Category Archive for: "cancer"

‘I’m Being Swallowed Up by This Illness, So Much Pain Deep Inside’: Claire a 40 Year-old Woman with Cancer

April 14, 2018 cancer, case study

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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TC Fellow awarded grant

March 5, 2018 cancer, family, grants, News

Transforming Chaplaincy Fellow Saneta Maiko received an IU Health Values grant in late February. The $97,000 grant to Saneta and his collaborators will fund a project to determine the feasibility [...]
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Racial/ethnic differences in spiritual well-being among cancer survivors

January 2, 2018 cancer, ethnicity, race, well-being

This study examined racial/ethnic differences in spiritual well-being (SWB) among survivors of cancer. We hypothesized higher levels of Peace and Faith, but not Meaning, among Black and Hispanic [...]
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When Breath Becomes Air

December 7, 2017 cancer

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the [...]
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Case Study of a Chaplain’s Spiritual Care for a Patient with Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer

October 25, 2017 cancer, Professionalization

The case study seeks to describe an oncology chaplain’s pastoral relationship with a 64-year-old woman with advanced metastatic breast cancer. The patient’s distress was complicated [...]
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