Category Archive for: "Professionalization"

Scope of Practice

December 5, 2017 Professionalization

This document seeks to articulate the scope of practice that chaplains need to effectively and reliably produce quality spiritual care. It follows on the work of an international, [...]
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Spiritual Care: What It Means, Why It Matters in Health Care

December 5, 2017 Professionalization, research

In his treatise “De Anima (On the Soul),” Aristotle teaches that the “psyche”—the soul—is the full actualization of a person, incorporating the body, the purpose, and ultimately the sum total of [...]
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Is There a Chaplain in the House? Hospitals Integrate Spiritual Care

November 24, 2017 administration, IDEAS IN BRIEF, Professionalization

Physical and spiritual well-being are often connected. In hospitals across the country, physicians and chaplains are connecting with each other to help patients. The Erlanger Hospital’s [...]
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Quantitative Outcome of Clinical Pastoral Education: A Review of the Literature

October 25, 2017 CPE, education, Professionalization

(Abstract not available. Contact Transforming Chaplaincy for assistance.)
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Students’ Perspectives: A Canadian Study of Supervised Pastoral Education

October 25, 2017 education, Professionalization

Summarizes and analyses the findings of a research study that was commissioned and supported by CAPPE and The Churches’ Council on Theological Education in Canada. Surveys students who were [...]
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