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Transforming Chaplaincy

Transforming Chaplaincy promotes evidence-based spiritual care and integrate research into professional practice and education by fostering a culture of inquiry

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Chaplains Investigate Their Practice. Dutch Case Studies Project. - Another Transforming Chaplaincy Webinar

Chaplains Investigate Their Practice. Dutch Case Studies Project. (L-R: Martin Walton & Steve Nolan) Tuesday, December 9, 12-1:15 PM (Central Time) Please join us for this upcoming Transforming Chaplaincy webinar featuring notable chaplain research scholars. In a four year project 60 chaplains in the Netherlands wrote 101 case studies and reviewed them in research communities with academic researchers. The presentation will discuss how working with case studies not only led to a description...

Developing Emotional Intelligence and Counseling Self-Efficacy in Clinical Pastoral Education (Top Row, L-R: Csaba Szilagyi & Kristin Langstraat)(Bottom Row, L-R: Lynnett Glass & Pam Lazor) Tuesday, December 2, 11 AM-12 PM (Central Time) Transforming Chaplaincy (TC) and ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education are hosting another webinar together: This webinar will explore the findings and implications of research examining how Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) students develop...

Developing Emotional Intelligence and Counseling Self-Efficacy in Clinical Pastoral Education (Top Row, L-R: Csaba Szilagyi & Kristin Langstraat)(Bottom Row, L-R: Lynnett Glass & Pam Lazor) Tuesday, December 2, 11 AM-12 PM (Central Time) Transforming Chaplaincy (TC) and ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education are hosting another webinar together: This webinar will explore the findings and implications of research examining how Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) students develop...

New Publication and Webinar (Top Row, L-R: Csaba Szilagyi, Kim Palmer)(Bottom Row, L-R: Paul Galchutt, Kristin Langstraat, George Fitchett) Congratulations to this author team with their new open access publication, Developing Emotional Intelligence and Counseling Self-Efficacy in Clinical Pastoral Education in Healthcare Settings. The team was led by Transforming Chaplaincy (TC) Director, Csaba Szilagyi and also included, Kim Palmer, TC Research Fellow alum; Paul Galchutt, TC Assistant...

New Publication and Webinar (Top Row, L-R: Csaba Szilagyi, Kim Palmer)(Bottom Row, L-R: Paul Galchutt, Kristin Langstraat, George Fitchett) Congratulations to this author team with their new open access publication, Developing Emotional Intelligence and Counseling Self-Efficacy in Clinical Pastoral Education in Healthcare Settings. The team was led by Transforming Chaplaincy (TC) Director, Csaba Szilagyi and also included, Kim Palmer, TC Research Fellow alum; Paul Galchutt, TC Assistant...

Spiritual Care in Public Mental Health Hospitals (L-R: Rev. Dr. Lauri Swann and Dr. Kayla Fisher, MD, PhD) Wednesday, November 12, 1-2 PM (Central Time) Transforming Chaplaincy and ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education are hosting another webinar together: Public psychiatric hospitals were the birthplace of CPE and modern spiritual care. The deinstitutionalization movement of the mid-20th Century dramatically changed mental health care and also spiritual care for people with...

Our Next Short Course... A few spaces remain for Masterclass for Chaplain Clinical Note Writing: An Evidence-Based Curriculum. Join Transforming Chaplaincy's Assistant Director for Engagement, Paul Galchutt, for this short course. In addition to his 20 years of bedside care, Paul's PhD dissertation focus as well as his Cambia Sojourns Scholar grant concern the chaplain's clinical note. He'll also be partnering with these expert faculty: Sarah Byrne-Martelli, Judy Connolly, and Brent Peery....

New Publications (L-R, clockwise: Csaba Szilagyi, Amanda Borchik, Dr. Anne Vandenhoeck, and Dr. George Fitchett) Congratulations to Transforming Chaplaincy staff members: Csaba Szilagyi, Director; Amanda Borchik, Staff Researcher; and Dr. George Fitchett, Senior Advisor. Much recognition as well to Dr. Anne Vandenhoeck, Professor, KU Leuven with the following publications. The increasing adoption of collaborative practices in spiritual care and healthcare makes it vital to examine chaplains’...

APC Fall Symposium: Healthcare Chaplaincy - State of the Science Thurs., Oct. 30, 9 AM-4 PM (CT) Transforming Chaplaincy is looking forward to collaborating with the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) to offer an online version of The Healthcare Chaplaincy - State of the Science (SOTS) as APC's Fall Symposium. This SOTS is just a slightly condensed version of the in-person event hosted earlier this year (June) at the APC Annual Conference. Join us on October 30, 9 AM–4 PM (Central...

Mental Health Clinical Pastoral Education – A Specialized CPE Program Rev. Angelika Zollfrank & Dr. Brandon Unruh Tuesday, October 21, 1-2 PM (CT) Transforming Chaplaincy and ACPE are jointly sponsoring this Spiritual Care Week event. One hundred years after Boisen offered the first CPE unit in a psychiatric hospital Angelika Zollfrank will describe one of the few remaining CPE programs in a mental health context. The program addresses the need for mental health competencies in religious...