{"title":"Books Review: Buoyant: What Held Us Up When Our Bodies Let Us Down by Dotty Holcomb Doherty","authors":"Ann K. Riggs","doi":"10.1177/15423050221096318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221096318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"155 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41724835","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 Health Support for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in the Community","authors":"Gillian McLean","doi":"10.1177/15423050221092318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221092318","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a qualitative research project that examines the role of the spiritual health practitioner in an interprofessional Assertive Community Treatment team. The full-time spiritual health practitioner worked alongside the team to support clients with severe mental illness over a six-month period from September 2016 to March 2017. The project examined how the spiritual health needs of clients were addressed through the clinical practice of a spiritual health practitioner. Written in a narrative voice, the findings are presented and discussed, study limitations are identified, recommendations regarding the provision of spiritual health care in the community are made, and areas of future research suggested.","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"129 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47952944","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}
Margaret Allison Clarke, K. Walker, S. Spurr, V. Squires
{"title":"Clergy Resilience: Accessing Supportive Resources to Balance the Impact of Role-Related Stress and Adversity","authors":"Margaret Allison Clarke, K. Walker, S. Spurr, V. Squires","doi":"10.1177/15423050221090864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221090864","url":null,"abstract":"Resilience is a helpful construct when considering how to support clergy well-being. The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about clergy resilience, specifically those resources that clergy perceived had supported their professional resilience. The study gave attention to aspects of preservice training and professional development that helped to foster clergy resilience and initiatives that clergy desired to further support their resilience. Clergy reported multiple resources that supported their resilience including supports for spiritual life, relational supports, personal aspects, and organizational practices. Spiritual dimensions of support for resilience were prominent for clergy, especially the centrality of calling to ministry, theological meaning-making, and relationship with God. Participants also revealed helpful aspects of preservice training and professional development. Aspects of preservice training included rigorous discernment and screening of their callings and the inclusion of required practices, such as spiritual direction or mentorship. Aspects of professional development included a variety of skill development opportunities, lifelong learning, conferences, and networking with peers. Participants reported their desire for initiatives that included more wellness opportunities and an increased organizational prioritization of clergy wellness.","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"210 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42684516","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}
Clark Patrick Heard, Jared Scott, Rev'd Stephen Yeo
{"title":"Spiritual Care Professionals as Unit-Based Interdisciplinary Team Members? Considering Patient and Staff Perceptions in a Forensic Mental Health Care Setting","authors":"Clark Patrick Heard, Jared Scott, Rev'd Stephen Yeo","doi":"10.1177/15423050221092317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221092317","url":null,"abstract":"This project considers two co-occurring studies accounting perceptions of patients (n=8) and staff (n=8) related to assignment of Spiritual Care students as full-time interdisciplinary team members at a Forensic mental health facility. Students on 12-week placements were individually assigned to care units. Qualitative method consistent with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was employed. The co-occurring studies identified that enhanced access to Spiritual Care was valued. Staff and patients indicated a desire for more spirituality focused participation.","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"139 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47468888","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":"Is Supervised Pastoral Education (SPE) “Substantially Equivalent” to a Recognized Psychotherapy Program in Ontario?","authors":"Jason Mills","doi":"10.1177/15423050221089577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221089577","url":null,"abstract":"After completing their Supervised Pastoral Education units provided by the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care, two soon-to-be-certified Spiritual Care Practitioners applied to the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. Both were rejected because their Supervised Pastoral Education program was not deemed to be “substantially equivalent” to a recognized psychotherapy program. This came as a surprise since similarly qualified Canadian Association for Spiritual Care Practitioners in Ontario are also members of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario through a process called “grandparenting.” Using the 10 characteristics of a College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario recognized program, this paper examines Canadian Association for Spiritual Care's SPE program in detail, showing how closely it aligns with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario's description of an equivalent psychotherapy program. I conclude by suggesting the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario should embrace Supervised Pastoral Education as an equivalent program and grant memberships, not just to those grand parented in, but to future Canadian Association for Spiritual Care Practitioners.","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"114 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43869492","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":"A Less Examined Crisis of Children Growing up with Technology","authors":"F. Gelo","doi":"10.1177/15423050221087186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221087186","url":null,"abstract":"The video was part of a virtual “tour” by Culture Reframed, an educational organization that calls hyper-sexualized media and pornography the “public health crisis of the digital age”—one that poses a substantial threat to child development and well-being. A trusted friend had invited me to join the Zoom tour, and I agreed, partly because I knew little about the issue. The TedTalk Growing Up in a Pornified Culture given by Gail Dines, professor emerita of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts and Founder & President of Culture Reframed was central to this tour. Often, I wanted to pause, rewind and talk about what I was learning. I was stunned, then disbelief set in, while I continued to listen to the Q&A and closing remarks. I imagined my young grandnieces and felt fury. One question came to mind: does research support the claims and assumptions made in the talk and posted on their webpage? Though the website provides the reader with a well-organized list of facts about “the porn