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New Chaplaincy eBook Announced

At the CSU Shiley Institute for Palliative Care, we look for opportunities to share enriching, stimulating information with our students, past, present, and future, whenever we can. In our newest eBook, being released today, we partnered with the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network to bring five articles together that address some of the very challenging topics facing chaplains in today’s health care systems.

Originally published in HCCNs PlainViews these articles offer opportunities to enhance both your chaplaincy practice and provide thought-provoking insights and ideas, including:

  • Research work done on the fastest growing segment of religiously self-identified people: the non-religious. Starting with citations from the Pew Research Institute’s landmark studies of the American religious landscape, these articles weave in research from other sources, work done by the authors, tools and recommendations for practice which can be implemented readily.
  • A full article documenting the authors’ research on and experience with Jewish patients and families is provided as well. It details the history of those of Jewish descent, from a religious and cultural perspective, reveals current trends, and identifies key understandings which can increase your chaplaincy effectiveness with this population.
  • The unique perspectives of a Muslim chaplain serving patients in a Houston-area hospital are included in our fourth article. Houston is one of the top three cities with greatest religious diversity, and has a large Muslim population. His experiences are timely as well, and may not only assist those whose patient populations include Muslims, but will help all of us understand Muslims more.
  • Our concluding article gives information about the reimbursement landscape for chaplaincy services, and suggests steps those in the profession can carry out to improve the future outlook for reimbursement.

Our eBook articles were written by chaplains for chaplains, but we invite other members of the health care team to read them as well. Understanding ourselves and our own religious or spiritual beliefs and values, learning more about what underpins the outward signs you see in patients and families, respecting and endorsing their rights and preferences in this very important aspect of palliative care support, is as critical as pain control to quality of life and well-being.

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