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Spiritual Care in Serious Illness: Does Everyone Need It?

May 9, 2022 News

George Fitchett, DMin, PhD, Professor Department of Religion, Health & Human Values, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois and Director, Transforming Chaplaincy Does everyone with [...]
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Telechaplaincy: A developing field of research and practice, and a call for you to participate in its advancement

March 17, 2022 News

Petra Sprik, MPH, MDiv, BCC Chaplain Manager, Department of Supportive Oncology, Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, NC “Telechaplaincy” – this term has increasingly been used over the last few [...]
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The Dutch Chaplaincy Research Agenda: Identifying Relevant and Urgent Chaplaincy Research Themes

March 6, 2022 News

Carmen Schuhmann University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands In 2021, the professional organization of chaplains in the Netherlands published the Dutch Chaplaincy Research Agenda [...]
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Global Conversation Partners: What can we learn from our European colleagues about chaplain documentation?

February 5, 2022 News

M. Jeanne Wirpsa Program Manager & Clinical Ethicist, Medical Ethicist, Medical Ethics, Research Chaplain, Spiritual Care and Education Northwestern Memorial Hospital Anyone who has travelled [...]
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Advancing Spiritual Care with Older Adults

January 7, 2022 News

George Fitchett, DMin, PhD My first job as a chaplain was at Oak Forest Hospital, the long-term care and geriatric facility for Cook County (Illinois). I joked with friends that when I started [...]
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Spiritual Needs in a Secular Society

December 6, 2021 News

Annelieke Damen, MA, PhD Candidate, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht The religious landscape in the Netherlands is very difference from the United States. In the U.S. 23% describe [...]
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Chaplains Must Be Involved in Rigorous Continuing Education Anchored to Research

November 4, 2021 News

Ronald C. Oliver, PhD, MBA, BCC, System Vice President, Mission & Outreach, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, Kentucky Here’s a startling claim: Medical knowledge is now doubling every 73 [...]
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Spiritual Care Week Webinars, Oct 25-29

October 18, 2021 EVENTS, Uncategorized

Monday, October 25, 1 pm CST / 2 pm EST 20 Highlights from Spiritual Care Research Paul Galchutt, M Health Fairview/University of Minnesota Medical Center Shelley Varner-Perez, Indiana University [...]
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