Category Archive for: "pediatrics"

Spiritual Coping and Adjustments in Adolescents with Chronic Illness: A 2-Year Prospective Study

August 30, 2019 coping, pediatrics

Objective: Examine longitudinal relationships between spiritual coping and psychological adjustment among adolescents with chronic illness. Methods Adolescents (N 1⁄4 128; M 1⁄4 14.7 years) with [...]
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Children’s Hospital: The Chaplains – Reflecting on the BBC Two Television Series

August 26, 2019 pediatrics

This article reflects on the experience of the chaplaincy team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital who were filmed for a six part series by the BBC, a national broadcaster in Great Britain. It [...]
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Starting an Adolescent and Young Adult Program: Some Success Stories and Some Obstalces to Overcome

August 26, 2019 pediatrics

Adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients seem to be in a sort of no-man’s land, halfway between the two different worlds of pediatric and adult medical oncology and bearing the brunt, in terms [...]
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Development of a Spiritual Screening Tool for Children and Adolescents

August 26, 2019 pediatrics

A chaplain’s ability to provide care where it is most needed depends upon some method of pastoral triage. Screening for spiritual needs of children and adolescents has been a largely [...]
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Pediatrician Beliefs About Spirituality and Religion in Medicine: Associations with Clinical Practice

August 25, 2019 pediatrics

ABSTRACT: Objectives. Identify pediatrician (faculty and resident) beliefs about spirituality and religion (SR) in medicine and the relationship of those beliefs to SR behavior and experiences in [...]
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