{"title":"Burnout Syndrome among Catholic Clergy in Spain: Prevalence and Associated Factors.","authors":"Damián Picornell-Gallar, Eduardo González-Fraile","doi":"10.1177/15423050261438496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261438496","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Burnout represents a complex occupational risk with significant psychosocial implications. This study estimates the prevalence of burnout among Spanish Catholic priests and examines its correlations with sociodemographic, quality of life, anxiety, depression, and personality factors. A total of 116 priests completed a battery of psychological instruments. The prevalence results varied depending on the assessment scale used. Lifestyle, type of priesthood, quality of life, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and personality traits, were significantly correlated with burnout.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261438496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147628921","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":"Dying with Dignity: The Need for Pastoral Care for Patients with Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders.","authors":"Dalmacito A Cordero","doi":"10.1177/15423050261433508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261433508","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper highlights the role of pastoral/spiritual care for patients facing a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order. Although DNR is sometimes seen as an unfortunate way of foregoing the patient's hope to survive, it can be a form of pastoral care to let them die with less pain through withholding excessive and burdensome treatment, thus keeping their dignity intact. More importantly, pastoral care involves the indispensable loving support of families, pastors/priests, and community members.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261433508"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147494650","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":"Interfaith Spiritual Care in the Hospital Setting: Three Illuminating Encounters.","authors":"Hannah D Morales Olson","doi":"10.1177/15423050261420831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261420831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hospital setting can present physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges for individuals. It is important to recognize these challenges and empower individuals to manage them. The health care team is in a unique position to listen to the needs of hospitalized individuals. Three vignettes illustrate active listening, compassion, and access to resources. With these tools, health care clinicians can humanize the hospital experience and alleviate the emotional burden patients face in the hospital setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261420831"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147356726","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":"Accompanying LGBTQIA+ Students in Faith-Based Education: A Reflection on Pastoral Care and Pedagogy.","authors":"Jonathan James O Canete","doi":"10.1177/15423050261427016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261427016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This reflection explores the integration of pastoral care and pedagogy to support LGBTQIA+ students in Catholic higher education. Drawing from classroom experiences, it highlights fostering inclusion while balancing Church teachings and students' lived experiences. The article discusses pastoral accompaniment, empathy, and the importance of creating safe spaces. It emphasizes faithful presence over easy answers, urging educators to embody radical hospitality, embrace self-reflection, and accompany students with compassion, fostering belonging and hope within the educational community.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261427016"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147277436","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":"Sacred Sensations: Achievable Spirituality in Severe Autism.","authors":"B Jeffrey Vidt","doi":"10.1177/15423050261420829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261420829","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay explores the spiritual lives of individuals with severe autism through the lenses of embodiment theology, disability theology, and personal storytelling. Drawing on the author's experience as both a father of a child with severe autism and spiritual care provider, it reframes spirituality as an embodied and sensory reality rather than primarily cognitive. The essay challenges providers to expand their spiritual imagination, recognizing sensory experiences as sacred and inviting new approaches to spiritual care.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261420829"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146132831","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":"\"Arbitrary Factors\": A Hospice Chaplain's Reflection on Deeply Human Dramas Among Healthcare Chaplains and Within their Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Shuji Moriichi","doi":"10.1177/15423050261420830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261420830","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Various \"arbitrary factors\" shaped healthcare chaplains' experiences during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author's reflection provides personal recollection, uniquely situated in the particular local organizational dynamics and inter-personal relationships among the professionals, supplementing the qualitative survey articles by the field's on-going effort to collect, organize, and interpret the pandemic's impact on the spiritual care practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261420830"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146132839","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":"Staying Informed Without Losing Ourselves: Coping with the Media in Challenging Times.","authors":"Mary Barber","doi":"10.1177/15423050261420824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261420824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261420824"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146120594","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":"<i>To Serve is to Die:</i> A Touching Doctors' Legacy.","authors":"Dalmacito A Cordero","doi":"10.1177/15423050251395009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050251395009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper is a reflection on the role of doctors in everyone's life. It is anchored and inspired from three Filipino doctors who serve as frontliners and died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through sacrifice and service, they provide unconditional care up to the point of risking and losing their lives. They deserve trust and cooperation from their patients to execute an effective treatment and care management.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050251395009"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145490456","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}
Becky Gruber, Sara Matalik, Janet Barriger, Jenny Raybin, Darcy Copeland
{"title":"Code Lavender Pilot: An Emotional Support Intervention for Intensive Care Unit Staff.","authors":"Becky Gruber, Sara Matalik, Janet Barriger, Jenny Raybin, Darcy Copeland","doi":"10.1177/15423050251326297","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050251326297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On-demand support is necessary to mitigate distress and attrition in healthcare staff. Healthcare chaplains' scope includes such support. This pilot studied the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of a Code Lavender protocol utilizing chaplain support and stress-relief items. A post-hoc analysis examined the protocol's cost-effectiveness. The results indicated the protocol's acceptability, effectiveness, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness. Healthcare worker distress can be mitigated with this simple, on-demand support utilizing the specialized skills and training of healthcare chaplains.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"11-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671365","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":"My Journey into International CPE.","authors":"David C Johnson","doi":"10.1177/15423050251319358","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050251319358","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reflection shares the journey from having no experience in international CPE to being critical of how ACPE manages programs outside the USA.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"33-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459694","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}