crisis,” I wanted other sources of information to corroborate the same claim. A quick Internet quest revealed articles and books about the effects of children’s exposure to pornography. I returned to the Culture Reframed Academic Library and searched. This library can be accessed from the webpage and provides “peer-reviewed journal articles and selected reports from the last twenty years.” What I learned from watching the talk and reading articles was a revelation. I surmised that many mental and spiritual health professionals, like myself, might lack sufficient knowledge about this pervasive and systemic danger to our youth’s physical, mental, and emotional safety. All attendees at Culture Reframed Tour were asked to provide feedback on the tour and names of others who might connect with their work. When asked for a response to the tour and the TedTalk by the Development Coordinator, I was surprised by a deeper awareness of my harmful ignorance. I realized that my initial expectation was to learn about an issue that I knew little about. I was not prepared to experience the problem of pornography and youth so personally. I found this awareness heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. In hindsight, I was not prepared to have distressing feelings, to feel assaulted by the force of my protective response for my family. I preferred to remain at the periphery and to control everything from approaching my heart. I call that response denial—a strategy that protects me from awareness and in doing so, perpetuates injustice. When three-month-old Raleigh arrived, I received photos on a regular basis. None so thrilled me than the photo of her in a onesie, bright yellow, green-leafed lemons on the vine. She wears a yellow bow on the top of her head. Her arms are outstretched. Her hands are gently clenched as she stares directly at the camera. The photo of Olivia (Livi), the older of the two, sparked my safeguarding instincts. Sitting, confidently in a","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"152 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47338710","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}
Darren D. Moore, Charles Williams, Clinton E Cooper
{"title":"Pastoral Leaders Perceptions of Mental Health and Relational Concerns within Faith Based Organizations","authors":"Darren D. Moore, Charles Williams, Clinton E Cooper","doi":"10.1177/15423050221081476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221081476","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes, beliefs, and perspectives of pastoral leaders regarding mental health and relational concerns within Faith-Based Organizations (FBO). As a follow-up to a previous study (Moore et al., 2016), the authors intended to gain insight regarding how pastoral leaders view their role within their organizations related to promoting sound mental health and relational health. Utilizing a qualitative description, authors disseminated a survey to 12 pastoral leaders to complete. Three themes emerged from their responses, which included: (1) Defining mental health; (2) The role of pastoral leaders in mental health; and (3) Mental health needs in pastoral leadership. In the study, investigators discuss clinical implications and provide recommendations regarding how pastoral leaders and Faith- Based Organizations may address the topic of mental health and relational health among its constituents. We believe this research is relevant to the readers of this journal as it contributes to a discussion about pastoral leaders and mental health, as well as how pastoral leaders’ perception of mental health may impact how they discuss this topic within their own organizations. Furthermore, for readers who are clinicians, this study contributes to the body of knowledge about what pastoral leaders and constituents may need, as one considers opportunities for collaboration.","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"80 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48967517","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}
Csaba Szilagyi, Alexander Tartaglia, Patricia K Palmer, David W Fleenor, Elizabeth Jackson-Jordan, Sarah Knoll Sweeney, James E Slaven
{"title":"COVID-19 and Clinical Pastoral Education: How ACPE Educators Pivoted Amid the Pandemic.","authors":"Csaba Szilagyi, Alexander Tartaglia, Patricia K Palmer, David W Fleenor, Elizabeth Jackson-Jordan, Sarah Knoll Sweeney, James E Slaven","doi":"10.1177/15423050211073572","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15423050211073572","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) programs faced extraordinary challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how ACPE-certified educators responded to maintain program delivery. Survey results (<i>n</i> = 210) suggested a substantial and abrupt increase in remote delivery for CPE instruction and supervised clinical practice, primarily driven by those previously fully in-person. Respondents reported abrupt changes impacted 1152 students. Participants rated their utilization and helpfulness of professional, organizational, and technology resources during the pivot and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"37-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8926918/pdf/10.1177_15423050211073572.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39935432","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":"How the Military Context Shapes Spiritual Care Interventions by Military Chaplains.","authors":"Theo Pleizier, Carmen Schuhmann","doi":"10.1177/15423050221076462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221076462","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spiritual care interventions depend upon the context in which care is provided, its institutional setting and the actors involved. In order to understand the relationship between interventions in spiritual care and the context in which care is provided, we study the spiritual interventions of military chaplains against the background of the armed forces. In our study, we demonstrate that the military context needs its own conceptualization to understand the pastoral practices of military chaplains. This article uses a qualitative comparative methodology and is based upon 13 case studies that have been generated over the course of five years by a team of eight military chaplains within the framework of the Dutch Case Study Project. The analysis results in four concepts that describe the relationship between spiritual care practices and the context of the armed forces in more detail: structuring pastoral availability, positioning within the military environment, existential negotiation of being human and being a soldier and transforming military time. We conclude that the study of spiritual care in context leads to a contextualized understanding of spiritual care practices and stimulates comparison of pastoral care practices across contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"4-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39751375","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":"Journal Keeping; Why it does Not Always Work.","authors":"David George Rinaldi","doi":"10.1177/15423050221075024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050221075024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44361,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling","volume":"76 1","pages":"70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39923610","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}