SA2-02 “Brushstrokes of the Soul: Exploring the Intersection of Art Therapy and Spiritual Care”
Presented by Thomas McDorr
Overview
Art therapy in spiritual care offers a profound means of self-expression and reflection, facilitating deeper connection with one’s inner self and spiritual beliefs. It allows individuals to explore and articulate complex emotions and experiences that might be difficult to convey verbally. Through creative processes, art therapy can promote healing by uncovering spiritual insights and fostering a sense of peace and understanding. It also provides a non-threatening space for individuals to confront and process existential questions and personal growth. Ultimately, art therapy can enhance spiritual well-being by integrating emotional and spiritual dimensions into the healing journey
Handout Included: NO
SA2-03 Building Resilient Teams: Developing Effective Staff Support Programs in Healthcare
Presented by Rev. Jeannie Chapman
Overview
1. Recognize and integrate the essential elements of an effective staff support program into their own healthcare settings, including mental health resources, peer support systems, and professional development opportunities.2. Develop and Execute Practical Strategies: Create actionable plans for developing and implementing staff support programs, utilizing practical strategies and examples to address the unique needs of their healthcare environment.3. Cultivate a Supportive Work Culture: Foster a culture of support and resilience within their organization by applying strategies to promote open communication, build trust, and enhance staff well-being, thereby improving overall staff satisfaction and effectiveness.
Handout Included: NO
SA2-04 Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: How Chaplains Fill Critical Gaps in Hospitals in Ways That Don’t Get Measured
Presented by Robert Klitzman
Overview
This workshop draws on recent qualitative studies on chaplains, doctors and patients to examine how chaplains face various challenges and play a range of roles that commonly do not get measured in standard quantitative assessments. In particular, chaplains, especially initially in their careers, may wrestle with patients’ rejection and anger, and ending relationships with patients and families. Chaplains also however, often bring fresh perspectives to medical teams, mediating conflicts among patients, family members and providers, uncovering medically-important information from patients that otherwise gets missed, developing and using rituals to aid patients and staff, and serving on key institutional committees.
Handout Included: NO
SA2-05 Human Suffering in Perspective: Understanding Islamic Teachings on Life and Death
Presented by Taqwa Mahrani Surapati
Overview
Broaden their approach in understanding suffering from the second major religion of the world. The lecture would include themes of suffering, in depth discussion of Islamic tenets, and would showcase practical clinical cases from Muslims and non-Muslim patients, interventions that could improve quality of care. Presentation would include a graph event flow of suffering to promote transformation with active participation, substantial for patient’s resiliency. This workshop also can make the chaplain a source of comfort and peace for staff morale, able to pull many resources to explain suffering to IDT especially nursing team.
Handout Included: YES
SA2-06 “If You’re Only Looking for Sunflowers, You Might Miss the Daisies”: New Paradigms in Pediatric Spiritual Assessment
Presented by Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins and Amanda Kie Borchik
Overview
Spiritual care for hospitalized children, adolescents, and young adults requires a specialized approach that differs from care for adults. Existing spiritual assessment tools are developed for adult care and focused on belief or spiritual struggle/distress. Pediatric chaplains need an evidence-based spiritual assessment approach, based on a strengths-based model that originates in pediatric care and honors the experiential, relational nature of children’s spirituality in the context of the whole family. After gathering a panel of international experts on pediatric spiritual care and assessment, the results of this project provide a broad overview of the state of spiritual assessment development and utilization within pediatric spiritual care and a new working definition for pediatric spiritual assessment.
Handout Included: NO
SA2-07 Mapping Spiritual Care in Cancer Centers (R)
Presented by Bronwen Jones, Kelsey White, George Fitchett, and Petra Sprik
Overview
This workshop will present the results of a research project that conducted focus groups with 13 chaplains at 13 unique cancer centers in the U.S. The study gathered information about how these cancer centers were staffed for spiritual care, cancer centers’ approaches to screening for spiritual distress, spiritual care documentation, and how chaplain collaborated with and supported clinical staff. The project team also engaged with chaplains about the common challenges they face as well as their vision for the future of spiritual care in outpatient cancer centers. We will present these results as well as engage attendees about their experiences, challenges, and goals.
Handout Included: NO
SA2-08 Pilot Project: Staffing Algorithm for Spiritual Care Departments
Presented by Shirley Johannsen, Leslie Smith, and Dan Roberts
Overview
Participants will be able to understand the basic financial reports used to measure hospitals at a business/financial level and use that data in calculating and comparing spiritual care staffing levels for their hospitals. This algorithm helps gaps in staffing become visible. This pilot project was brought as a poster at the 2024 APC Conference, and several attendees requested it return as a workshop at the 2025 APC Conference. Updated 2025 data will be included, giving 2yrs worth of data from Baylor Scott & White Health for comparison. Participants will also gain wisdom in telling the story of their department along with the data, to provide a whole picture of their ministry during budget meetings.
Handout Included: NO
SA2-09 Portraits, Photographs, and Spiritual Care
Presented by Jamar Turner
Overview
This workshop will discuss critical artist intervention for the care of souls. It will utilize artist interviews as well as art pieces to develop a Black artist aesthetic that seeks to disrupt cultural violence against Black bodies in general but Black men specifically. Then we will analyze these interventions through the field of visual studies and race by examining key terms like “looking,” “seeking,” and “gazing” to discuss origin and social construction which is preliminary in disrupting cultural violence rooted in such gazes. Finally, we will translate new looking practices into spiritual care interventions for actual people integrating Turner’s Care Ethic of Revision or womanist care for Black men theory and Black artist aesthetic. We presume that this critical artist intervention is rooted in pre-womanist art care practices ( the integration of Black Women’s art care practices during the Black Arts Movement and Chapman-Lape’s Womanist Care Paradigm) creates for us a care for Black men that embraces beauty while also being transformative, intersectional, oppression sensitive, and subversive while supporting Black women’s survival and flourishing.
Handout Included: NO
SA2-10 The Art of Chaplaincy and the Artist formerly known as Prince
Presented by Chaplain Nikki Kleinberg
Overview
Participate in a multi-sensory tour of Prince Rogers Nelson’s spirituality, catalog, and fanbase. Born in Minneapolis, Ƭ̵̬̊ (The Artist Formerly known as Prince), is one of many to become a dynamic symbol for millions around the world. Chaplains, care-recipients and interdisciplinary colleagues express and connect around personal feelings, experiences and worldview through cultural expressions, and Chaplains can lean into pop-culture references to build rapport, accompany and/or understand others. We will center our study on Prince in a way that increases participants’ ability to respectfully explore many forms of cultural expression as bridges of connection for one-to-one or group settings.
Handout Included: YES
SA2-11 The Importance of Cultural Immersion for Chaplains (R)
Presented by Beth Muehlhausen, Jonatan Amaya Villa, and Charles Abuyeka
Overview
Chaplains are expected to care for persons from an increasingly diverse cultural/ethnic landscape while instances of discrimination are on the rise. Houston Methodist has created a cultural exchange program with chaplaincy students from Mexico and the United States as a means for increasing their confidence and competence in dealing with persons from various cultures and ethnicities. Findings from a qualitative research project evaluating this program and the impact on the students’ chaplaincy will be discussed along with implications for all chaplains in achieving cultural humility.
Handout Included: NO
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