These pages highlight articles of special interest not only for researchers but for CPE educators and students in general. The articles are intended to encourage discussion among chaplains and to suggest potential resources for further investigation.  

NOTE: Article-of-the-Month pages written prior to May 2018 were done as part of the former ACPE Research Network.

• May 2023 - 
  TOPIC: Creating a Standardized Spiritual Screening for Chaplain Referrals through the EMR

• APRIL 2023 - 
  TOPIC: Insights from Chaplains' Journals about the Effects of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• MARCH 2023 - 
  TOPIC: Benchmarking Spiritual Care Departments' Support of Hospital Staff

• FEBRUARY 2023 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains and Telechaplaincy: Best Practices, Strengths, Weaknesses

• JANUARY 2023 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains and the Complexity of Exiting Patients' Rooms and Ending Relationships

• DECEMBER 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Perspectives on Standardizing Spiritual Assessments

• NOVEMBER 2022 - 
  TOPIC: The Perceived Impact of Being a Chaplain-Researcher on Professional Practice

• OCTOBER 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Benchmarking Spiritual Care Departments' Staffing and Activities

• SEPTEMBER 2022 - 
  TOPIC: How Hospital Chaplains Develop and Use Rituals to Address Medical Staff Distress

• AUGUST 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health: Evidence Statements and Outcomes

• JULY 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Planning and Goal Orientations for End-of-Life Care Conversations

• JUNE 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Hospital Chaplains' Communication with Patients: Characteristics, Functions and Potential Benefits

• MAY 2022 - 
  TOPIC: The Spiritual Experience of Dementia from the Health Care Provider Perspective

• APRIL 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Organizational and Business Models That Underlie the Provision of Spiritual Care

• MARCH 2022 - 
  TOPIC: The Lasting Impact of Students' Clinical Pastoral Education Experiences

• FEBRUARY 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Empathy: Its Importance, Functions, Downsides & Limitations --Insights from Humanist Chaplains

• JANUARY 2022 - 
  TOPIC: Compassion Rounds: Experiences of Chaplains, Clinicians, and Family Members on a Neonatal ICU

• DECEMBER 2021 - 
  TOPIC: APC and NACC Self-Study of Board Certification of Professional Chaplains

• NOVEMBER 2021 - 
  TOPIC: A Qualitative Study of Spirituality and Vicarious Trauma among Trauma Clinicians

• OCTOBER 2021 - 
  TOPIC: A Question of "Propositional Knowledge" in CPE Education

• SEPTEMBER 2021 - 
  TOPIC: Preparation, Completion, and Existential Quality of Life in Palliative Care Cancer Patients

• AUGUST 2021 - 
  TOPIC: Religious and Spiritual Struggles among Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults

• JULY 2021 - 
  TOPIC: A Survey of Chaplains in the US on Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria

• JUNE 2021 - 
  TOPIC: An Outcome Oriented and Research Informed Spiritual Care Assessment and Documentation Form

• MAY 2021 - 
  TOPIC: Patients' and Loved Ones' Expectations of Chaplain Services

• APRIL 2021 - 
  TOPIC: An International Survey about How Chaplains Were Affected by the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• MARCH 2021 - 
  TOPIC: Improving End of Life Cancer Outcomes through a Community Spiritual Care Advocate Program

• FEBRUARY 2021 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Involvement in Advance Care Planning

• JANUARY 2021 - 
  TOPIC: Hearing Spiritually Significant Voices: A Phenomenological Survey and Taxonomy

• DECEMBER 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Can Outcome Research Respect the Integrity of Chaplaincy? A review of Outcome Studies

• NOVEMBER 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Palliative Chaplain Spiritual Assessment Progress Notes

• OCTOBER 2020 - 
  TOPIC: What Chaplains Wish Nurses Knew About Them

• SEPTEMBER 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Examining a Clinical Model for Patient Spiritual Journeys in Supportive and Palliative Care

• AUGUST 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telephone-Based Chaplaincy Intervention

