016 | 82 | ||
| Article 5: Determining Best Methods to Screen for Religious/Spiritual Distress by Stephen D.W. King, George Fitchett, Patricia E. Murphy, Kenneth I. Pargament, David A. Harrison, Elizabeth Trice Loggers, 2017 | 101 | ||
| Article 6 | 116 | ||
| Article 6: The Spiritual Distress Assessment Tool: An Instrument to Assess Spiritual Distress in Hospitalised Elderly Persons by Stefanie M Monod, Etienne Rochat, Christophe J Büla, Guy Jobin, Estelle Martin, Brenda Spencer, 2010 | 116 | ||
| Section 2: Patient/Family Spiritual Needs and Spiritual Care Interests | 135 | ||
| Introduction to Section 2 | 137 | ||
| Article 7: The Spiritual and Theological Challenges of Stillbirth for Bereaved Parents by Daniel Nuzum, Sarah Meaney, Keelin O’Donoghue, 2017 | 150 | ||
| Article 8: Identifying Religious and/or Spiritual Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults Receiving Blood and Marrow Transplants: A Prospective Qualitative Study by Judith R. Ragsdale, Mary Ann Hegner, Mark Mueller, Stella Davies, 2014 | 170 | ||
| Article 9: Adolescents’ Spirituality and Cystic Fibrosis Airway Clearance Treatment Adherence: Examining Mediators by Daniel H. Grossoehme, Rhonda D. Szczesniak, Sylvie Mrug, Sophia M. Dimitriou, Alec Marshall, and Gary L. McPhail, 2016 | 186 | ||
| Article 10: Hospital Chaplains: Through the Eyes of Parents of Hospitalized Children by Pamela K. Donohue, Matt Norvell, Renee D. Boss, Jennifer Shepard, Karen Frank, Christina Patron, and Thomas Y. Crowe, 2017 | 207 | ||
| Article 11: Service User Views of Spiritual and Pastoral Care (Chaplaincy) in NHS Mental Health Services: A Co-Produced Constructivist Grounded Theory Investigation by Julian Raffay, Emily Wood and Andrew Todd, 2016 | 224 | ||
| Article 12: Cultural Differences in Spiritual Care: Findings of an Israeli Oncologic Questionnaire Examining Patient Interest in Spiritual Care by Michael Schultz, Doron Lulav-Grinwald and Gil Bar-Sela, 2014 | 245 | ||
| Article 13: The Frequency and Correlates of Spiritual Distress Among Patients with Advanced Cancer Admitted to an Acute Palliative Care Unit by David Hui, Maxine de la Cruz, Steve Thorney, Henrique A. Parsons, Marvin Delgado-Guay, and Eduardo Bruera, 2011 | 265 | ||
| Section 3: Chaplaincy Interventions and their Impact | 279 | ||
| Introduction to Section 3 | 281 | ||
| Article 14: Relationship Between Chaplain Visits and Patient Satisfaction by Deborah B. Marin, Vanshdeep Sharma, Eugene Sosunov, Natalia Egorova, Rafael Goldstein, and George F. Handzo, 2015 | 294 | ||
| Article 15: The Association of Spiritual Care Providers’ Activities with Family Members’ Satisfaction with Care after a Death in the ICU by Jeffrey R. Johnson, Ruth A. Engelberg, Elizabeth L. Nielsen, Erin K. Kross, Nicholas L. Smith, Julie C. Hanada, Sean K. Doll O’Mahoney, and J. Randall Curtis, 2014 | 306 | ||
| Article 16: The Effect of Pastoral Care Services on Anxiety, Depression, Hope, Religious Coping, and Religious Problem Solving Styles: A Randomized Controlled Study by Paul S. Bay, Daniel Beckman, James Trippi, Richard Gunderman, and Colin Terry, 2008 | 323 | ||
| Article 17: A Novel Picture Guide to Improve Spiritual Care and Reduce Anxiety in Mechanically Ventilated Adults in the Intensive Care Unit by Joel N. Berning, Armeen D. Poor, Sarah M. Buckley, Komal R. Patel, David J. Lederer, Nathan E. Goldstein, Daniel Brodie, and Matthew R. Baldwin, 2016 | 340 | ||
| Article 18: The Impact of a Spiritual Legacy Intervention in Patients with Brain Cancers and Other Neurologic Illnesses and Their Support Persons by Katherine M. Piderman, Carmen Radecki Breitkopf, Sarah M. Jenkins, Maria I. Lapid, Gracia M. Kwete, Terin T. Sytsma, Laura A. Lovejoy, Timothy J. Yoder and Aminah Jatoi, 2017 | 361 | ||
| Article 19: What Impact Do Chaplains Have? A Pilot Study of Spiritual AIM for Advanced Cancer Patients in Outpatient Palliative Care by Allison Kestenbaum, The Rev. Michele Shields, Jennifer James, The Rev. Will Hocker, Stefana Morgan, Shweta Karve, Michael W. Rabow, and Laura B. Dunn, 2017 | 379 | ||
| Article 20: Patient Reported Outcome Measure of Spiritual Care as Delivered by Chaplains by Austyn Snowden and Iain Telfer, 2017 | 393 | ||
| Article 21: A National Study of Chaplaincy Services and End-of-Life Outcomes by Kevin J Flannelly, Linda L Emanuel, George F Handzo, Kathleen Galek, Nava R Silton and Melissa Carlson, 2012 | 418 | ||
| Full citations of the 21 articles | 431 | ||
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