SA1.01 – Beyond Kindness: Training Co-Workers In Spiritual Care
Presented by Joy Kaplan DMin BCC, Laurie Jacob MDiv, Jim Ramsey DMin & Greg Tepe MPS
Overview:
To expand the reach of your spiritual care department, it is important to teach “focused sensitivity” to all of the hospital staff to understand the importance of spiritual care, to provide basic spiritual care to all they encounter, to assess for spiritual distress, ensure appropriate coordination for acute spiritual care needs, as well as to properly document in the electronic health record.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the need for partnerships in providing spiritual care to the entire hospital, including patients, families & co-workers
- Understand a model that equips staff with the tools to provide spiritual care – Systemic foundations, educational process, & improvement results
- Improve quality and quantity of spiritual assessments and referrals for your spiritual care department
Level: Beginner
Handout included: YES
SA1.03 – Expanding Chaplain Competencies
Presented by Judith Ragsdale MDiv PhD
Please note: This is an audio recording only. This recording begins approximately 5 minutes after the session originally began.
Overview:
Expanding Chaplain Competencies is an IRB-approved study exploring how religious, spiritual, and humanist adherents make meaning of serious illness, cope, and make medical decisions through the lens of their tradition’s beliefs and practices. The purpose of this study is to help healthcare chaplains and CPE educators develop greater skill providing care for the specific needs and values of those from multiple traditions. This workshop will be a presentation of the results drawn from Buddhist, Humanist, Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, and African Methodist Episcopal Christian. Leader and member participants of each tradition will have approved of these results prior to presentation.
Learning Objectives:
- To present research exploring five religion/spirituality/humanist traditions developing proposed competencies for healthcare chaplains for each tradition
- To propose curriculum elements for each tradition to guide clinically educating religiously/spiritually/humanistically informed, relationally skillful healthcare chaplaincy
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: NO
SA1.04 – Widening the Tent: Chaplaincy in Other Ministry Contexts
Presented by Joe Cotton
Overview:
Many other ministry contexts utilize chaplains, from correctional facilities, to ports, to first responders and beyond. The certification requirements, if any, vary greatly from the more uniform standards of the healthcare industry. And yet, for practitioners in these other fields, our certification organizations still have something crucial to offer. Learn how chaplaincy is unfolding in other environments, what the emerging needs and opportunities are, and how we can support. Join us on the front lines of expanding our tent to include chaplains of every kind.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and flesh out chaplaincy contexts beyond healthcare
- Explore emerging needs, challenges, and opportunities facing chaplains in these contexts
- Articulate ways certification organizations (APC, NACC, NAJC, etc.) can address the unique needs of other practitioners, thus including them in the fold
Level: Beginner
Handout included: NO
SA1.05 – Integrating Principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Interdisciplinary Chaplain Education and Care
Presented by Jennifer Wortmann PhD, Valerie Sanders DMin LMFT BCC & Robin Booth DMin BCC
Overview:
A panel of chaplains and a psychologist, who together facilitate consultation for the Mental Health Integration for Chaplain Services (MHICS) training program, which is embedded in a Doctor of Ministry degree in Integrative Chaplaincy offered through Vanderbilt Divinity School, will: (a) overview the evidence-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model and the interprofessional educational and training models into which it is integrated, and (b) present case material illustrating integration of ACT principles into professional chaplains’ care and into training of CPE students of diverse faith backgrounds.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe principles of the evidence-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model and their relevance for chaplaincy care
- Describe integration of ACT principles in the interprofessional training and formation of professional chaplains
- Describe application of ACT principles within the CPE educational experience
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: YES
SA1.06 – Moral Distress, Injury, And Repair: Self- And Team-Care For Chaplains
Presented by Lori Klein JD BCC
Overview:
Moral distress as experienced by health care workers, including chaplains, is inevitable in healthcare. The goal of this course is to give chaplains tools to recognize moral distress and its causes, experience techniques that can prevent moral distress from evolving into moral injury and burnout, and learn effective strategies for preventing or repairing moral injury in health care systems. Course material draws on recent studies from medical, nursing, and spiritual care literature, and includes insights from mindfulness practices, neuroscience, and critical incident stress management. Participants will be encouraged to share their stories of moral distress and resilience.
Learning Objectives:
- Name at least 3 individual or systemic sources of moral distress or injury that can affect health care workers, including chaplains
- Experience at least three techniques of moral repair and self/staff care
- Name and experience three methods of cultivating moral resilience
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: YES
SA1.07 – Psychedelics And Chaplaincy: Spiritual Care Implications & Opportunities
Presented by Steve Lewis DMin BCC
Overview:
Psychedelic medicines are being widely discussed in culture and clinical practice. As research continues for a variety of medical and mental health conditions, and as legal frameworks regulating psychedelic substances change, it is important that Chaplains are informed and able to provide competent care. Whether you are at bedside providing support for a patient with significant spiritual experiences involving psychedelics, or are interested in more directly offering therapeutic support in the context of psychedelics, this workshop will inform you of spiritual care dynamics common to this field, competencies necessary for this work, and pathways forward in pursuing this specialty.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the current landscape of research in psychedelics and how spiritual care practitioners are involved
- Describe the range of opportunities for chaplains to become involved in psychedelic care
- Describe the competencies necessary for chaplains working in psychedelic care
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: NO
SA1.08 – Qualitative Research – Using Storytelling To Inform Best Practices
Presented by Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW & Christa Chappelle MDiv BCC
Overview:
Chaplaincy is continuing to be elevated as a profession through the use of various research modalities. Qualitative methods with their emphasis on narratives capture the stories of patients, staff and chaplains themselves in regard to the role of spirituality in health care. This workshop will enable participants to become familiar with qualitative research methods and the ways these methodologies inform evidence based spiritual care by highlighting best practices.
