{"title":"Contextual Factors Matter: A Chaplaincy Department Manager's Practical Perspective on Current Educational Components in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and Competencies in the Professional Field.","authors":"Shuji Moriichi","doi":"10.1177/15423050261486879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261486879","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A crucial discussion of educational content to establish a more unified and consistent list of didactics in CPE can be best pursued by involving department managers in various clinical settings and locales as key collaborators with CPE educators and chaplaincy researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261486879"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148901102","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 Care for Muslim Patients During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and End-of-Life Care: A Narrative Reflection and Bedside Framework.","authors":"Effat Sorayya Ardakani, Ezatollah Behzadinia","doi":"10.1177/15423050261484610","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050261484610","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This narrative reflection examines spiritual care for Muslim patients during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and end-of-life care. Islamic ethics emphasize preservation of life, dignity, prevention of harm, and relief of suffering. Practices such as talqin, Qur'anic recitation, modesty protection, family presence, qibla orientation, and imam or chaplain involvement may be accommodated when they do not interfere with resuscitation. Direct evidence during cardiac arrest remains limited, supporting consensus, simulation, feasibility testing, and evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"85-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867362","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}
Marcin Moroń, Dariusz Niedbała, Dariusz Krok, Magdalena Biolik-Moroń, Krzysztof Matuszewski
{"title":"Severity Benchmarks for the Pennsylvania Inventory of Scrupulosity: A Brief Screening Measure for Pastoral Care and Counseling.","authors":"Marcin Moroń, Dariusz Niedbała, Dariusz Krok, Magdalena Biolik-Moroń, Krzysztof Matuszewski","doi":"10.1177/15423050261483270","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050261483270","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of the present study was to determine whether the Pennsylvania Inventory of Scrupulosity (PIOS) can effectively distinguish between individuals with clinically significant religious scrupulosity and those experiencing non-pathological religious concerns. To establish severity benchmarks for the PIOS, we utilized empirically derived cutoff points from the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R) alongside self-reported lifetime diagnosis of OCD. The study involved 732 Polish adults, the majority of whom identified as Roman Catholic. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses revealed that a PIOS total score of 26 or higher indicates an elevated risk of clinically relevant OCD symptomatology comorbid with religious scrupulosity.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"59-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148841559","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}
Wim Graafland, T Theo J Pleizier, Theo A Boer, A Stef Groenewoud
{"title":"Experiences and Views of Dutch Protestant Pastors with Palliative Sedation in Their Pastoral Care at the End of Life.","authors":"Wim Graafland, T Theo J Pleizier, Theo A Boer, A Stef Groenewoud","doi":"10.1177/15423050261458809","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050261458809","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a growing public support for medical interventions at the End of Life (EoL), such as euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (EPAS) and palliative sedation (PS). This paper explores pastors' views and their pastoral care on the place of EPAS and PS and uses a 2.556 pastors' survey. Whereas only 38% were in favour of EPAS, more than 90% could justify PS. This paper analyses the differences in pastors' attitudes regarding EPAS versus PS.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"75-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148309740","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":"Van Gogh, Cowper, and Unfinished Suffering: Narrative Hope in Clinical Chaplaincy.","authors":"Hyewon Kim","doi":"10.1177/15423050261483266","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050261483266","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This clinical pastoral reflection explores how historical and artistic narratives may support meaning-making in chaplaincy encounters. During a pastoral visit with a patient experiencing advanced cancer and depression, the lives of Vincent van Gogh and William Cowper became interpretive resources through which suffering was reframed as spiritually continuous rather than spiritually disqualifying. The encounter illustrates how narrative engagement can foster renewed hope while suffering remains unresolved within clinical pastoral care.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"106-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867435","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":"Pastoral Care and Hope: Life, Loss, and Legacy.","authors":"Mary Beth Yount","doi":"10.1177/15423050261486737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261486737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"80 3","pages":"47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148945954","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 Chaplain & The Doctor (2025).","authors":"Florence Gelo","doi":"10.1177/15423050261483274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261483274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"80 3","pages":"110-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148945911","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":"Comparing the Art of Midwifery Practice to Spiritual Care: Common Characteristics Emerging from Theoretical Models and Field Work.","authors":"M-N Bélanger-Lévesque, S Crowther","doi":"10.1177/15423050261483272","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050261483272","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article offers an original comparative analysis of spiritual care providers and midwives using two theoretical models, the \"art of midwifery practice\" and \"practiced spirituality\". The analysis draws on interview data from ten New Zealand midwives. Focusing on presence, guardianship, intuition, confidence/courage, and human relationship. The analysis reveals shared yet distinct ways of enacting care, illuminating overlooked dimensions of spiritual care practice, and opening new avenues for interdisciplinary reflection.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"66-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13562770/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiritual Care Tools from the Hindu Tradition: A Holistic Approach to Addressing Life's Challenges.","authors":"Gaurav Rastogi, Zachary Ginder","doi":"10.1177/15423050261483268","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050261483268","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This theoretical exploration examines Hindu spiritual practices within their historical and philosophical context, focusing on their application to the threefold afflictions of human experience: superhuman/situational, physical, and mental/spiritual. Drawing on classical Hindu texts and interdisciplinary literature, it considers how Vedic astrology, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and devotional practice may be integrated into spiritual care. Applications for spiritual care providers are offered, alongside consideration of limitations and directions for continued scholarly inquiry.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"48-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148841013","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 Hidden ROI: Why Hospital Chaplains Deserve Equitable Compensation.","authors":"Chaplain Shady M Alshorman","doi":"10.1177/15423050261484599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261484599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This reflection challenges the revenue-centric model of healthcare administration within the United States that treats professional chaplains as financial liabilities due to a lack of direct fee-for-service insurance billing codes-a structural condition reflected in compensation disparities between chaplains and their clinical peers. Operating within the contemporary landscape of value-based care, this paper synthesizes health economics and clinical literature to establish a data-informed case for chaplaincy as an institutional asset for cost mitigation and quality improvement. Early spiritual care and interdisciplinary palliative interventions correlate with reduced patient Length of Stay (LOS) and lower overall resource utilization under Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payment structures. Furthermore, integrated spiritual care supports federal reimbursement under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program by improving Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient experience scores. Chaplaincy interventions also mitigate costly clinical workforce turnover by addressing moral distress among nurses and physicians. Ultimately, evaluating a chaplain's utility solely through direct fee-for-service revenue tracking represents a narrow economic view. Aligning compensation structures to reflect operational contributions establishes equitable pay as a matter of fiscal accuracy and administrative sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":" ","pages":"15423050261484599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867430","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}