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The ACPE Research Network Newsletter is published three times a year: in the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Issues contain not only items of current news about the Network but also items of ongoing pertinence regarding spirituality research and health and education [--and items of this latter sort have been highlighted in bold type in this index for easy reference].

Members are encouraged to submit material by e-mailing the Network Convener at john.ehman@uphs.upenn.edu. Click on the links below to view recent issues.

  • On-Line Vol. 10. No. 1 (Fall 2011)
    • Annual Network Business Meeting
    • Research Workshops at the Upcoming National ACPE Conference
    • Call for Information about ACPE Programs that Teach Research
    • Ideal Intervention Project (IIP) -- Update
    • Ten Articles Especially Useful for Introducing CPE Students to Research
    • Four Recent Overviews and Evaluations of Spirituality Measures
    • More Websites Linking to Our Network Site
  • On-Line Vol. 9. No. 3 (Summer 2011)
    • Update on the ACPE Board Motion on Research
    • Call for Collaboration on Research on the Impact of Clinical Pastoral Education on Clergy Health
    • Update and Request Regarding Research into Chaplains' Documentation
    • Update on "Spiritual Skills" Research
    • Reading List for the Summer 2011 Duke Spirituality and Health Workshops
    • Canadian Study: "...From Chaplains to Spiritual Care Providers"
    • Health Study of Air Force Chaplains
    • Dissemination of Religion and Health Research
    • Survey of Spirituality and Health Content in US Medical School Curricula
    • New "Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project" Theme Issue from the Southern Medical Journal
    • Research Network Website Given High Marks in Review
    • Research from 2010 Not Previously Noted on the Research Network Website
  • On-Line Vol. 9. No. 2 (Winter 2011)
    • Update on the ACPE Board Motion on Research
    • Research into Chaplains' Documentation: A Call for Stories and Formats
    • Supervisory Training Process Survey
    • Research-Related Activity at the ACPE Center at Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Connections Through Research
    • Ideal Intervention Project Update
    • Michael S. Barry's The Forgiveness Project
    • Initiative on Spiritual Care in Palliative Care in Europe
    • Spirituality & Health Summer Workshops at Duke
    • Annual Meeting of the Network: Salt Lake City, April 8, 2011
  • On-Line Vol. 9. No. 1 (Fall 2010)
    • Update on the Current Research Initiative by the ACPE Board and Executive Director
    • Important New Survey of Chaplains’ Charting
    • Survey of Clinical Members
    • Longitudinal Study of God Images in Chronic Pain Patients Planned
    • New Study from the Department of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education at Clarian Health
    • Survey of Religion in America -- 1972-2006, from HealthCare Chaplaincy
    • Research as Part of "Defining and Advocating for Spiritual Care in the Hospital"
    • Two Network Member Articles Now Available Freely Online from Chaplaincy Today
    • Special Journal Theme Issue on Spiritual and Religious Issues in Behavior Change
    • Southern Medical Association's Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project Website Closes
  • On-Line Vol. 8. No. 3 (Spring-Summer 2010)
    • ACPE Board Moves to Develop Research Initiative
    • Research on Research
    • Update on Research at Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Neuropsychology/Neuropsychiatry of Religion --Study Update
    • New and Proposed Sections of the Network Website
    • Convener's Report of the Spring 2010 Network Meeting, Kansas City, MO
    • Research from 2009 Not Previously Noted on the Research Network Website
  • On-Line Vol. 8. No. 2 (Winter 2010)
    • Annual Network Meeting, April 23, 2010
    • Update on Research at Virginia Commonwealth University's Program in Patient Counseling
    • Research at Johns Hopkins
    • More Thoughts on "A CPE Research Question...," from a Nurse and Life Coach
    • New Initiative for CPE Student Research at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
    • Spirituality & Health Summer Workshops at Duke
    • Instrument Development: Introductory Resources
    • Research Postings at PlainViews
    • Australian Journal of Pastoral Care and Health Online
  • On-Line Vol. 8. No. 1 (Fall 2009)
    • Physicians’ Experience and Satisfaction with Chaplains: A National Survey
    • A CPE Research Question: "Out of Everything We’ve Talked About Today, What Has Been the Most Helpful?"
