Introduction
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, MBA, MHL, BCJC
PART I: Theology of Spiritual / Pastoral Care
1. Creating a Personal Theology to Do Spiritual / Pastoral Care
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs, MDiv, DMin, BCC
2. Creating a Personal Theology to Do Spiritual / Pastoral Care
Rev. David B. Plummer, BCC, LMFT
PART II: The Process of Spiritual / Pastoral Care
3. The Process of Spiritual / Pastoral Care: A General Theory for
Providing Spiritual / Pastoral Care Using Palliative Care as a
Paradigm
Rev. George Handzo, MDiv, BCC, CSSBB
4. Assessments
Chaplain D. W. Donovan, MA, MS, BCC
5. Creating and Implementing a Spiritual / Pastoral Care Plan
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, MBA, MHL, BCJC; Chaplain D. W. Donovan,
MA, MS, BCC; and Rev. George Handzo, MDiv, BCC, CSSBB
6. Chaplains and Charting
Rabbi H. Rafael Goldstein, BCJC
7. Foundational Listening and Responding Skills
Rev. Robert A. Kidd, MDiv, BCC
8. Prayer and Ritual
Chaplain Gerald L. Jones, MA, BCC, ACPE Supervisor
9. Counseling and Interventions
Rev. Dr. Willard W. C. Ashley, Sr., MDiv, DMin, DH
10. Inspiring Hope: Confronting Fear, Guilt, and Shame in Spiritual
/ Pastoral Care
Rev. Dr. Glenn A. Robitaille, RPC, MPCP, CPP
11. Life Review
Rev. Nancy Osborne, MDiv, ACPE Supervisor
12. End-of-Life Chaplaincy Care
Rev. Brian Hughes, MDiv, BCC
13. Ethics and the Care of the Sick: An Overview for Professional
Chaplains and Other Spiritual / Pastoral Care Providers
Dr. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv
14. Spirituality Groups
Rev. Lynne M. Mikulak, MDiv, MSW, BCC, ACPE Supervisor
15. Spiritual Care of Staff
Rev. Robin C. Brown-Haithco, MDiv, ACPE Supervisor
16. Gender Issues in Pastoral Care
Bishop Dr. Teresa E. Snorton, MDiv, DMin, BCC, ACPE Supervisor
17. Working with Community Religious Resources
Rev. Marcia Marino, DMin, BCC
18. Transdisciplinary Relationships
Chaplain Linda F. Piotrowski, MTS, BCC
PART III: Spiritual / Pastoral Care with Special Populations
19. Spiritual / Pastoral Care in Worlds Beyond: Ministry to
International and Immigrant Patients
Rev. Yoke Lye Kwong, BCC, ACPE Supervisor
20. Pediatric Chaplaincy
Rev. Dr. Dane R. Sommer, MDiv, DMin, BCC
21. Behavioral Health
Rev. Michele J. Guest Lowery, MDiv, BCC
22. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered (GLBT) People
Rev. Nancy K. Anderson, ACPE Supervisor, and Rev. Jo Clare Wilson,
ACPE Supervisor
23. Spiritual / Pastoral Care with People with Disabilities and
Their Families
Rev. Bill Gaventa, MDiv
24. Chronic Illness
Rabbi Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas, MHL, BCJC, CPSP Diplomate
Supervisor
25. Complicated Grief: Exploring Arresting Grief and Survival Grief
in Spiritual / Pastoral Care
Chaplain Timothy G. Serban, MA, BCC
PART IV: The Infrastructure of Spiritual / Pastoral Care
26. Strategic Planning: A Basis for All Infrastructure Development
and Growth within Spiritual / Pastoral Care
Rev. W. L. (Bill) Bross, MDiv, BCC, and Paula DeAngelo, MS, Senior
OD Consultant
27. Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy: Intentional Caring
Rev. Brent Peery, DMin, BCC
28. Referral Plans: Developing and Implementing Tactical Plans
Regarding Who Chaplains Should Visit
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, MBA, MHL, BCJC; Rev. Sue Wintz, MDiv,
BCC; and Rev. George Handzo, MDiv, BCC, CSSBB
29. Quality Improvement: A Chaplaincy Priority
Rev. Jon Overvold, MDiv, BCC
30. Health Care Chaplaincy as a Research-Informed Profession
Dr. George Fitchett, DMin, PhD, BCC, ACPE Supervisor, and Chaplain
Dr. Daniel Grossoehme, DMin, BCC
31. Cultural Competencies
Sr. Norma Gutierrez, BA, BCC
32. Sacred Space
Rev. Curtis W. Hart, MDiv, BCC, CPSP Diplomate Supervisor
33. Blessings of a Mixed Population: Institutional Prayer in
Multifaith Communities
Rabbi Dr. Shira Stern, MHL, DMin, BCJC
Index
Rev. Nancy K. Anderson, ACPE Supervisor, is director of spiritual
care at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and is
regional codirector of the Eastern Region of ACPE. She is an
ordained United Methodist clergy.