• JULY 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Interfaith Chaplaincy in Palliative Care in Japan

• JUNE 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Interactions with Chaplains and Nursing Staff Outcomes

• MAY 2020 - 
  TOPICS: 1) Challenges and Enablers of Spiritual Care for Family Members of ICU Patients, and 2) Bereavement Support on the Frontline of COVID-19

• APRIL 2020 - 
  TOPIC: "A Moment in the Life of a SARS Chaplain": A Reflection to Stir Thinking about COVID-19

• MARCH 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Attitudes and Behaviors that Differentiate Clergy with Positive Mental Health from Those with Burnout

• FEBRUARY 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Development of a Clinical Guide for Identifying Spiritual Distress in ICU Family Members

• JANUARY 2020 - 
  TOPIC: Healthcare Chaplains' Perspectives on Nurse-Chaplain Collaboration

• DECEMBER 2019 - 
  TOPIC: Qualitative Study Exploring Cancer Patients' Spirituality and Its Place in the Medical setting

• NOVEMBER 2019 - 
  TOPIC: Impact of Belief in Miracles on Understanding News of Disease Progression

• OCTOBER 2019 - 
  TOPIC: The Role of the Chaplain as an ICU Patient Navigator

• SEPTEMBER 2019 - 
  TOPIC: A Quantifiable Assessment of Spiritual Concerns of Adult Palliative Care Patients Near the End of Life: the PC-7

• AUGUST 2019 - 
  TOPIC: The Accuracy of Measures in Screening Adults for Spiritual Suffering in Health Care Settings

• JULY 2019 - 
  TOPIC: Use of the Spiritual Development Framework in Conducting Spirituality & Health Research with Adolescents

• JUNE 2019 - 
  TOPIC: A Spiritual Care and Assessment Intervention (SCAI) Framework to Support ICU Family Members/Surrogates

• MAY 2019 - 
  TOPIC: Educational Intervention of an Information Card to Increase Acceptance of Chaplaincy Services

• APRIL 2019 - 
  TOPIC: The Effect of Trauma on Religious Beliefs

• MARCH 2019 - 
  TOPIC: Interprofessional Models for Shared Decision Making: The Role of the Health Care Chaplain

• FEBRUARY 2019 - 
  TOPIC: Distress and Self-Care among Chaplains Working in Palliative Care

• JANUARY 2019 - 
  TOPIC: Patient Reported Outcomes of Pastoral Care in a Hospital Setting (Using the Lothian PROM)

• DECEMBER 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Coping of Surrogate Decision-Makers for Hospitalized Older Adults

• NOVEMBER 2018 - 
  TOPIC: The Spiritual Event of Serious Illness --Insights from the Religion & Spirituality in Cancer Care (RSCC) Study

• OCTOBER 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Using Patient-Reported Religious/Spiritual Concerns to Identify Patients Who Accept Chaplain Interventions in an Outpatient Oncology Setting

• SEPTEMBER 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Veterans Administration Chaplains' Understandings of, and Interventions Related to, Moral Injury

• AUGUST 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Adapting the Advocate Health Care Taxonomy of Chaplaincy for a Pediatric Hospital Context

• JULY 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Factors Predicting Burnout among Chaplains

• JUNE 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Two legacy articles exploring the effect/effectiveness of CPE

• MAY 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Case Study of a Chaplain as the Mediator between the Patient and the Interdisciplinary Team in Ethical Decision Making

• APRIL 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality And Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery

• MARCH 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Assessing and Providing for the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs of Burn Patients

• FEBRUARY 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Silence as an Element of Care

• JANUARY 2018 - 
  TOPIC: Stereotypes of Religious Professionals

• DECEMBER 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplain Documentation as Performance Improvement

• NOVEMBER 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Conversation Game to Help Prepare Chaplains for End-of-Life Discussions

• OCTOBER 2017 - 
  TOPIC: State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research

• SEPTEMBER 2017 - 
  TOPIC: God Imagery and Affective Outcomes in a Spiritually Integrative Inpatient Program

