Category Archive for: "spiritual care"

Predicting patients’ expectations of hospital chaplains: A multisite survey

October 4, 2017 Professionalization, spiritual care

OBJECTIVE: To identify patient expectations regarding chaplain visitation, characteristics of patients who want to be visited by a chaplain, and what patients deem important when a chaplain [...]
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Spiritual care in practice: Case studies in healthcare chaplaincy

October 4, 2017 Professionalization, spiritual care

These diverse case studies make a compelling case for the importance of effective spiritual care in healthcare and provide unprecedented insight into the essential role of the chaplain within the [...]
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Efficacy of Training Interprofessional Spiritual Care Generalists

October 3, 2017 Professionalization, spiritual care

BACKGROUND: Provision of spiritual/religious (S/R) care has been associated with improvements in patient care, patient-provider relationships, and resource utilization. Clinicians identify a lack [...]
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Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine

October 3, 2017 behavior, spiritual care

Abstract: Recognizing and understanding the potentially powerful roles that religiousness and spirituality (RS) may serve in the prevention and amelioration of disease, as well as symptom [...]
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Message in a bottle: a comparative study of spiritual needs of children and young people in and out of hospital

October 3, 2017 pediatrics, spiritual care

Using the metaphor of a message in a bottle as a framework and sending an S.O.S. to adults, the question of what are the three biggest needs of children and young people was asked. Data [...]
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