Rev. Willard W. C. Ashley Sr., MDiv, DMin, DH, a frequent speaker
on the topics of leadership development, clergy resiliency and
interfaith dialogue, is acting dean and associate professor of
practical theology at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He was
the interim pastor at Union Baptist Church in Montclair, New
Jersey, and is the founding pastor of Abundant Joy Community Church
in Jersey City, New Jersey. He also serves as a consultant on
disaster recovery and clergy self-care to congregations and Fortune
100 companies. He is author of Learning to Lead: Lessons in
Leadership for People of Faith and coeditor of Disaster Spiritual
Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and
National Tragedy (SkyLight Paths).
Dr. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv, is a research scholar at the
Hastings Center, an independent, nonprofit bioethics research
institute located in Garrison, New York. Her research and teaching
focuses on health care ethics, related topics in public health
ethics and in human rights, and ethics education for health care
professionals, including chaplains. Dr. Berlinger is the project
director for the forthcoming revision of the
Hastings Center guidelines on end-of-life care and has a special
interest in ethical issues related to cancer as a chronic illness.
She teaches health care ethics to graduate students at the Yale
School of Nursing. She serves on the Bioethics Committee at
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, and on the Board of
Directors of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition. Dr. Berlinger
is the author of After Harm: Medical Error and
the Ethics of Forgiveness and coauthor of "Ethical Dilemmas and
Spiritual Care Near the End of Life," in Living with Grief:
Spirituality and End-of-Life Care.
Rev. W. L. (Bill) Bross, MDiv, BCC, is the director of spiritual
care and values integration at Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar
Land, Texas. He has been the recipient of several grants awarded to
study the effectiveness of bereavement interventions and has been
involved in hospice, palliative care, and oncology chaplaincy for
twenty-two years. He is currently involved in studying factors that
inform hospital and organizational culture.
Rev. Robin C. Brown-Haithco, MDiv, ACPE Supervisor, is the director
of staff support at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta,
Georgia. This program is located in the Pastoral Care Department.
Prior to assuming the position at Emory, Rev. Brown-Haithco was the
director of chaplaincy and CPE at the Grady Health System. Her
publications include "Standing on Holy Ground: The Vocation of
Pastoral Supervision," in Journal of Supervision and Training in
Ministry, and “Decisions at the End of Life: A CPE Supervisor's
Personal Reflection,” in Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling.
She also presented a paper titled “Effective Pastoral Care in HIV /
AIDS Contexts” at the McAfee School of Theology in 2007 and at the
New Baptist Covenant Celebration in 2008. Rev. Brown-Haithco is
ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA.
Rabbi Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas, BCJC, was the founding
executivedirector of Disaster Chaplaincy Services, New York. She
responded onSeptember 12, 2001, to the 9/11 attacks in New York
City. At the beginningof 2002 she was hired full-time to oversee
the American RedCross's (ARC) Spiritual Care Long Term Recovery
program in NewYork City. She is a longtime member of ARC’s
Spiritual Care Response
Team and serves on the national oversight committee. She served as
deanof the Rabbinic Seminary of Hebrew Union College–Jewish
Institute ofReligion in New York, as the director of the Jack D.
Weiler Chaplaincy Program of the New York Board of Rabbis, and as
coordinator of Jewish chaplaincy at the New York Hospital–Cornell
Medical Center under the auspices of the HealthCare Chaplaincy.
Paula DeAngelo, MS, Senior OD Consultant, is an organizational
development consultant for Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar
Land, Texas. She received her master's degree in training and
development and has worked supporting clients in the areas of
training design and development, needs analysis, curriculum design,
change management, strategic planning, communication strategy
development and implementation, competency modeling, and team
building interventions.