• AUGUST 2017 - 
  TOPIC: A Test of Spiritual AIM (Spiritual Assessment & Intervention Model)

• JULY 2017 - 
  TOPIC: How Chaplains Are Seen by Parents of Hospitalized Children

• JUNE 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Perceptions of Chaplains' Value and Impact within Hospital Care Teams

• MAY 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Analysis of Family Medicine Residents' Journal Reflections: The "Inner Life" of Physicians

• APRIL 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Roles that Religion May Play in Ethics Committee Consultations Regarding Life-Sustaining Treatment

• MARCH 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Profile of Chaplains Working In Palliative Care in the US

• FEBRUARY 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Qualitative Analysis of a Chaplain-Led Intervention for Patients with Brain Cancer

• JANUARY 2017 - 
  TOPIC: Critical Care Nurses' Perceptions of and Experiences with Chaplains

• DECEMBER 2016 - 
  TOPIC: How Families Find Strength, Comfort, and Purpose in Spirituality after Homicide

• NOVEMBER 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Determining Best Methods to Screen for Religious/Spiritual Distress

• OCTOBER 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Descriptive Study of Chaplain Notes in the ICU

• SEPTEMBER 2016 - 
  TOPIC: A Novel Picture Guide to Improve Spiritual Care and Reduce Anxiety in Mechanically Ventilated Adults in the ICU

• AUGUST 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Efficacy of a One-Day Workshop to Equip Front-Line Clinicians to be Spiritual Care Generalists

• JULY 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Advancing Our Understanding of Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Behavioral Medicine

• JUNE 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Diary Study of the Chaplain's Role in the Care of the Seriously Ill in an Urban Acute Care Hospital

• MAY 2016 - 
  TOPIC: A Post-Code Pause for Staff after Resuscitations --A Process Potentially Involving Chaplains

• APRIL 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Behavioral Outcomes of Supervisory Education in the ACPE

• MARCH 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Peace as a Predictor of 5-Year Mortality in Congestive Heart Failure Patients, Using a Single Item Assessment of Inner Peace or Harmony

• FEBRUARY 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Factors That Influence Chaplains' Suicide Intervention Behavior in the Army

• JANUARY 2016 - 
  TOPIC: Issues Post-Stroke for Muslim People in Maintaining the Practice of Salat

• DECEMBER 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains on the Medical Team: A Qualitative Analysis of an Interprofessional Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents and Chaplain Interns

• NOVEMBER 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Increasing the Number of Palliative Care Outpatients Receiving Spiritual Assessment

• OCTOBER 2015 - 
  TOPIC: The Importance of Faith in FACIT-Sp Assessments of Quality-of-Life in Caner Survivors

• SEPTEMBER 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and the Recovery of Quality of Life Following Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

• AUGUST 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Summary Analysis and Update on Religion, Spirituality, and Health Research

• JULY 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Patient and Family Perceptions of Chaplain Presence during Post-Trauma Care

• JUNE 2015 - 
  TOPIC: A Chaplain-Led Spiritual Life Review Process for Patients with Brain Cancers and Progressive Neurologic Conditions

• MAY 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Teaching Non-Chaplain Providers to Integrate Spiritual Care into Their Practice

• APRIL 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Dignity Therapy

• MARCH 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Relationship with God, Loneliness, Anger, and Symptom Distress in Patients with Cancer Who Are Near the End of Life

• FEBRUARY 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Visits and Patient Satisfaction

• JANUARY 2015 - 
  TOPIC: Disclosure of Near-Death Experiences

• DECEMBER 2014 - 
  TOPIC: The Spiritual Use of Images of Artworks to Facilitate Conversation with Hospitalized Patients

• NOVEMBER 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Review of the Role of Religion/Spirituality in Mental Health

• OCTOBER 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Negative Religious Coping and Suicidal Ideation in Advanced Cancer Patients

• SEPTEMBER 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Association of Spiritual Care Providers' Activities with Family Members' Satisfaction with Care after a Death in the ICU

