Siblings or foes: What now in spiritual care research?

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 81-89

  Hilsman, Gordon J ^a  

^a Franciscan Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaplaincy; Research; Spiritual care; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; COOPERATION; COUNSELING; EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LEADERSHIP; LITERATURE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RELIGION;

CHAPLAINCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE; LEADERSHIP; METAPHOR; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PASTORAL CARE; RELIGION AND SCIENCE; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 1542572195     PISSN: 08854726     EISSN: 15286916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J080v12n01_09     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Psychologist Kenneth I. Pargament has spent years studying and teaching about the resilience religious practice and belief contribute to a person’s psychological makeup and coping. See for example, Kenneth I. Pargament, The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice (The Guilford Press: New York, 1997)
2. Dale A. Mathews, MD, The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer (Viking Penquin, 1998).
3. Ted Fortier, PhD, advises me that suggesting that these changes in spiritual and religious practice actually evolved, or improved over time, is anthropologically questionable. From the anthropological point of view, who is to say they are actually better now than they were in what I am calling their earlier forms? (Tedf@Seattleu.edu).
4. Charles E. Hall, Head and Heart: The Story of the Clinical Pastoral Education Movement, (Decatur GA, Journal of Pastoral Care, 1992).
5. For example, the stated mission of Catholic Health Initiatives, the nation’s largest Catholic health system formed in 1995, states in part, “Fidelity to the Gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we move towards healthier communities.”
6. Dossey has used this term in public addresses in at least two places, at the Providence Health System in Seattle in 1995 and at the ACPE/AAPC joint national annual conference in Albuquerque in 1999.
7. Research leaders among physicians have been some of the most credible to healthcare practitioners. Dossey himself cites studies of how heart patients heal faster and bacteria grow better under the influence of prayer, given that the person praying actually can generate feelings of love for the patient or the bacteria. David B. Larson at the National Institutes of Health and Dale E. Mathews at Georgetown are, like Dossey, physicians who value the “faith factor” in healing and are bent on study-ing its power to contribute to personal healing. All of these augment the bold and well known earliest studies with orthopedic patients at the VA Medical Center in West Roxbury, MA published by physician Elizabeth McSherry in 1986, clearly documenting the efficacy of pastoral intervention (“Pastoral Care Departments: More Necessary in the DRG Era,” Heath Care Management Review, (Win) 1986, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 47-59).
8. Larry VandeCreek and George Fitchette, Chaplains and CPE Supervisors, have authored and co-authored a wide variety of similar studies from the pastoral perspective.
9. Larry VandeCreek and George Fitchette, Chaplains and CPE Supervisors, have authored and co-authored a wide variety of similar studies from the pastoral perspective.
10. Bartholomew Rodrigues et al., Spiritual Needs and Chaplaincy Services: A National Empirical Study on Chaplaincy Encounters in Health Care Settings, was commissioned and coordinated by The Providence Health System on the west coast in early 2000 (Providence Health System: 2000).
11. Mary Vander Groot, Narrating Psychology: Or, How Psychology Gets Made, (Wyndham Hall Press, 1987).
12. Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul (Harper Collins, 1992), p. 15 and Chapter 8.
13. Thomas Moore “The Body’s Poetics of Illness,” pp. 155-176.