Volume 22
Number 2
The Forum issue of Association of Professional Chaplains
Articles

Impact of Professional Spiritual Care

We are pleased to announce that you will now find on our respective websites a link to our new resource for advancing professional chaplaincy. As you know we collaborated in 2001 on the white paper, Professional Chaplaincy: Its Role and Importance in Healthcare. Since then our respective associations, as well as other associations, have published a variety of very helpful resources and research on professional spiritual care. 

This current resource, entitled The Impact of Professional Spiritual Care, has been co-authored and co-published by our five associations to provide you the most current expressions of and research on the profession of chaplaincy and spiritual care in the United States and Canada in a very accessible and readable format so that you can utilize the materials for yourself, and for your staffs, associates, and executives to explain and advocate for our profession.

This flip book format, versus a typical pdf format of a white paper, will allow us to continue to update materials as they become relevant, as well as aid you in using them. 

We are committed with you to strengthen and advance the profession for the benefit of the care-recipients we serve.

ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & EducationAssociation of Professional Chaplains,
Canadian Association for Spiritual Care/Association canadienne de soins spirituels,
National Association of Catholic ChaplainsNeshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains

Download the PDF copy or view the flipbook style publication The Impact of Professional Spiritual Care


Articles

A Message from APC President… February 2020

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Now Available: Updates to the Palliative Care & Hospice Advanced Certification

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50th Anniversary of Certification Interviews

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CSU’s Announces Upcoming Dates for “Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy” February 2020 

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Resource Reviews for Continuing Education and Reference February 2020:

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