• AUGUST 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Introductory Overview of Qualitative Research Methodology for Chaplains

• JULY 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Coping in Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis

• JUNE 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Report of the International Consensus Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care

• MAY 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Veterans Affairs Chaplains' Attitudes about Their Utilization for Smoking Cessation Interventions

• APRIL 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains and the Practice of Prayer across Multiple Faiths

• MARCH 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Research Methodology: Research Designs and Making Causal Inferences from Health Care Studies

• FEBRUARY 2014 - 
  TOPIC: The Shadowing of Chaplains as a Component of Medical Education

• JANUARY 2014 - 
  TOPIC: Positive and Negative Effects of a Deferring Style of Religious Coping among Breast Cancer Patients

• DECEMBER 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Transcendent Language and the Measurement of "Spiritual Fitness"

• NOVEMBER 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Pathways from Religion to Advance Care Planning: Beliefs about Control Over Length of Life and End-of-Life Values

• OCTOBER 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Professional Quality of Life -- Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout -- among VHA Chaplains

• SEPTEMBER 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Near Death Experiences and Spiritual Well-Being

• AUGUST 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Nurse Responses to Patient Expressions of Spiritual Distress

• JULY 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Negotiating Health-Related Uncertainties: Biomedical and Religious Sources of Information and Support

• JUNE 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Model Practices for Teaching Research in CPE

• MAY 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Communities' Support to Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations with EoL Medical Care

• APRIL 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Anger toward God among Family Members of Hospice Patients

• MARCH 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and Physicians' Interpretations of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

• FEBRUARY 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Beliefs and Practices in End-Stage Renal Disease

• JANUARY 2013 - 
  TOPIC: Piloting a Two-Question Nursing Screen and Referral Protocol for Patient Spiritual Distress

• DECEMBER 2012 - 
  TOPIC: The Impact of Illness upon Faith (II-Faith) Measure

• NOVEMBER 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Use of Spirituality after an Adult Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis

• OCTOBER 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Unmet Spiritual Care Needs and Their Impact for Advanced Cancer Inpatients

• SEPTEMBER 2012 - 
  TOPIC: A National Study of Chaplaincy Services and End-of-Life Outcomes

• AUGUST 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Why Do Research on Spirituality and Health, and What Do the Results Mean? --A Commentary by Harold Koenig

• JULY 2012 - 
  TOPIC: The Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients (SNAP)

• JUNE 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Overview of Spirituality in the Cancer Trajectory

• MAY 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Sacred Healing Stories Told at the End of Life

• APRIL 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Educating Chaplains for Research Literacy: A National Survey of CPE Residency Programs

• MARCH 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Secular Reverence and Hospital Length-of-Stay

• JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2012 - 
  TOPIC: Two Major Reviews of Research on Chaplaincy

• DECEMBER 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Views of God as Benevolent/Forgiving or Punishing/Judgmental Predictive of HIV Disease Progression

• NOVEMBER 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Access to Medical Records

• OCTOBER 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Social Support in a Sample of Chaplains

• SEPTEMBER 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Study of Spiritual Distress in Advanced Cancer Inpatients, Using a Chaplain's Subjective Assessment

• AUGUST 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Attention to Patients' Religious/Spiritual Concerns and Effect on Patient Satisfaction

• JULY 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Perspectives on Chaplaincy from Physicians and Chaplains

• JUNE 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Support of Cancer Patients' Spiritual Needs and Associations with Medical Care Costs at the End of Life

• MAY 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains and Disenfranchised Grief

• APRIL 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Care Competencies for Family Medicine Resident Education

• MARCH 2011 - 
  TOPIC: How Muslim and Non-Muslim Chaplains Serve Muslim Patients

• FEBRUARY 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Presence and Patients' Hopefulness at the End of Life

• JANUARY 2011 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Reconfigurations of Self after a Myocardial Infarction

• DECEMBER 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Current Status of Measures of Spirituality

• NOVEMBER 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Workshop Changing Chaplains' Feelings about Research

• OCTOBER 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Using a Peer Consultation Model to Enhance Supervisor Development

