A Chaplain's Expertise: A New Paradigm
By John Skanse
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What is the place of a chaplain in medical care? How does chaplaincy fit into the psychological and physical spectrum of care in a medical setting? What words might more effectively express the need for chaplaincy involvement? What is the global goal of chaplaincy involvement, whether working with a patient of one's own religion, other religions, or those with no religious focus? How can a deeply religious chaplain effectively and honestly work with non-religious patients and/or family to provide a needed value?
These questions are explored in depth in Chaplain Skanse’s new book, A Chaplain’s Expertise: The New Paradigm. In it, Chaplain Skanse seeks to develop a simpler, universal language to talk about spiritual care.
Much is said about being spiritual and touching another person's life spiritually. What this means and how one actually does this in the crisis of medical uncertainty, without stepping on the autonomy of another person and/or their family, is explored with this new paradigm. Chaplain Skanse seeks to simplify the language of chaplaincy into a functional common language that allows patients, their families, the medical team, hospital administrators and even society at large to understand and converse with the chaplain.
This language creates a more unified and effective response to the questions of what chaplains do beyond their own religious or denominational offerings and how can they speak about their value to everyone involved in the trauma of medical need.
Whether one is exploring the field of chaplaincy for the first time or has worked in chaplaincy for a many years, this new perspective provides a framework from which everyone on the medical team can begin their evaluation with common goals for spiritual care.
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A Chaplain's Expertise - John Skanse
A
Chaplain’s
Expertise
(A New Paradigm)
by Rev. John Skanse, MDiv., COL ILANG (Retired), BCC
A Chaplain’s Expertise (A New Paradigm)
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Title: A chaplain’s expertise : a new paradigm / by Rev. John Skanse, MDiv., COL ILANG (Retired), BCC.
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A
Chaplain’s
Expertise
(A New Paradigm)
by Rev. John Skanse, MDiv., COL ILANG (Retired), BCC
January 2018
Table of Contents
Preface
A snapshot of chaplaincy
Chapter 1 Chaplaincy in Context
Chapter 2 Identifying What is ‘Normal’ in ‘Abnormal’ Situations
Chapter 3 The Importance of Expertise
The language found in defining a chaplain’s expertise
Chapter 4 Working Tangibly with the Spiritual Side of a Patient
The belief/spiritual side of a person…
Chapter 5 What is the purpose of chaplaincy involvement?
Making choices and compliance
The interplay of choices, belief, and patient-centered
care
Chapter 6 Where does the need for chaplains come from?
The challenge a crisis places on belief
The effects of belief’s control of choices for chaplains
The need to help people find their deepest beliefs
The effects of conflicting beliefs
The ultimate effect of belief
Chapter 7 What chaplains have learned from psychotherapy
Talk therapy
The therapeutic relationship
Carl Rogers’ four basic concepts
Two of Fritz Perls’s Gestalt therapy
Concepts
Albert Ellis’ Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Transpersonal psychology
Chapter 8 The Belief Process of Chaplaincy vs. Evangelical Christianity
Chapter 9 How to Approach Beliefs Without Stepping on Autonomy
Become Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
Be cautious about using questions
Seek the emotions of the situation
Congruence, or lack thereof, in approaching people will always be emotionally sensed by others
One final glimpse at the effects of a chaplain’s expertise
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Bibliography
Preface
Much has been written about chaplaincy, each work helping to express and develop a piece of understanding about how and why a chaplain’s function is of such importance in the care of people in medical and other settings.
Themes like The Living Human Document
¹, The Courageous Shepherd
², The Wounded Healer
³, The Circus Clown
⁴,