Chaplain D. W. Donovan, MA, MS, BCC, currently serves as the
mission leader at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission
Hills, California. Board certified since 2001, Donovan has served
in hospital chaplaincy since 1997. He served as chief resident of
the Pastoral Care Department at the Medical College of Virginia and
as the manager of pastoral care at Bon Secours Richmond Health
System. Donovan served as committee secretary and general editor in
the writing of the Common Standards for the Certification and
Practice of Chaplaincy and served as the first lead interview team
educator with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains
(NACC). Highly involved with medical ethics, he is the author of
"Defending the Donor's Decision: An Analysis of the Ethical Issues
Related to First-Person Declarations of Organ Donation," published
in Health Progress. He consults on a range of issues related to
pastoral care, medical ethics, and liturgy.
Dr. George Fitchett, DMin, PhD, BCC, ACPE Supervisor, is an
associate professor and the director of research in the Department
of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush University Medical
Center, Chicago, Illinois. He has been a certified chaplain
(Association of Professional Chaplains) and pastoral supervisor
(Association for Clinical Pastoral Education) for more than thirty
years. Since 1990 he has been involved in research examining the
relationship between religion
and health in a variety of community and clinical populations. His
research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and
published in chaplaincy, medical, and psychological journals.
Rev. Bill Gaventa, MDiv, serves as director of Community and
Congregational Supports at the Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on
Developmental Disabilities and as associate professor at Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey (UMDNJ), New Brunswick, New Jersey. In his role at
the Boggs Center, Rev. Gaventa works on community supports,
training for community services staff, spiritual supports, training
of seminarians and clergy, aging and end-of-life / grief issues,
and cultural competence. He has edited four books, written a number
of book chapters and articles, and served as the editor of the
Journal of Religion, Disability and Health for fourteen years.
Rabbi H. Rafael Goldstein, BCJC, is the director of pastoral care
at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He did his
chaplaincy residency at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, where
he served as the Jewish community chaplain for seven years. He is
the founder of
Dynamics of Hope Consulting (www.dynamicsofhope.com), which
provides workshops for health care workers and people living with
illness on issues of hope, forgiveness, joy, and life. He is the
author of four books, including Being a Blessing: 54 Ways You Can
Help People Living with AIDS and The Dynamics of Hope Prayerbook,
for people living with illness, their loved ones, and caregivers,
as well as numerous articles, which can be found on the
website.
Chaplain Dr. Daniel Grossoehme, DMin, BCC, is an assistant
professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of
Medicine and staff chaplain III in the Department of Pastoral Care
at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, serving the
Cystic Fibrosis Center. He is a board certified chaplain
(Association of Professional Chaplains). His research, funded by a
National Institutes of Health Career Development Award (K23
HD062642), focuses on the role of religion in adherence to home
treatment routines by parents of children with cystic fibrosis. He
is the author of several works on adolescent mental health and
religion, prayer and meaning, and pediatric pastoral care.
Sr. Norma Gutierrez, BA, BCC, is a member of the Missionary
Catechists of Divine Providence of San Antonio, Texas, and
currently serves on the Leadership Team. She is board certified
with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains and also has
served on the Board of Directors, on the Conference Planning
Committee, and as a certification interviewer. She is a
first-generation Hispanic and ministers primarily in hospitals with
high concentrations of Hispanics. She is at this time a staff
chaplain at Sharp Medical Center, Chula Vista, California.
Rev. George Handzo, MDiv, BCC, CSSBB, is the vice president of
Chaplaincy Care Leadership and Practice at HealthCare Chaplaincy.
Rev. Handzo directs the only consulting service devoted to the
strategic assessment, planning, and management of chaplaincy
services. HealthCare Chaplaincy employs best practices in strategic
planning and clinical practice to maximize the effectiveness of an
organization's pastoral care and to align it with the institution’s
overall objectives. Prior to his current position, Rev. Handzo was
the director of Chaplaincy Services at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center for more than twenty years and is a past president of
the Association of Professional Chaplains. He serves on the
Distress Guidelines Panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer
Network. Rev. Handzo has authored or coauthored more than fifty
chapters and articles on the practice of pastoral care.
