Each month, these pages highlight articles of special interest not only for researchers but for CPE supervisors and students in general. The articles are intended to encourage discussion among Research Network members and to suggest to CPE supervisors potential resources for research-based article discussions with students. To propose articles for this page, contact Chaplain John Ehman, Network Convener, at john.ehman@uphs.upenn.edu . 

Click on the links below to access the various Articles-of-the-Month pages.

• October 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Effects of a Spiritual Meditation on Pain and Issues of Migraineurs

• September 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Overview of the Neurobiology of Spirituality

• August 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Effect of a Guided Imagery and Music Intervention on Spirituality and Anxiety in a Cardiac Population

• JULY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: The Provision of Chaplaincy Services in US Hospitals, 1980-2003

• JUNE 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Violently Injured Patients Seen in the Emergency Department

• MAY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: The Spiritual Transformation Scale, and Assessing Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Decline in Cancer Patients

• APRIL 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Gap Analysis of Cultural and Religious Needs of Hospitalized Patients

• MARCH 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Patients' Expectations of Hospital Chaplains

• FEBRUARY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain

• JANUARY 2008 - 
  TOPIC: Sense Making in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic Disease

• DECEMBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and the Experience of American Indians Receiving Hemodialysis

• NOVEMBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Illness Trajectories and Spirituality

• OCTOBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: An Overview of Research on Forgiveness

• SEPTEMBER 2007 - 
  TOPIC: "Vicarious Resilience" --A Concept with Implications for Chaplains

• AUGUST 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality/Religion and Depression

• JULY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Three Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Spirituality

• JUNE 2007 - 
  TOPIC: The Influence of Spirituality/Religion on Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Patients

• MAY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Patients' Conceptualizations of Spirituality and Religion

• APRIL 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Cerebral Blood Flow During Glossolalia

• MARCH 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Do Pastoral Care Providers Recognize Nurses as Spiritual Care Providers?

• FEBRUARY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and Eating Disorders

• JANUARY 2007 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplains' Involvement with Issues of Physical Pain

• DECEMBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing

• NOVEMBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Matters of Spirituality at the End of Life in the PICU

• OCTOBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Neuroscience and Emotion: the Research of Joseph LeDoux on the Amygdala

• SEPTEMBER 2006 - 
  TOPIC: The Influence of Awareness of Terminal Illness on Spiritual Well-Being

• AUGUST 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Patients' Attitudes about Being Placed on Religion Lists for Clergy Visitation

• JULY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: "Spiritual Modeling" --Learning Theory and Its Empirical Research

• JUNE 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Patients'/Families' Use of the Internet for Spiritual Support

• MAY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Research into Near-Death Experiences

• APRIL 2006 - 
  TOPIC: An Ethnographic Study of Chaplains in a Pastoral Care Department with a CPE Intern Program

• MARCH 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Spirituality and Bipolar Affective Disorder

• FEBRUARY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: "Are You at Peace?": One Item to Probe Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life

• JANUARY 2006 - 
  TOPIC: Religious and Non-Religious Coping in Lung Transplant Candidates: Does Adding God to the Picture Tell Us More?

• DECEMBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Effects Spiritual vs. Secular Meditation on (Physical) Pain Outcomes

• NOVEMBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Efficacy of Frequent Mantram Repetition

• OCTOBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Physician Perspectives and Characteristics Regarding Religion/Spirituality

• SEPTEMBER 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Role of Spirituality in Weight Management

• AUGUST 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Heritability of Religiousness (and Religiousness as a Sixth Factor of Personality)

• JULY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: A Field Analysis of Spirituality, Religion and Health

• JUNE 2005 - 
  TOPIC: New Spiritual Assessment Instruments

• MAY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: How Spirituality May Be Affected by Trauma

• APRIL 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Beliefs in an Afterlife and Their Health-Related Effects

• MARCH 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Positive Spiritual Outcomes from Surviving Haematological Malignancies

• FEBRUARY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: Clergy and the Provision of End-of-Life Care (--with implications for pastoral education)

• JANUARY 2005 - 
  TOPIC: The Conceptualization of Religion and Epistemological Issues in Research on Religion & Health

• DECEMBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 3: The Spirituality Index of Well-Being Scale

• NOVEMBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Struggle During Illness

• OCTOBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Needs and Patient Satisfaction

• SEPTEMBER 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Physician-Patient Interaction Regarding Spirituality

• AUGUST 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Clergy as Physician/Community Resources

• JULY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Experiences of Survivors of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation (including deriving reassurance from "angelic encounters")

• JUNE 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Research on the Meaning and Use of the Terminology of Spiritual Pain / Existential Pain

• MAY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: A Study of Chaplains' Interventions and Referrals at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

• APRIL 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients and Religious Coping (with additional thoughts on spirituality and immune system functioning)

• MARCH 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 2: Studies Using the Spiritual Well-Being Scale

• FEBRUARY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 1: Spiritual Well Being and the FACIT-Sp Measure

• JANUARY 2004 - 
  TOPIC: Background to Fetzer's Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality

• DECEMBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Findings from Quantitative Research and the Work of David B. Larson, M.D.

• NOVEMBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Studies on Remote Intercessory Prayer: Methodology and Assumptions

• OCTOBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: An Ethnographic Study of CPE/Chaplaincy in the Contemporary Hospital Setting

• SEPTEMBER 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Overview of Research-Related Issues in the Field of the Psychology of Religion

• AUGUST 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Post-Termination Phase of Psychoanalysis--with Implications for CPE

• JULY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Attitudes Regarding Disclosure of Medical Errors

• JUNE 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Muslim Patient Issues and the Effect of Illness/Treatment on Religious Practice

• MAY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Four Important Overview Articles on the State-of-the-Science in Spirituality and Health

• APRIL 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Religious Coping and Chronic Illness (with a bib. introducing religious coping)

• MARCH 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Self-Transformation and Breast Cancer Survivors (with a bib. re: spiritual risk and qualitative research)

• FEBRUARY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: The Ironson-Woods Spirituality/Religiousness Index and Persons Living with HIV/AIDS

• JANUARY 2003 - 
  TOPIC: Private Prayer, Optimism, and Cardiac Patients (with a bib. re: spirituality and cardiac issues)

• DECEMBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: Systems-Centered Group Therapy: Research Bases and Practical Issues

• NOVEMBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: Chaplain Supervisors and Research: Insights from a Personal Journey into the World of Research

• OCTOBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: Spiritual Needs and End-of-Life Care

• SEPTEMBER 2002 - 
  TOPIC: The Definition and Use of the Term/Concept of Spirituality in the Health Care Literature