Transforming Chaplaincy welcomes guest commentator Rev. David Fleenor, who is Director of Education at the Center for Spirituality and Health at Mount Sinai. We thank David for his insight today [...]
The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Persons Living with Sickle Cell Disease: A Review of the Literature
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Purpose: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a serious debilitating chronic illness, affecting approximately 90,000 Americans and millions globally. Spirituality and religiosity (S/R) may ease the [...]
In an effort to support investigators conducting clinical research in palliative care who wish to maximize their chances of larger extramural funding, the National Palliative Care Research Center [...]
Research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans has increasingly converged on the conclusion that several types of spiritual distress (guilt, shame, loss of meaning and [...]
Registration for the 2018 APC Fall Chaplain Symposium “Spiritual Assessment: From Theory to Practice” Conference “Outside the Lines: Expanding Boundaries” is now open. [...]
Note: this post has been updated to include photos of Transforming Chaplaincy Fellows presenting and discussing their work in Orlando. The 2019 APC Conference “Outside the Lines: [...]
Co-sponsored by MDPI open-access journal Religions, the 2019 Conference on Medicine and Religion is now accepting abstracts. The event will take place March 29-31, 2019 at the JB Duke Hotel in [...]
Blase Polite, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical school. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. Dr. Polite and his team recently [...]
Wendy Cadge, Transforming Chaplaincy Co-Director and Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, has published a new article in Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy. You can find the abstract to [...]
Chaplains, like professionals in a range of industries, have long sought to maintain and build occupational power by articulating their professional mandate and advocating for their work. I [...]