Rev. Curtis W. Hart, MDiv, BCC, CPSP Diplomate Supervisor, is an
Episcopal priest and lecturer in public health, medicine, and
psychiatry, Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical
College, Cornell, New York, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Religion and Health. At Weill Cornell Medical College, he teaches
medical students in the "Medicine, Patients, and Society"
curriculum and is a member of the Institutional Review Board,
Committee on Human Rights in Research. At Weill Cornell he is an
active participant in the Richardson History of Psychiatry Research
Seminar and its Working Group on Psychoanalysis and the Arts. He is
a lecturer in the Program in Psychiatry and Religion at Union
Theological Seminary and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of
Psychology and Religion. His other professional associations
include being a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a
Fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education.
Rev. Brian Hughes, MDiv, BCC, is a chaplain certified through the
Association of Professional Chaplains, where he serves as Education
Committee chair. He attended Princeton Theological Seminary and
completed nine units of clinical pastoral education in New York
City; Temple, Texas; and Phoenix, Arizona. He has served as a
hospital staff chaplain in Phoenix, Arizona; Irving, Texas; and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He recently authored Handbook of
Evidence-Based Best Practice for Spiritual Care Provision for those
with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain
Injury (TBI) for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
(BUMED).
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs, MDiv, DMin, BCC, is the author of A
Clergy Guide to End-of-Life Issues. She provides workshops
throughout the country for clergy and congregations on end-of-life
issues. Martha is an adjunct professor at New York Theological
Seminary, where she is the coordinator for the Doctor of Ministry
in Pastoral Care and a per diem chaplain at New York Presbyterian
Hospital, Columbia Campus. She is the founding managing editor of
PlainViews.
Chaplain Gerald L. Jones, MA, BCC, ACPE Supervisor, is the director
of chaplain services at Sutter Roseville Medical Center, Roseville,
California. He is a CPE supervisor with the Association for
Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and a board certified chaplain
with the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). He has
trained multiple CPE groups throughout northern California on the
"Art of the Written Prayer" and has published an article of the
same title in Chaplaincy Today. He currently serves as the northern
California State chair with the APC.
Rev. Robert A. Kidd, MDiv, BCC, is the director of spiritual care
and education at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He is
endorsed by the Alliance of Baptists and is a past president of the
Association of Professional Chaplains.
Rev. Yoke Lye Kwong, BCC, ACPE Supervisor, is the director of
spiritual services, Howard Regional Health System, Kokomo, Indiana.
She is an Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE)
supervisor and an Association of Professional Chaplains (APC)
certified chaplain. She is the author of "Silent Cry: In Search of
Harmony on Gold Mountain—The Yin-Yang Way of Pastoral Care," in
Women Out of Order—Risking Change and Creating Care in a
Multicultural World, and “The Integrity of Tao,” in Journal of
American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
Rev. Michele J. Guest Lowery, MDiv, BCC, is coordinator of the
Center for Spiritual Care at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health
Hospital, Hoffman Estates, Illinois. She is an ordained minister in
the United Church of Christ and a board certified chaplain with the
Association of Professional Chaplains, with almost twenty years of
experience in behavioral health chaplaincy. Other publications by
Rev. Lowery include "Just Another Manic Monday" (2008), “God in the
Odd”
(2008, 33–34), and “Practicing the Presence of Pavement”
(2008).
Rev. Marcia Marino, DMin, BCC, currently serves as the transition
minister of the First Unitarian Church of Saint Louis, Missouri.
She previously served as the regional director of pastoral care for
Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a board
certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains.
She is the Finance Committee chair and the interim treasurer for
the Association of Professional Chaplains. She holds dual standing
with the Unitarian Universalist
Association and the United Church of Christ. She wrote "Living with
a Big Heart," in The Spirit: An Ecumenical Spirituality
Newsletter.
Rev. Lynne M. Mikulak, MDiv, MSW, BCC, ACPE Supervisor, is
coordinator of pastoral care and education at the Payne Whitney
Westchester Psychiatry Division of NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital.
She is a certified supervisor with the Association of Clinical
Pastoral Education and an ordained minister in the United Church of
Christ. She has run spirituality groups for the past fifteen years
in a variety of parish, community, and clinical settings, with a
focus on spiritual, theological, and cultural awareness and
development.
Rev. Nancy Osborne, MDiv, ACPE Supervisor, is the director of
chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education at the Good Samaritan
Society, University Specialty Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
From 1995 to 2005 she served as the manager of pastoral care at Rex
Healthcare in Raleigh, North Carolina. Rev. Osborne is a member of
and is certified as a clinical pastoral education supervisor by the
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE). She is an
ordained Alliance of Baptists clergyperson.