Learning Objectives:
- Articulate a beginning understanding of qualitative research methodologies
- To begin to understand how qualitative methods give voice to stories
- To begin to understand the role of qualitative research in evidence based spiritual care
Level: Beginner
Handout included: YES
SA1.09 – Religious, Cultural and Spiritual Support of Muslims and the Islamic Community on Palliative Care
Presented by Yusuf Hasan BCC
Overview:
Islam is one of the fasting growing religions in America; therefore Muslims are one of the fastest-growing populations in the U.S. health system. They bring a mixture of religious, cultural and spiritual concerns to the health care institutions, yet many health care providers, including chaplains and social workers are unfamiliar and ill equipped to meet the needs of this diverse population. This workshop will provide broad, high quality information that will enable the medical staff and other care givers. Especially chaplains and social workers, to engage Muslim patients, families and community around health care issues, including but limited to participating in clinical decision-making such as palliative care treatment, DNR orders, hospice care and end-of-life support and will address what Islam says about health care-related issues and how the health care teams including chaplains and social workers, can address this group’s needs and concerns.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how to differentiate between religious, cultural and spiritual concerns of Muslims
- Apply basic language skills and knowledge of the Muslim religion, cultural and spiritual rituals
- Discuss what leading Islamic authorities , including the Holy Qur’an and prophet Muhammad (PBUH), says about illness
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: YES
SA1.10 – Spiritual Support For Transgender Youth In Healthcare
Presented by Seth Sonneville MDiv MS BCC & Becky Baile Crouse DMin MDiv BCC
Overview:
Elicit support from stakeholders in a multitude of departments and disciplines. How to initiate conversations with team members regarding use of pronouns and the name youth go by. How to facilitate difficult conversations with youth and parents who disagree on name and pronouns due to religious/spiritual concerns. Opportunities for ensuring patients of all ages know that the healthcare institution is supportive of their gender identity and sexual orientation. Develop a proposal to integrate spiritual support into a multidisciplinary pediatric gender clinic team.
Learning Objectives:
- Opportunities for engaging in conversations about pediatric TGNC concerns in healthcare
- Creating a welcoming and hospitable environment in pediatric healthcare
- Integration of Spiritual Support in a pediatric gender clinic
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: YES
SA1.11 – The Intersection of Technology and Reflection to Build a Culture of Staff Support and Inclusion
Presented by Mark Holmes MDiv MARE BCC & Stephen Robinson MDiv
Overview:
In this workshop, learn ways to build staff resiliency, cultivate a culture of inclusivity, and broaden the reach of your spiritual care by leveraging multimedia technology and research. Hear how chaplains impacted the culture of a unit’s day and night shift through intentional staff care initiatives utilizing recorded video reflections and QR codes and measured the impact with staff surveys. We will share our learning and lead interactive workshops to help you create your own video outreach efforts to provide practical and effective staff care.
Learning Objectives:
- Broaden the impact of your staff care and build a culture of inclusivity by leveraging online videos and research surveys
- Understand best practices of basic video production and generating QR codes
- Generate unique ideas and applications for implementing creative staff care at their places of service through interactive brainstorming sessions
Level: Beginner
Handout included: YES
SA1.12 – The Role Of Chaplains In Crisis, Infant Deliveries: Theory And Practice
Presented by Janet Crane SSND DMin BCC & Lyndsay Williams MDiv BCC
Overview:
After over a decade working with mothers and infants, the call for a chaplain in the delivery room and OR during times of crisis was readily apparent. In this workshop, participants will learn how pastoral theory has informed pastoral practice in this unique and sacred space. They will have the opportunity to learn from an experienced chaplain in order to build their own pastoral practice around crisis, infant deliveries.
Learning Objectives:
- Know how to build a pastoral practice in crisis, infant deliveries
- Know how to address practical scenarios in the delivery room
- And/Or have compelling outcomes for the benefits of mom, baby, family, and co-workers
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: YES
SA1.13 – “What About Domain 5?” Chaplains on Palliative Care Teams: A Mixed-Methods Research Study
Presented by Sarah Byrne-Martelli DMin BCC-PCHAC
Overview:
Although spiritual care is a core component of palliative care, chaplaincy staffing and integration in inpatient palliative care teams across the country is inconsistent. This interactive workshop will present early findings from a Cambia Sojourn Scholar-Leader funded research study. We will address chaplains’ professional experiences with team integration (or lack thereof), and we will explore ways to better implement the NCP guidelines for “Domain 5: Spiritual, Religious, and Existential Aspects of Care” within our palliative care teams.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the initial results of a funded national research study on chaplaincy integration
- Identify barriers and facilitators to chaplaincy integration on palliative care team
- Explore creative solutions to improving spiritual care as part of palliative care
Level: Intermediate
Handout included: YES
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