Abstract: Chaplains are employed by health organizations around the world to support patients in recognizing and addressing their spiritual needs. There is currently no generalizable measure of [...]
Distinguishing between spiritual distress, general distress, spiritual well-being, and spiritual pain among cancer patients during oncology treatment
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Background: Spiritual distress is present in ~25% of oncology patients. We examined the extent to which this measure is identical to a variety of other measures, such as spiritual well-being, [...]
Reflections on using metaphors in exploring spiritual and religious needs with young people with cancer and their families
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Abstract: Knowing what to say to a young person with cancer is often very difficult and even professionals in the field can lack confidence in engaging with the spiritual and religious dimensions [...]
Purpose: This study sought to validate for the first time a brief screening measure for religious/spiritual (R/S) distress given the Commission on Cancer’s mandated screening for psycho-social [...]
Abstract: In light of the continued growth of chaplaincy-related research this paper presents an overview of important findings. The review summarizes research in six broad areas: what chaplains [...]
Abstract: Religion and/or spirituality (R/S) can play a vital, multifaceted role in mental health. While beliefs about God represent the core of many psychiatric patients’ meaning systems, [...]
Abstract: Trauma and spirituality represent an understudied area of community experience. As in introductory article for this themed issue for the Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the [...]
Theodicies and professional quality of life in a nationally representative sample of chaplains in the veterans’ health administration
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(Abstract:) This study examined the role of theodicies or theological/philosophic attempts to resolve existential dilemmas related to evil and human suffering in chaplains’ professional [...]
Bull, A. W. (2013). The insights gained from a portfolio of spiritual assessment tools used with hospitalised school-aged children to facilitate the delivery of spiritual care offered by the [...]
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