{"title":"Supporting A “Good” (or at Least “Better”) Death: Beyond Preferences, Procedures, and Protocols","authors":"D. B. McCurdy","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781776","url":null,"abstract":"The consensus view that the SUPPORT project “failed” should not obscure the significance of the effort itself—or its importance for chaplains. The author sketches two sets of concerns SUPPORT raises for chaplains and for pastoral care in health care. He describes some distinctive challenges these concerns create for chaplains.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"862 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127069329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exploring Places to Worship Group for Recipients of Psychiatric Services","authors":"M. Cutting","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781778","url":null,"abstract":"The author discusses factors that impact on involvement in faith communities by people with serious mental illness. She notes recent research documenting the religious resource needs of psychiatric inpatients. A group designed along the psychiatric rehabilitation model which helps services recipients to clarify their values related to faith communities and consider the process of connecting with a community is described. Experience providing the group is discussed.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125260770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Support: The Challenge to Chaplains","authors":"D. B. McCurdy","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781772","url":null,"abstract":"The results of the SUPPORT study are described, and the absence of any chaplain involvement in the study is noted. Brief descriptions of three articles discussing the role of pastoral care in advance directives and DNR orders are provided.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123538954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The SUPPORT Study: An Alternative Scenario","authors":"J. L. Gibbons","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781774","url":null,"abstract":"In contrast to the SUPPORT study findings, a survey of similar end-of-life care issues at Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL showed that intensive educational and clinical efforts to inform hospital staff, patients and families of Advance Directives improved physician-patient agreement and understanding regarding DNR orders. The central role of the chaplains in the process is described.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"1108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122924039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiritual Direction for Patients with Mental Illness","authors":"Natalie C. Shiras","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781769","url":null,"abstract":"The author shares her personal experiences providing spiritual direction for patients with mental illness in an acute care hospital setting and in a day hospital. Some practical suggestions for leading spiritual direction groups and for providing individual direction also are offered. The article concludes that incorporation of spiritual direction into the care plan benefits patients for ongoing healing.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121449583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where is the Hope","authors":"H. Ashby","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781766","url":null,"abstract":"The author faces the harsh reality of the “gestalt of violence” within many inner-city communities and asks, “Where is the hope?” He suggests that within the play itself are two possible answers. There is witness to the presence of God and there is a call to community. The challenge is whether either will be heard as a call to change.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"50 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124911250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Love and Produce! Love and Produce!1 A Drama in Three Acts","authors":"Kay Landers","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781762","url":null,"abstract":"A three-act dramatic portrayal of how the murder of a young black man affects his immediate family, the homicide investigators, and the emergency room chaplain. Questions of religious meaning, and themes of racial, social and community violence are vividly presented in the dialogue. The play is followed by five responses.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130187322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence as a Public Health Issue for African-American Male Youth","authors":"Fred D. Smith","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132553901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Widening Circles of Violence","authors":"Vincente Reyes","doi":"10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1077842X.1997.10781763","url":null,"abstract":"A chaplain from an urban trauma center uses the play to reflect on situations he has experienced in his ministry. In personal vignettes he sketches the far-reaching impact of violence on not just the victims and their immediate families, but on all who interface with it—police, hospital and medical staffs, rescue and emergency medical personnel.","PeriodicalId":252852,"journal":{"name":"The Caregiver Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121461454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}