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Title Evidence-based healthcare chaplaincy : a research reader / edited by George Fitchett, Kelsey B. White and Kathryn Lyndes
Published London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations
Contents Section 1. Healthcare chaplains: where they work and what they do. -- The provision of hospital chaplaincy in the United States : a national overview / Wendy Cadge, Jeremy Freese, Nicholas A Christakis -- He needs to talk! : a chaplain's case study of nonreligious spiritual care / Steve Nolan -- What do I do? : developing a taxonomy of chaplaincy activities and interventions for spiritual care in intensive care unit palliative care / Kevin Massey, and others -- Communicating chaplain's care: narrative documentation a neuroscience-spine intensive care unit / Rebecca Johnson, and others -- Determining best methods to screen for religious/spiritual distress / Stephen D.W. King, and others -- The spiritual distress assessment tool: an instrument to assess spiritual distress in hospitalised elderly persons / Stefanie M. Monod, and others
Section 2. Patient/family spiritual needs and spiritual care interests. -- The spiritual and theological challenges of stillbirth for bereved parents / Daniel Nuzum, Sarah Meaney, Keelin O'Donoghue -- Identifying religious and/or spiritual perspectives of adolescents and young adults receiving blood and marrow transplants: a prospective qualitative study / Judith R. Ragsdale, Mary Ann Hegner, Mark Mueller, Stella Davies -- Adolescents' spirituality and Cystic Fibrosis airway clearance treatment adherence: examining mediators / Daniel H. Grossoehme, and others -- Hospital chaplains : through the eyes of parents of hospitalized children / Pamela K. Donohue, and others -- Service user views of spiritual and pastoral care (chaplaincy) in NHS mental health services : a co-produced contructivist grounded theory investigation / Julian Raffay, Emily Wood, Andrew Todd -- Cultural differences in spiritual care : findings of an Israeli oncologic questionnaire examining patient interest in spiritual care / Michael Schultz, Doron Lulav-Grinwald, Gil Bar-Sela -- The frequency and correlates of spiritual distress among patients with advanced cancer admitted to an acute palliative care unity / David Hui, and others
Secion 3. Chaplaincy interventions and their impact. -- Relationship between chaplain visits and patient satisfaction / Deborah B. Marin, and others -- The Association of Spiritual Care Providers' activities with family members' satisfaction with care after a death in the ICU / Jeffrey R. Johnson, and others -- The effect of pastoral care services on anxiety, depression, hope, religious coping, and religious problem solving styles : a randomized controlled study / Paul S. Bay, and others -- A novel picture guide to improve spiritual care and reduce anxiety in mechanically ventilated adults in the intensive care unity / Joel N. Berning, and others -- The impact of a spiritual legacy intervention in patients with brain cancers and other neurologic illnesses and their support persons / Katherine M. Piderman, and others -- What impact to chaplains have? : a pilot study of spiritual AIM for advance cancer patients in outpatient palliative care / Allison Kestenbaum, and others -- Patient reported outcome measure of spiritual care as delivered by chaplains / Austyn Snowden, Iain Telfer -- A national study of chaplaincy services and end-of-life outcomes / Kevin J. Flannelly, and others
Summary 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
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Subject Chaplains -- Research
Chaplains, Hospital -- Research
Church work with the sick -- Research
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Adult.
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Counseling & Recovery.
Chaplains -- Research.
Chaplains, Hospital -- Research.
Church work with the sick -- Research.
Form Electronic book
Author Fitchett, George, 1948- editor.
White, Kelsey B., editor
Lyndes, Kathryn, editor
ISBN 9781784509231
178450923X