New Publication Alert Chaplains Investigate Their Practice: The Dutch Case Studies Project Martin Walton, Jacques Körver & Niels den Toom, Editors Chaplains Investigate Their Practice presents a collaborative study that analyzes more than a hundred instances of care by chaplains in various fields of chaplaincy in the Netherlands. The research provides an answer to the questions: What do chaplains do, why, and with what results? For 40% discount, enter CONF40 at checkout when ordering the book...
28 days ago • 6 min read
The ONC-5: A New Model for Spiritual Assessment in Cancer Care (Center) Dr. George Fitchett, (L-R, Clockwise) Dirk Labuschagne, Bronwen Jones, Dr. Beth Muehlhausen, Beba Tata-Mbeng Tuesday, April 29, 1-2 PM (CDT) Spiritual assessment is one of the chaplain's most important spiritual care activities. The ONC-5 is a new model for spiritual assessment developed for spiritual care of adult cancer patients. The model yields a quantified assessment of the intensity of the patient’s spiritual...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Healthcare Chaplaincy - State of the Science Thursday, June 12, 8 AM - 5 PM (CDT) In conjunction with the annual Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) Conference (June 12-15) being hosted in the Minneapolis area, Transforming Chaplaincy is excited to announce the first ever, Healthcare Chaplaincy - State of the Science. It will be a one day event on Thursday, June 12, 8 AM - 5 PM (CDT). The morning session, Using Emerging Evidence to Strengthen the Value Proposition for Spiritual Care,...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Essential Competencies for Healthcare Chaplains: Insights from Hiring Managers and Implications for Chaplaincy Education (L-R, clockwise: Dr. David Fleenor, Tanya Willis-Robinson, Ben Schaefer, and Joel Berning) Tuesday, April 1, 12-1 PM (CDT) Researcher and ACPE educator, David Fleenor, PhD, will present on the findings from his research. To discuss the research implications and applications, he'll be joined by chaplain department directors, Tanya Willis-Robinson and Joel Berning. This event...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Newsletter Migration Thanks to your feedback, we’ve learned that the links in the newsletter we just sent out no longer work. This is probably due to the switch of newsletter platforms. So, we’re resending an abridged text version of our March newsletter with working links. We have transitioned from Mailchimp to a new email newsletter platform called Kit. Please be on the lookout for our newsletters coming from this new address: [email protected]. We recommend adding this email...
2 months ago • 7 min read