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IDEAL INTERVENTION PAPER (IIP) PROJECT
INTRODUCTION:
Please allow me to introduce you to a no-cost teaching tool that 1) helps to consolidate student learning from verbatim presentations to peers and/or individual supervision, and then 2) will contribute to the wider cause of quality Spiritual Care (SC). The Ideal Intervention Project (IIP), begun in the CPE context a few years ago but now open to seminarians, parish clergy, chaplains, pastoral counselors and spirit-oriented members of other disciplines, can do both of these things. The ongoing project will enable the pooling of SC experiences internationally in strictest confidence through a SC technical knowledge base of which the collection in this section is a prototype. This will enable much wider learning from our successes and failures by making our insights available to others facing similar SC situations, eventuating after careful testing and evaluation in evidence-based SC best practices. As a further incentive to get started with the IIP, please keep in mind the highly likely prospect that SC paychecks will one day (soon?) be based not on quantity (number of visits, etc.), but rather on quality (evidence-based desired outcomes achieved). Your participation is needed for all of these powerful reasons.
John J. Gleason
ACPE Supervisor Emeritus
mariejohn50@att.net
CURRENT STATUS:
Summaries of Ideal Intervention Papers by CPE students from a variety of programs have now been compiled to illustrate how supervisors and students are using the IIP exercise and provide an initial set of interventions for replication. [See the "IIP Summaries" section, below.]
Workshops are being conducted at ACPE regional meetings and at national conferences, with funding for promotion of the project coming in part from a grant by the East Central Region. ACPE Supervisors are encouraged to join this initiative. For the latest flyer for supervisors, see: "Something New Under the CPE Sun" (PDF). For more information, contact Jack Gleason at: mariejohn50@att.net.
On June 26, 2008, Dr. Gleason presented "Evidence-Based Spiritual Care Best Practices" --a session on the IIP project at the First Annual Meeting of the Society for Spirituality, Theology, and Health at Duke University (www.societysth.org). That conference was "designed to bring together transdisciplinary scholars and interested physicians, clergy, chaplains, nurses and lay persons from the United States and other parts of the world to present and discuss the latest research in spirituality, theology, and health" [p. 2 of the meeting program]. The paper session on the IIP was well-attended and sparked animated discussion. Materials presented at the session are available for download: PowerPoint slides [PDF version], a Background Discussion Paper, and a brief introduction to the IIP Protocol.
On October 24, 2008, a workshop on the IIP -- "CPE Breakthrough: A New Learning Tool" -- was presented at the ACPE annual conference in Richmond, VA. The description of the workshop in the conference brochure was as follows:
This ACPE Board of Representatives-approved project consolidates student learnings after verbatim presentations in group by requiring the Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP). Several trials in the East Central and Eastern ACPE Regions have produced strong praise for the IIP in enabling students to acquire greater depth of critical reflection and integration of skills. Further, students are learning experience-based patient care planning as well as contributing to the chaplaincy-wide task of identifying evidence-based best practices. This workshop will introduce the IIP and show its use by presenting a verbatim, discussing it, and then writing an IIP response. Presented by: The Rev. John J. Gleason, CPE Supervisor (PT) and ACPE Supervisor Emeritus at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN. The Rev. Yoke-Lye Jerrymia Lim Kwong, ACPE Supervisor at Howard Regional Health System, Kokomo, IN. The Rev. Paul D. Steinke, ACPE Supervisor at Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY.
On February 2, 2009, Dr. Gleason and Rev. Yoke Lye Lim Kwong presented "An Outlandish Idea: Evidence-Based Spiritual Care Best Practices," at the Spiritual Care Collaborative Summit in Orlando, FL. The workshop description in the conference brochure was as follows:
This ACPE-sanctioned project employs an innovative inductive design. CPE students’ Ideal Intervention Papers consolidate learnings from verbatim presentations. Certified spiritual care clinicians edit the papers into potential best practices, and their colleagues access a database by central issue identifiers to inform their own interventions. Care recipients rate effectiveness. Effective interventions are designated tentative best practices. Replication of effective interventions determines evidence-based spiritual care best practices. Workshop Goals:
1) Understand the context of and the need for evidence-based spiritual care best practices, 2) Understand the overall project and its immediate and long-term goals, and 3) See the need to become full participants in this vital SCC-wide undertaking.
Available for download (PDFs): a handout distributed at the session and a summary report of the workshop.
Foundation funding is currently being sought under ACPE, Inc. sponsorship.
IIP Summaries:
Summary of IIPs from CPE Students --list (PDF) ordered by themes, updated July 21, 2010
IIP e-NEWSLETTERS:
--PDFs or Word files open in a new window
Volume 3, Number 2 (May 17, 2010) --PDF
[--or Word file for easy cut & paste]
Volume 3, Number 1 (January 21, 2010) --PDF
Volume 2, Number 10 (December 9, 2009) --PDF
Volume 2, Number 9 (September 17, 2009) --PDF
Volume 2, Number 8 (August 20, 2009)
Volume 2, Number 7 (July 31, 2009) --PDF
Volume 2, Number 6 (June 25, 2009)
Volume 2, Number 5 (May 28, 2009)
Volume 2, Number 4 (April 24, 2009)
Volume 2, Number 3 (March 24, 2009)
Volume 2, Number 2 (February 24, 2009)
Volume 2, Number 1 (January 15, 2009)
Volume 1, Number 2 (December 23, 2008)
Volume 1, Number 1 (November 26, 2008)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dr. John Gleason: MARIEJOHN50@ATT.NET
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