SA1-01 Beyond the Front Lines: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Workplace Violence Against Healthcare Chaplains (R)
Presented by Dana Fachner, David Tyler, and Tusty ten Bensel
Overview
This presentation delves into a mixed methods study exploring workplace violence against healthcare chaplains. Attendees will learn about the study’s design, including how qualitative interviews and the quantitative survey were integrated to provide a comprehensive understanding of chaplains’ experiences and perceptions of violence. The presentation will discuss key findings, highlighting both the prevalence of workplace violence and its impact on chaplains’ professional and personal lives. Participants will engage in a discussion on the implications of these findings for individual well-being, professional practice, policy, and future research.
Handout Included: YES
SA1-02 Colorful Accent: Challenges and Advantages of Being an Immigrant Person of Color in Chaplaincy
Presented by Barson Mahafaly
Overview
I will share about my personal experiences as an immigrant person of color from Madagascar working as a staff chaplain at Allina Health. I will highlight the challenges I have been facing as well as the advantages that my racial and cultural identities have presented to me. I will try to answer the following two questions: What are the types of challenges of doing chaplaincy as an immigrant person of color with English as a second language in the context of the North American healthcare systems? And what are the advantages this identity might bring to chaplaincy?
Handout Included: YES
SA1-03 Expanding the Reporting of Sex and Gender in Chaplaincy Research
Presented by Elian Cox and Patricia Palmer
Overview
When creating a survey for research, it can be difficult to know how to best capture identifying information such as sex and gender in a way that is inclusive to transgender and nonbinary persons. In this session, we will consider how chaplains have measured and reported these indicators in past quantitative research publications and provide recommendations for how the field can further honor those with diverse identities. Chaplains are well positioned to advocate for patients through appropriate identification, and we hope this workshop will inspire practitioners and researchers alike to make inclusion a cornerstone of our work.
Handout Included: YES
SA1-04 Gestalt Soul Care: Tuning Your Soul
Presented by Alexandra MacCracken
Overview
Gestalt Soul Care is an approach and healing catalyst which is a synthesis of Spiritually-integrated Gestalt Modalities, Aesthetic Principles, Coaching, and 12 Step Wisdom. Experience the transformative power of Gestalt Soul Care in this innovative workshop; explore powerful approaches to catalyze spiritual growth and healing. Through guided visual and auditory exercises, discover how deeply interacting with art enriches our connection to the Divine. This integrative approach enhances Presence and an embodied spirituality for Chaplains.
Handout Included: YES
SA1-05 Healthcare Chaplaincy Leadership: Realities, Reimagining and Resources
Presented by Marilyn Barnes, Lindsay Bona, Deborah Ingram, and John Betz
Overview
This workshop will address:1. How leading a chaplaincy organization is not merely an incremental step; it demands a comprehensive understanding of the healthcare landscape and the ability to stay current with emerging trends.2. Building community collaborations and fostering well-being, teamwork and resilience among chaplains, while also ensuring self-care to sustain long-term effectiveness in the role. 3. Understanding institutional priorities to demonstrate the impact of spiritual care on both patient outcomes and team member well-being.4. Managing budgets, collecting and analyzing data, chaplain development, balancing operational needs, educational programs, and providing spiritual care to healthcare leaders.
Handout Included: NO
SA1-06 Integration of Spiritual Care into Staff Wellness
Presented by Cody Alley and Justin Martin
Overview
This workshop will describe the thought process of a paradigm shift of patient care/staff care to “staff care is patient care.” It will help develop a framework of the difference of staff engagement, staff care, and other models of providing spiritual care to staff. It will describe why it is important to be more intentional in staff spiritual care and how it relates to retention, work culture, and patient satisfaction. It will share ways to replicate and integrate Spiritual Care into staff wellbeing programs that helps build spiritual care into the DNA of one’s healthcare system.
