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    A Chaplain's Expertise: A New Paradigm
    A Chaplain's Expertise: A New Paradigm
    A Chaplain's Expertise: A New Paradigm
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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Publishing Group, Inc.
    Release dateMar 31, 2018
    ISBN9781620235201
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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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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Skanse, John, 1950- author.

      Title: A chaplain’s expertise : a new paradigm / by Rev. John Skanse, MDiv., COL ILANG (Retired), BCC.

      Description: Ocala : Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017055431 (print) | LCCN 2017057850 (ebook) | ISBN 9781620235201 (ebook) | ISBN 9781620235195 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 1620235196 (alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Chaplains. | Pastoral medicine. | Chaplains, Hospital. | Church work with the sick.

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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 Document¹, The Courageous Shepherd², The Wounded Healer³, The Circus Clown⁴,

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