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This conversation featured Dr. Betty Ferrell, a decades-long leader and researcher within spiritual care in palliative care and oncology, along with Danielle Gilchrist, a palliative chaplain researcher and PhD student. They reflected on and discussed interprofessional spiritual care practice and research within palliative care.

Chaplains support their healthcare worker colleagues. Until recently, the evidence for this claim was scattered amid the literature. Thanks to first author, Sarah Knapp, and her author team, including Ben Schaefer, this evidence was systematically identified and mapped in their scoping review, Chaplain care for health care colleagues. Sarah and Ben presented their findings and were joined by re...

The editor, Dr. Megan Best, Associate Professor, The University of Notre Dame Australia, of the newly published volume, Spiritual Care in Palliative Care: What it is and Why it Matters, joined Transforming Chaplaincy for this webinar. She was joined by the following contributing authors: Csaba Szilagyi, Paul Galchutt, and Edward Peñate. This new text is a monumental contribution to the field wi...

Jeanne Wirpsa: Program Director, Medical Ethics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital Nina Redl: Researcher and TC's convener for the Chaplaincy Functions network David Fleenor: Researcher and ACPE Certified Educator, Stony Brook University Hospital Dr. Bob Price: Regional Healthcare Ethicist, National Center for Ethics in Health Care, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs These researchers discussed...

Dr. Tim Usset, PhD moderated a presentation with Dr. Andrew Smith, PhD, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine as well as a team of chaplain leaders (David Hottinger, Michael LeBuhn, and Aaron Unseth) from Allina Health, located in Minnesota. They discussed the shortcomings in the healthcare worker well-being/critical incident literature. Dr. Smith specifically addressed these limitations and di...

Dr. Britt’s research interest focuses on identifying resilience factors (i.e., spirituality and religion) for cognitive and brain health in older adults to inform culturally inclusive spiritual interventions for persons with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, and their caregivers to slow decline and reduce disparities.

It explored the related issues of boundaries and dual relationships within health and social care chaplaincy. It noted a tension between an understanding of pastoral care as having unstated and flexible boundaries and the clear statements from professional bodies that boundaries help the effective functioning of caring and supportive relationships. Drawing on a range of research the presenters ...

This webinar will explore research and practical tips for palliative care clinicians attending to the existential experience. Dr. Tarbi will share some of her work investigating how existential issues may manifest during everyday palliative care conversations. This webinar will also highlight tips from a forthcoming piece to which all speakers contributed, Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinician...

This session will present tools to equip chaplains in ensuring that people with mental health needs receive the same skillful and compassionate Spiritual Care support as those seeking care for other health concerns. The first tool introduces a context assessment process to identify barriers and opportunities for integrating chaplaincy and mental health within a specific care setting, recognizin...

The 38th annual Bowles Chapel Lecture presents “Healthy Communities Yield Healthy People” featuring David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, MDiv. We will examine the ways in which religious involvement can affect health. There is substantial research demonstrating both positive and negative effects. This has important implications for how people should live as individuals and also for the spiritual leader...

This webinar, sponsored by Transforming Chaplaincy Elder Care Research Network, features Celina Carter, RN, PhD, from the SE Research Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Celina will talk about Reflection Rooms and the team of researchers who supported their installation in 32 long-term care homes in Ontario, Canada. Refection Rooms are unfacilitated arts-based portable installations that provid...

This webinar continues the exploration of an evidence based approach to chaplaincy and mental health and will focus on the elements of clinical expertise and the individual care recipient. This webinar will demonstrate how chaplain skills are well suited to care for mental health needs and the key role chaplain assessment plays in this care. Using examples with several different symptoms that o...

Join us for the first look at the results of a mixed-methods study that explored chaplains' involvement in community health and population health initiatives. The study, conducted in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University, utilized surveys and interviews to hear the stories of chaplains and chaplaincy departments who extended spiritual care beyond their traditional responsibilities. ...

Critical challenges for advancing spiritual care in healthcare include developing outpatient spiritual care and practicing evidence-based outcome-oriented spiritual care that is built on a foundation of empathic presence. In this webinar we will describe a pilot study of spiritual care for cancer outpatients. The project illustrates how spiritual care providers can successfully address these im...

Contributions of Spiritual Health Practitioners in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

Addressing Spirituality as Part of Neuropalliative Care

Religious Accommodation in the Time of Covid Our Blessing and Our Burden

Quality Improvement and Falls Prevention

Chaplaincy and Mental Health Reviewing the Evidence Part 1 of 3 Spiritual Care Week

Spirituality & Mental Health Empirical Insights and Clinical Directions

Developing Chaplain Led Evidence Based Interventions for Healthcare Workers

Mental Health Chaplaincy What We Know and Don’t Know Spiritual Care Week

Religion as a Social Determinant of Health in Older Adults:

Provision of Chaplaincy Services in U S Hospitals A Strategic Conformity Perspective

Shaping the Future of Spiritual Care Insights from Australia

From the Margins to the Center Curb Cut Effects in Spiritual Supports William Gaventa, MDiv

Palliative Care Chaplains and Cambia Sojourns Scholars

Webinar 2 Wisdom and the Post Secular Overcoming Dichotomies in Chaplaincy

Chaplaincy: Naming the Heart & Soul of Our Profession: Part One