• SEPTEMBER 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Proximal Intercessory Prayer

• AUGUST 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Evaluation of the FICA Tool for Spiritual Assessment

• JULY 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Differentiating Spiritual Experiences from Psychoses (plus, Spirituality & Health Research from Brazil)

• JUNE 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Factors that Influence Surrogate Decision-Makers' Perceptions of Prognosis

• MAY 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Forgiveness as a Mediator in Religion-Health Associations

• APRIL 2010 - 
  TOPIC: A Spiritually Based Intervention for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• MARCH 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality of Childhood Cancer Survivors

• FEBRUARY 2010 - 
  TOPIC: When Do Nurses Refer Patients to Professional Chaplains?

• JANUARY 2010 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Care and Associations with Medical Care and Quality of Life Near Death

• DECEMBER 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Longing and Spirituality in the Lived Experience of Adolescents with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

• NOVEMBER 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Wagle Health-Specific Religiousness Scale (and a Spirituality & Cancer Bibliography)

• OCTOBER 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Meditation, Telomeres, and Cellular Longevity

• SEPTEMBER 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Belief in a Concerned God and Response to Treatment for Depression

• AUGUST 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and Support for Family Presence at Resuscitations

• JULY 2009 - 
  TOPIC: JCOPE Measure of Religious Coping in Jewish Populations

• JUNE 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Two New Overviews on Religion/Spirituality and Mental Health

• MAY 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and Turning Points in the Lives of Persons with HIV

• APRIL 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Coping and the Use of Intensive Life-Prolonging Care Near Death

• MARCH 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Effect of Pastoral Care Services on Religious Coping and Other Responses to CABG Surgery

• FEBRUARY 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Prayer Books, in which Hospital Patients/Visitors/Staff Write Prayers

• JANUARY 2009 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Struggle, Death Concerns, Depression, and Terror Management Theory

• DECEMBER 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Religion, Risk, and Medical Decision-Making at the End of Life

• NOVEMBER 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Mystical Experience in the Context of Health Care

• OCTOBER 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Effects of a Spiritual Meditation on Pain and Issues of Migraineurs

• SEPTEMBER 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Overview of the Neurobiology of Spirituality

• AUGUST 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Effect of a Guided Imagery and Music Intervention on Spirituality and Anxiety in a Cardiac Population

• JULY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: The Provision of Chaplaincy Services in US Hospitals, 1980-2003

• JUNE 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Violently Injured Patients Seen in the Emergency Department

• MAY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: The Spiritual Transformation Scale, and Assessing Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Decline in Cancer Patients

• APRIL 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Gap Analysis of Cultural and Religious Needs of Hospitalized Patients

• MARCH 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Patients' Expectations of Hospital Chaplains

• FEBRUARY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain

• JANUARY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Sense Making in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic Disease

• DECEMBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and the Experience of American Indians Receiving Hemodialysis

• NOVEMBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Illness Trajectories and Spirituality

• OCTOBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: An Overview of Research on Forgiveness

• SEPTEMBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: "Vicarious Resilience" --A Concept with Implications for Chaplains

• AUGUST 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality/Religion and Depression

• JULY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Three Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Spirituality

• JUNE 2007 - 
  TOPIC: The Influence of Spirituality/Religion on Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Patients

• MAY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Patients' Conceptualizations of Spirituality and Religion

• APRIL 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Cerebral Blood Flow During Glossolalia

• MARCH 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Do Pastoral Care Providers Recognize Nurses as Spiritual Care Providers?

