Chaplaincy and the Soul of Health and Social Care: Fostering Spiritual Wellbeing in Emerging Paradigms of Care

by Ewan Kelly (Editor), John Swinton (Editor), Tim Bennison (Contribution by), Don Bryant (Contribution by), Eva Buelens (Contribution by)

Overview

Gathering together thoughts and visions of experienced practitioners, academics, educators and strategic leaders from around the world, this edited volume sheds light on the nature of chaplaincy and its role and significance within ever-changing contemporary healthcare systems.

A wide range of issues central to spiritual care delivery are covered, including reflections on what it feels like to be cared for by a chaplain through illness; the nature of chaplaincy as a profession; and how chaplains can engage with healthcare institutions in ways that have integrity yet are also deeply spiritual. The focus throughout is that chaplaincy should not only be guidance for people in distress, as a form of crisis intervention, but is rather about helping to promote wellbeing and enhance people's quality of life.

Where specialisms tend to fragment systems and individuals, this book seeks to show that true health and wellbeing can only be found through a holistic approach, and shows how chaplaincy can bring this to the table. This book is for anyone who recognises the centrality of spirituality for wellbeing, and wishes to see what that might look like in practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784504984
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	12/19/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ewan Kelly is the former Programme Director for Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in NHS Education for Scotland and founding research co-ordinator of the European Research Institute for Chaplains in Healthcare, based in KU Leuven, Belgium. He currently works freelance as an educator and writer.

John Swinton is Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the University of Aberdeen. He has a background in nursing and healthcare chaplaincy and has researched and published extensively in practical theology, mental health, spirituality and human wellbeing.

Carlo Leget is Professor in Care Ethics and Endowed Professor of Spiritual and Ethical Questions in Palliative Care at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, Netherlands. He is Vice President of the European Association for Palliative Care. He lives in Zeist, Netherlands.
Steve Nolan, Ph.D., is a palliative care chaplain at Princess Alice Hospice, Surrey, UK, where he works daily with people who are dying, supporting them and their families. He regularly teaches spiritual care to students visiting the hospice and is a tutor on the MTh in Chaplaincy Studies at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, part of Cardiff University.
Stephen Pattison is Head of School at Cardiff University's School of Religious and Theological Studies, and has previously lectured in theology at the University of Birmingham and University of Edinburgh, among others, and in health and social welfare at the Open University. He is a prolific author of articles and books on the subject of practical theology.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Ewan Kelly and John Swinton

Part 1: The essence of healthcare chaplaincy? What does spiritual need feel like?
1. Living with a chronic long-term condition: 'I can reflect with chaplains about things I cannot share with others.' - Eva Buelens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
2. Experience of spiritual distress in an acute setting: Living with perinatal loss - Daniel Robert Nuzum (Healthcare Chaplain and Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor, Cork University Hospital, Ireland; Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Ireland)
3. What does spiritual need feel like? Experience of chaplaincy and spiritual care in mental health - Madeleine Parkes (Hospital Chaplaincy Team, Birmingham, UK)

Part 2: The art of chaplaincy: is chaplaincy an art or science?
4. Healthcare chaplaincy as professional artistry - Mark Stobert (Chair of UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy)
5. Different Trains: liminality and the chaplain - Kevin Franz (Former Lead Chaplain for Mental Healthcare, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, UK)
6. The role of science in enhancing spiritual care practice - Daniel H. Grossoehme, Dmin, MS (Staff Scientist, Rebecca D. Considine Research Institute, Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care Center, Akron Children's Hospital, USA)
7. Outcomes in health and social care chaplaincy: core business or problematic necessity? - The Rev. George F. Handzo (Director, Health Services Research & Quality, HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, UK) and Steve Nolan (Princess Alice Hospice, UK)

Part 3: Healthcare professionals? What kind of professionals are chaplains?
8. Charting the journey towards professionalization in the UK - Derek Fraser (Cambridge University Hospitals, UK)
9. We have taken off. Reflections on research and professionalization in healthcare chaplaincy in Europe - Anne Vandenhoeck (KU Leuven, Belgium)
10. Contemporary sustainable building: architecture of chaplaincy and spiritual care - Hans Evers (Head Department of Pastoral Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands)
11. A question of identity: What does it mean for chaplains to be healthcare professionals? - John Swinton