Rev. Jon Overvold, MDiv, BCC, is on the staff of HealthCare
Chaplaincy, New York City, and since 2002 has served as the
founding director of pastoral care and education at North Shore
University Hospital, Manhasset, New York. Rev. Overvold is an
ordained minister in the Lutheran Church (ELCA). He is a board
certified chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains and
since November 2006 has been elected to its board of directors,
serving as chair of the Commission
on Quality in Pastoral Services. He was the cochair of the work
group that developed Standards of Practice for Professional
Chaplains in Acute Care Settings in January 2010.
Rev. Brent Peery, DMin, BCC, is director of the Chaplaincy Services
Department for Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center in Houston,
Texas. He previously served as a congregational clergyperson and as
a pediatric chaplain. In addition to serving as chair of the OOC
task force for Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, he has taught,
consulted, and written on the subject for several years.
Chaplain Linda F. Piotrowski, MTS, BCC, is the pastoral care
coordinator and chaplain for the Palliative Care Service at
Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center and the Norris Cotton Cancer
Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Previously, she was the founding
chaplain of the Pastoral Care Service at Central Vermont Medical
Center in Berlin, Vermont, and regional director of spiritual care
for the Covenant Healthcare System in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Chaplain Piotrowski is coauthor of "Teamwork in Palliative Care:
Social Work Role with Spiritual Care Professionals," in Oxford
Textbook of Palliative Social Work. She is also published in Living
with Grief: Spirituality and End-of-Life Care, the companion book
for Hospice Foundation of America's (HFA) 2011 Living with Grief
program.
Rev. David B. Plummer, BCC, LMFT, is the department head of
Chaplaincy Services at Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton,
Virginia, in addition to being the religious endorsing body
representative for his faith group, Creating a Personal Theology to
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the Coalition of Spirit-filled Churches. In addition to being a
board certified chaplain, he is a licensed psychotherapist and has
served as a clinical supervisor for more than a decade for students
from two graduate schools of counseling. Rev. Plummer is very
active in the professional pastoral care community. His published
works have appeared in a number of venues, but his favorites are
the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling and PlainViews. He was
recently elected chair-elect of the COMISS Network and chair-elect
of the Endorsers Conference for Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy.
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, MBA, MHL, BCJC, is the editor of
Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and
Chaplain's Handbook and coeditor of Disaster Spiritual Care:
Practical Clergy Response to Community, Regional and National
Tragedy (both SkyLight Paths Publishing). He is a past president of
the National Association of Jewish Chaplains. Most recently he
served as the associate executive vice president of the New York
Board of Rabbis, directing their chaplaincy program, providing
services in more than fifty locations throughout New York, and
serving as the endorser for both New York State's and New York
City's Jewish chaplains. Prior to this he served as the director of
chaplaincy of the Beth Israel Medical System (New York), overseeing
chaplains and clinical pastoral education (CPE) programs at three
acute care hospitals, one behavioral health hospital, and various
outpatient facilities served by chaplains.
Rev. Dr. Glenn A. Robitaille, RPC, MPCP, CPP, is the director of
spiritual and religious care at the Waypoint Centre for Mental
Health Care. He is ordained with the Brethren in Christ Church and
the founding pastor of Covenant Christian Community Church in
Penetanguishene, Ontario,
Canada. He has extensive experience in mental health chaplaincy and
has been instrumental in establishing spirituality as a clinical
variable in mental health care. He is a member of the Canadian
College of Professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists (CCPCP), a
registered professional counselor and master practitioner of
counseling psychology with the Canadian Professional Counsellors
Association (CPCA), and a certified pastoral counselor with the
International Association of Christian Counseling Professionals
(IACCP). Rev. Dr. Robitaille is a contributing author in A Peace
Reader and Leaving Fundamentalism: Personal Stories and has
published thirty articles in various magazines and journals in the
field of theology and counseling.