• FEBRUARY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and Eating Disorders

• JANUARY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Involvement with Issues of Physical Pain

• DECEMBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing

• NOVEMBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Matters of Spirituality at the End of Life in the PICU

• OCTOBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Neuroscience and Emotion: the Research of Joseph LeDoux on the Amygdala

• SEPTEMBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: The Influence of Awareness of Terminal Illness on Spiritual Well-Being

• AUGUST 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Patients' Attitudes about Being Placed on Religion Lists for Clergy Visitation

• JULY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: "Spiritual Modeling" --Learning Theory and Its Empirical Research

• JUNE 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Patients'/Families' Use of the Internet for Spiritual Support

• MAY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Research into Near-Death Experiences

• APRIL 2006 - 
  TOPIC: An Ethnographic Study of Chaplains in a Pastoral Care Department with a CPE Intern Program

• MARCH 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and Bipolar Affective Disorder

• FEBRUARY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: "Are You at Peace?": One Item to Probe Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life

• JANUARY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Religious and Non-Religious Coping in Lung Transplant Candidates: Does Adding God to the Picture Tell Us More?

• DECEMBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Effects Spiritual vs. Secular Meditation on (Physical) Pain Outcomes

• NOVEMBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Efficacy of Frequent Mantram Repetition

• OCTOBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Physician Perspectives and Characteristics Regarding Religion/Spirituality

• SEPTEMBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Role of Spirituality in Weight Management

• AUGUST 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Heritability of Religiousness (and Religiousness as a Sixth Factor of Personality)

• JULY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: A Field Analysis of Spirituality, Religion and Health

• JUNE 2005 - 
  TOPIC: New Spiritual Assessment Instruments

• MAY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: How Spirituality May Be Affected by Trauma

• APRIL 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Beliefs in an Afterlife and Their Health-Related Effects

• MARCH 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Positive Spiritual Outcomes from Surviving Haematological Malignancies

• FEBRUARY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Clergy and the Provision of End-of-Life Care (--with implications for pastoral education)

• JANUARY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Conceptualization of Religion and Epistemological Issues in Research on Religion & Health

• DECEMBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 3: The Spirituality Index of Well-Being Scale

• NOVEMBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Struggle During Illness

• OCTOBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Needs and Patient Satisfaction

• SEPTEMBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Physician-Patient Interaction Regarding Spirituality

• AUGUST 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Clergy as Physician/Community Resources

• JULY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Experiences of Survivors of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation (including deriving reassurance from "angelic encounters")

• JUNE 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Research on the Meaning and Use of the Terminology of Spiritual Pain / Existential Pain

• MAY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: A Study of Chaplains' Interventions and Referrals at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

• APRIL 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients and Religious Coping (with additional thoughts on spirituality and immune system functioning)

• MARCH 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 2: Studies Using the Spiritual Well-Being Scale

• FEBRUARY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 1: Spiritual Well Being and the FACIT-Sp Measure

• JANUARY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Background to Fetzer's Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality

• DECEMBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Findings from Quantitative Research and the Work of David B. Larson, M.D.

• NOVEMBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Studies on Remote Intercessory Prayer: Methodology and Assumptions

• OCTOBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: An Ethnographic Study of CPE/Chaplaincy in the Contemporary Hospital Setting

• SEPTEMBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Overview of Research-Related Issues in the Field of the Psychology of Religion

• AUGUST 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Post-Termination Phase of Psychoanalysis--with Implications for CPE

• JULY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Attitudes Regarding Disclosure of Medical Errors

• JUNE 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Muslim Patient Issues and the Effect of Illness/Treatment on Religious Practice

• MAY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Four Important Overview Articles on the State-of-the-Science in Spirituality and Health

• APRIL 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Coping and Chronic Illness (with a bib. introducing religious coping)

• MARCH 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Self-Transformation and Breast Cancer Survivors (with a bib. re: spiritual risk and qualitative research)

• FEBRUARY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: The Ironson-Woods Spirituality/Religiousness Index and Persons Living with HIV/AIDS

• JANUARY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Private Prayer, Optimism, and Cardiac Patients (with a bib. re: spirituality and cardiac issues)

• DECEMBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: Systems-Centered Group Therapy: Research Bases and Practical Issues

• NOVEMBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplain Supervisors and Research: Insights from a Personal Journey into the World of Research

• OCTOBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Needs and End-of-Life Care

• SEPTEMBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: The Definition and Use of the Term/Concept of Spirituality in the Health Care Literature