Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific : Yes and No

ISBN-13: 9780789022387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 278 str.

Larry VandeCreek

Opis

Examines the widespread ambivalence among pastoral caregivers and educators over the growing inclusion of science in pastoral care and counselling methodologies.

Spis treści

• Preface: What Has Jerusalem to Do with Athens? What Has Pastoral Care to Do with Science?
• Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform?
• Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform?
• Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific? It’s a Matter of Salt
• Spirituality and Data: The Need for a New Paradigm
• To Be, or Not To Be More Scientific? That Is the Question: Yes, Absolutely, But…
• Chaplains and Science
• Chaplaincy Is Becoming More “Scientific.” What’s the Problem?
• Clinical Pastoral Education and the Value of Empirical Research: Examples from Australian and New Zealand Datum
• Health Care Chaplaincy as a Research-Informed Profession: How We Get There
• Science and Ministry: Confusion and Reality
• Siblings or Foes: What Now in Spiritual Care Research?
• Research or Perish?
• Ministry for the Good of the Whole
• Chaplain Yes and Chaplain No: Both Are Correct; Neither Is True
• Language and Tools for Professional Accountability
• Four Fatal Flaws in Recent Spirituality Research
• In the World but Not of the World: Going Beyond a Dilemma
• At the Poles Eventually All You Get Is Cold
• But What Are We Trying to Prove?
• She Said, “Some Patient Needs Get Dropped Due to More Pressing Issues”
• Respecting the Dual Sided Identity of Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy: The Phenomenological Research Model
• The Search for Truth: The Case for Evidence Based Chaplaincy
• Health Care Reform: Opportunities for Professional Chaplains to Build Intentional Communities of Learners by Integrating Faith, Science, Quality, and Systems Thinking
• The Chaplain as the Complete Philosopher
• Rediscovering Mystery and Wonder: Toward a Narrative-Based Perspective on Chaplaincy
• Attention to the Scientific Benefits of Pastoral Care Is a Blessing and a Curse
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Larry Van de Creek