Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific: Yes and No

by Van De Creek; Larry

• ISBN13: 9780789022370
• ISBN10: 0789022370
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Does the scientific process belong in pastoral counseling? Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific: Yes and No examines the widespread ambivalence among pastoral caregivers and educators over the growing inclusion of science in pastoral care and counseling methodologies. Twenty-three seasoned professionals in the field give candid and sometimes emotional accounts of their interest in-and reservations about-the role scientific research plays in their profession. Some authors looked at the issue from a historical perspective; others voiced additional concerns. A few made concrete proposals on how chaplaincy can become more scientific. The result is a unique insight into the relationship between the secular and the religious. The question of whether science belongs in pastoral care and counseling is moot; pastoral care already makes extensive use of psychological testing and psychotherapeutic skills-all products of scientific

Table of Contents

Preface: What Has Jerusalem to Do with Athens? What Has Pastoral Care to Do with Science?	xiii
Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform?	xv
Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform?	xvii
Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific? It's a Matter of Salt	1	(10)
Joe Baroody
Spirituality and Data: The Need for a New Paradigm	11	(8)
William J. Baugh
To Be, Or Not To Be More Scientific? That Is the Question: Yes, Absolutely, But . . .	19	(10)
Paul Steven Bay
Chaplains and Science	29	(14)
W. Noel Brown
Chaplaincy Is Becoming More ``Scientific.'' What's the Problem?	43	(10)
Larry Burton
Clinical Pastoral Education and the Value of Empirical Research: Examples from Australian and New Zealand Datum	53	(14)
Lindsay B. Carey
Dr. Christopher Newell
Health Care Chaplaincy as a Research-Informed Profession: How We Get There	67	(6)
George Fitchett
Science and Ministry: Confusion and Reality	73	(8)
George F. Handzo
Siblings or Foes: What Now in Spiritual Care Research?	81	(10)
Gordon J. Hilsman
Research or Perish?	91	(8)
Margot Hover
Ministry for the Good of the Whole	99	(4)
Eugene W. Huffstutler
Chaplain Yes and Chaplain No: Both Are Correct; Neither Is True	103	(10)
Steven S. Ivy
Language and Tools for Professional Accountability	113	(12)
Mark E. Jensen
Four Fatal Flaws in Recent Spirituality Research	125	(6)
Raymond J. Lawrence
In the World but Not of the World: Going Beyond a Dilemma	131	(12)
Richard Leliaert
At the Poles Eventually All You Get Is Cold	143	(8)
Chaplain Arthur M. Lucas
But What Are We Trying to Prove?	151	(14)
David B. McCurdy
She Said, ``Some Patient Needs Get Dropped Due to More Pressing Issues''	165	(6)
Dick Millspaugh
Respecting the Dual Sided Identity of Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy: The Phenomenological Research Model	171	(14)
Marie-Line Morin
The Search for Truth: The Case for Evidence Based Chaplaincy	185	(10)
Thomas St. James O'Connor
Health Care Reform: Opportunities for Professional Chaplains to Build Intentional Communities of Learners by Integrating Faith, Science, Quality, and Systems Thinking	195	(18)
Bartholomew Rodrigues
The Chaplain as the Complete Philosopher	213	(10)
Orlo C. Strunk
Rediscovering Mystery and Wonder: Toward a Narrative-Based Perspective on Chaplaincy	223	(14)
Dr. John Swinton
Attention to the Scientific Benefits of Pastoral Care Is a Blessing and a Curse	237	(8)
Jo Clare Wilson
Index	245