Handout Included: YES
SA1-07 Interdisciplinary Outpatient Chaplaincy: Best Practices from Chaplain Interviews at an Academic Health Center (R)
Presented by Alexia Torke, Notoshia Howard, and Shelley Varner-Perez
Overview
The majority of spiritual care in US healthcare is provided in acute care hospitals with relatively little spiritual care in the outpatient clinic setting. This is a missed opportunity to serve diverse patients, since many patients with serious illness in the outpatient setting have unmet spiritual and religious needs. In response to this need, IU Health has expanded chaplaincy services to several outpatient locations. Outpatient chaplain settings include primary care, trauma, neurology, an intensive pain program, a sickle cell clinic, and hematology/oncology. A physician-researcher interviewed these chaplains about their experiences in interdisciplinary settings and shares insights, implications, and next steps.
Handout Included: NO
SA1-08 Mental Health and Spirituality: Bridging the Gap with ACT
Presented by Reid Olson and Ian Olson
Overview
This presentation explores the intersection of mental health and spirituality, emphasizing the pivotal role chaplains play in fostering holistic well-being. By integrating spiritual care with psychological support, chaplains provide a unique, compassionate approach that addresses both emotional and existential concerns. A significant focus is on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a therapeutic model that encourages individuals to accept their thoughts and feelings while committing to behaviors aligned with their values. Chaplains, trained in both spiritual and psychological domains, can effectively utilize ACT to help individuals navigate mental health challenges, promoting resilience, acceptance, and purposeful living. Through case studies and practical examples, the presentation demonstrates how chaplains can support mental health recovery, offering a bridge between clinical interventions and spiritual guidance.
Handout Included: NO
SA1-09 Never Too Late To Learn, Always Learning Always Growing-LTC and Continuum Care Programing
Presented by Rev. Alex Cade-White
Overview
During this session, we will consider the ideas and understandings of previous and current theories about education and engagement around spirituality and evaluate long-term care facilities, centers, and resources. Look at ways of engaging this community that have been most effective and helpful and some that have yet to be from a spiritual care provider. Finally, I will share and reflect on some practices and people’s engagement and responsiveness to practices from my experience of working with and in this population. By engaging in the knowledge sharing, reflecting, and consideration participant will walk away with grounding knowledge, tools and potential ideas to engage in their provision of care as chaplain in care of, for, and with people 55+ in their given setting.
Handout Included: NO
SA1-10 Psychedelic Care and Chaplaincy
Presented by Stephen Lewis
Overview
The modern study of psychedelic medicines to treat a wide range of physical and mental health conditions has become more widely known in recent years. Evidence suggests that mystical/spiritual experience is a mediator of clinical improvement. As subject matter experts in spirituality and meaning making, chaplains have a profound role to play in helping people underdoing psychedelic assisted therapies as they prepare for and integrate their experiences with these substances. This workshop will assist learners in understanding current research, how chaplains can be of service, and how chaplains need to prepare in order to provide competent, safe, helpful care.
Handout Included: YES
SA1-11 Publishing & Collaborating with the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (R)
Presented by Kelsey White, Jason Nieuwsma, Paul Galchutt, and Geila Rajaee
Overview
This workshop is designed to inform participants about the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy. Specifically, this presentation will dispel any myths about the challenges of publishing, equip those interested with best strategies and techniques for compiling a research article, and connect chaplains to the journal’s leadership. We will report on the evolution of the journal over time as well as lay out a vision for the future of the journal. The workshop will also equip attendees with resources on academic writing, common pitfalls to avoid, and detail the process for reviewing articles and revising them.
Handout Included: NO
SA1-12 Using an Ongoing Collaboration between Chaplains and Ethicists to Improve Patient Care and Communication with the Health Care Team
Presented by Peggy Determeyer, Rev. Sarah Knoll Sweeney, Rev. Michael Lee, and Rev. David Leard
Overview
As spiritual and emotional care providers, chaplains are trained in communications skills, making them well-positioned to allow families to share their treatment concerns. Ethicists identify similar issues when there are mismatches between patient/family expectations and the treatment team. At one multi-location hospital system, chaplains and ethicists have worked together systemically across the spectrum, offering educational programs to physicians, nurses, social workers, and others. In this session, participants will share their experiences in educating all disciplines, including chaplains in Clinical Pastoral Education and across the clinical spectrum, offering a blueprint for others to expand their local collaborations between chaplains and ethicists.
Handout Included: YES
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