Part 4: Researching Chaplaincy: what research is needed? How can it be grown?
12. Advancing research in healthcare chaplaincy: why, how, who? - George Fitchett (Professor and Director of Research, Department of Religion, Health and Human Values, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
13. The story of the Scottish patient reported outcome measure (PROM): an example of innovation, collaboration and education in chaplaincy research - Professor Austyn Snowden (Chair in Mental Health, Edinburgh Napier University and visiting professor, Leuven University, Belgium) and Iain Telfer (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh)

Part 5: Creative engagements
14. The chaplain and organizational spirituality of church-sponsored healthcare institutions - Neil Pembroke (School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland, Australia) and Raymond Reddicliffe (School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland, Australia)
15. Chaplaincy and its potential contribution to cultural transformation - Dr Kenneth J Donaldson (Consultant Nephrologist and Medical Director at NHS Dumfries and Galloway, UK) and Ewan Kelly
16. Spiritual care and a new art of dying - Carlo Leget (University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands)

Part 6: Caring well, caring spiritually
17: From interventions during ill health to enabling well-being and resilience: Community Chaplaincy Listening (CCL) - Timothy P Bennison (Department of Spiritual Care, NHS Forth Valley, UK)
18: From person-centred to people-centred spiritual care - Jo Kennedy (Faith, health and social care sectors, Scotland, UK) and Ian Stirling (Hospice chaplaincy and spiritual care in Scotland, UK)
19: Co-production and promoting spiritual wellbeing in mental health - Julian Raffay (Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, UK) and Don Bryant (Board of Mental Health Network)

Part 7: Educating chaplains: what do chaplains need to learn to work in and influence 21st century healthcare systems?
20: Formation and the intentional use of self: the chaplain's primary resource - Ewan Kelly
21: Educating and equipping chaplains to practice in new paradigms - The Rev. David W. Fleenor (Director of Education, Center for Spirituality and Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA) and Ewan Kelly

Part 8: Shaping the future
22: Strategic leadership in healthcare chaplaincy - Cheryl Holmes (Chief Executive Officer, Spiritual Health Association, Australia) and Ewan Kelly
23: Future directions - posing and living with questions - Ewan Kelly and John Swinton

Editorial Reviews

Swinton and Kelly have drawn together important voices in spiritual care to produce this timely, stimulating and necessary collection. Here is a 'must read' for anyone involved in Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, helpfully alerting the reader to contemporary questions in a way that will stimulate further thought and debate.

Rev Canon Dr Iain Macritchie

Chaplains and health care leaders from across the globe passionately convey diverse perspectives and bold invitations that are thought provoking and deserving of critical consideration. A must read for front line chaplains and health care leaders confronting chaplaincy care challenges and opportunities in the 21st century.

Stephen D. King

Kelly and Swinton have together produced a milestone publication in Healthcare Chaplaincy. 28 experienced authors, both co-creating and conflicting, address key issues facing Chaplaincy today as healthcare and social paradigms rapidly shift. Many offer important standalone contributions, but together they weave a landscape from which the future shape of our Profession may well emerge.

Dr. Simon Harrison

There is by now absolutely no doubt that the profession of chaplaincy (in an increasingly complex and secular world) is facing a watershed - with an ocean of creativity, relevance and sustainability on one side and a rapidly-drying riverbed of outdated approaches on the other. This new volume is a wide-ranging and well-informed look at the most relevant challenges, as well as possibilities, for influencing which way things will ultimately flow. If you are in the professional chaplaincy field and care even one drop about our future, read this collection.

Rev. Dr. Amy Greene

The voices and needs of patients - the most important focus of chaplaincy in healthcare - are connected with the challenges for the profession of a chaplain. The experiences of patients, chaplaincy practice, outcome-oriented research by chaplains and a theoretical underpinning of the profession are all presented in a unique, patient-centered way, for a broad public.

Simon Evers