Chaplain Timothy G. Serban, MA, BCC, is vice president of mission
integration and spiritual care at Providence Regional Medical
Center, Everett, Washington, supporting a team of twenty-one board
certified chaplains and music thanatologists. He has been in the
field of spiritual care, mission, and ethics for more than
twenty-two years. He holds his master's degree in theology and
pastoral ministry in health care from Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a board certified chaplain with the
National Association of Catholic Chaplains. He serves as national
volunteer lead for the Spiritual Care Response Team of the
American Red Cross in Washington, DC, and liaison of the National
Association of Catholic Chaplains to the American Red Cross.
Chaplain Serban has taught and spoken abroad on disaster response,
ethics, and spiritual care. He is a contributor to Disaster
Spiritual Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional
and National Tragedy (SkyLight Paths Publishing), and The Red Guide
to Recovery: A Resource Handbook for Disaster Survivors.
Bishop Dr. Teresa E. Snorton, MDiv, DMin, BCC, ACPE Supervisor, is
the former executive director of the Association for Clinical
Pastoral Education. She is a certified clinical pastoral educator
(CPE supervisor) and a board certified chaplain in the Association
of Professional
Chaplains. She is an ordained minister in the Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church and the presiding bishop of the denomination's
Fifth Episcopal District. She is the first female to be elected by
the CME Church to serve as bishop. Bishop Dr. Snorton has more than
thirty years of experience in pastoral ministry, chaplaincy, and
clinical pastoral education. She is coeditor, with Dr. Jeanne
Stevenson-Moessner, of the book Women Out of Order: Risking Change,
Creating Care in a
Multicultural World.
Rev. Dr. Dane R. Sommer, MDiv, DMin, BCC, has been the director of
Chaplaincy Services at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics since
1987, where he is also the assistant director of Bioethics Policy
and Practice. He is the founder of the Pediatric Chaplains Network.
He is also adjunct professor of bioethics at the Kansas City
University of Medicine and Bioethics. Rev. Dr. Sommer is the author
of several articles related to children and illness, including
"Exploring the Spirituality of Children in the Midst of Illness and
Suffering," in The Advocate, and “A Premature Infant with
Necrotizing Enterocolitis Whose Parents are Jehovah’s Witness,” in
Pediatrics.
Rabbi Dr. Shira Stern, MHL, DMin, BCJC, is a past president of and
certified through the National Association of Jewish Chaplains and
currently chairs the Ethics Committee. She has served on the
CCAR
Board of Trustees as the vice president for member services. She
currently has a private pastoral counseling practice in Marlboro,
New Jersey, and serves Temple Rodeph Torah of Marlboro, New Jersey,
as its educator.
Previously, she was the director of community chaplaincy of
Middlesex County, New Jersey, and director of the Jewish Institute
for Pastoral Care, part of the HealthCare Chaplaincy, providing
programs for rabbinic
and cantorial students, chaplains, and clergy in the field. She was
trained by the Red Cross to serve on the SAIR team—Spiritual Air
450 The Infrastructure of Spiritual / Pastoral Care Incident
Response Team (now the Critical Incident Response Team)— and worked
for four months at the Liberty State Park Family Assistance Center
in the aftermath of 9/11. Her selected works include "Visions of an
Alternative Rabbinate," CCAR Journal, and “Healing Muses: Music as
Spiritual Therapy,” Jewish Relational Care A to Z.
Rev. Jo Clare Wilson, ACPE Supervisor, is director of pastoral care
and education at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut, and is
regional codirector of the Eastern Region of ACPE. She is a past
president of ACPE and a Disciples of Christ minister.
Rev. Sue Wintz, MDiv, BCC, is board certified by the Association of
Professional Chaplains and is a past president of that
organization. She is the managing editor of HealthCare Chaplaincy's
professional publication PlainViews, which translates knowledge and
skills into effective and palliative care. Her work in teaching,
research, writing, and consulting has contributed to organizations
such as the Joint Commission and the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery. She is a staff chaplain at St. Joseph’s Hospital and
Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, where she is
assigned to the intensive care units of the Barrow Neurological
Institute.
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—Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, PhD, director, Accreditation and
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—The Rev. Dr. David C. Johnson, BCC, ACPE Supervisor;
president, Association of Professional Chaplains
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practical and profound essays. A useful resource for seminaries and
practitioners.... I commend it to all who help create sacred places
and times to heal wounds of mind and heart and who enable the
spiritual journey to continue to unfold.”
—The Rev. Gregg A. Mast, PhD, president, New Brunswick Theological
Seminary
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—Sally A. Schwab, president-elect, Association for Clinical
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