O’Mahoney on Student Chaplains
Transforming Chaplaincy welcomes guest commentator Sean Doll O’Mahoney, who is CPE Manager at St. Vincent Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. We thank Sean for his insight today and encourage [...]
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‘I’m Being Swallowed Up by This Illness, So Much Pain Deep Inside’: Claire a 40 Year-old Woman with Cancer
This case study describes a chaplain’s relatively short intervention with a young female patient. Several themes of learning emerged from the encounters. The chaplain worked closely with a member [...]
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The Chaplain as the Mediator Between the Patient and the Interdisciplinary Team in Ethical Decision Making: A Chaplaincy Case Study Involving a Quadriplegic Patient
Patients who have life changing injuries may have repeated hospitalizations. Because staff often change it may be difficult for these patients to build trusting relationships with care team [...]
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Dutch Case Studies Project in Chaplaincy Care: A Description and Theoretical Explanation of the Format and Procedures
The recent surge of case studies in chaplaincy care raises challenges on the comparability of case studies and the degree to which they elucidate the relation between theory and practice. The [...]
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Case Study of “Moral Injury”: Format Dutch Case Studies Project
The case study “Moral Injury” traces care provided by a chaplain in a mental health institution to a former military marksman named “Hans”. Hans was in care at a specialized unit for military [...]
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