    • Research in the Department of Religion, Health and Human Values at Rush University Medical Center
    • New Articles by Scott Murray on Methodology, and More on Spiritual Trajectories of End-of-Life Experience
    • Incidence of EMTs Offering to Contact Chaplains in Non-Resuscitation Cases
    • GWish Announces SOERCE
    • California Mental Health & Spirituality Initiative
    • 12th Spirituality Research Symposium at Penn, and Activities of the HUP Department of Pastoral Care
  • On-Line Vol. 7. No. 3 (Spring-Summer 2009)
    • HealthCare Chaplaincy Study of CPE Students
    • "Spiritual Skills" Research by Gordon Hilsman
    • Update on Projects at the VCU Program in Patient Counseling
    • The Chaplain’s Role in Pediatric Palliative Care: Mapping Model Programs
    • Summer Workshops on Spirituality & Health Research at Duke University
    • Call for Papers on Health Care Chaplaincy
    • Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Spirituality, Theology and Health
    • Bibliography of Medline-Indexed Articles Published in 2008
  • On-Line Vol. 7. No. 2 (Winter 2009)
    • Research Meeting and Workshops at the Spiritual Care Collaborative Summit
    • A Practical Tool for Evaluating Students in the CPE Application Process
    • Article on Neural Circuitry, with Implications for Pastoral Care --Review by Kyle D. Johnson
    • Can We Measure Good Chaplaincy? -- Essays from a Project on Professional Chaplains and Health Care Quality Improvement
    • New Overviews of Research by Harold Koenig, MD
    • Convener's Report of the Network Meeting in Richmond, October 24, 2008
  • On-Line Vol. 7. No. 1 (Fall 2008)
    • Research and ACPE: A Letter from ACPE President Bill Scrivener
    • A New Supervisor Plans Research into the ACPE Certification Process
    • Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP) Project Presented at National Conferences
    • Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Society for Spirituality, Theology, and Health
    • New Theoretical Models for Spirituality in Multicultural, Whole-Person Medicine
    • 3-Factor Model for the FACIT-Sp
    • Research in the Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy
    • Convener's Report and Annual Meeting Agenda
  • On-Line Vol. 6. No. 3 (Spring-Summer 2008)
    • Author's Perspective on "Violently Injured Patients Seen in the Emergency Department of Barnes-Jewish Hospital: A Descriptive Study of Context, Future Views, and Spirituality," by (co-author) Lawrence Olatunde
    • Research Basics Class Offered at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Program in Patient Counseling
    • Southern Medical Association's Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project Website Goes Offline…but Should Return
    • Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP) Project --Update
    • Research and "Pastoral Concern in Relation to the Psychological Stress Caused by the Death of an Animal Companion"
    • Eleventh Annual Spirituality Research Symposium at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
    • Bibliography of Medline-Indexed Articles Published in 2007
  • On-Line Vol. 6. No. 2 (Winter 2008)
    • Author's Perspective on "Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain," by Kevin Flannelly
    • Chaplain Receives Grant for fMRI Research
    • Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP) Project Continues to Develop --An Update
    • Bias in the Medline Literature Database: Thoughts on a Study of the Portrayal of Islam and Muslims
    • Convener's Report of the Annual Network Meeting, October 26, 2007, Dallas, TX
  • On-Line Vol. 6. No. 1 (Fall 2007)
    • Research Update from VCU's Program in Patient Counseling
    • "A Morning Rumination," by Jackson Kytle
    • Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP) Project Continues to Develop
    • Thoughts on William Osler's "Study of the Act of Dying"
    • Recent Journal Theme Issues on Spirituality
    • Announcement of the Annual Network Meeting, and a Note from the Convener
  • On-Line Vol. 5. No. 3 (Spring-Summer 2007)
    • Update on the Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP) Project
    • CPE Student Survey of PCA and OPC Chaplains
    • Research on Chaplain-to-Patient Bed Ratios
    • What Do Patients Want That They're Not Getting?
    • Clarification about the Spiritual Needs Assessment Scale
    • Web Finds: Center for Study of Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Indiana State University
    • Duke's Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health Revises Its Website
    • New Bibliography of Articles on Spirituality and Health from 2006
  • On-Line Vol. 5. No. 2 (Winter 2007)
    • Demonstrating the Contribution of Clinical Pastoral Care to Lawsuit Prevention: A Boilerplate Research Proposal, by John J. Gleason
    • Use of Standardized Patients in CPE and Research at the VCU Program in Patient Counseling
    • Chaplains at the Christiana Care Health System Collaborate on Research with the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center
    • Thoughts on Theory and Method in Chaplaincy Research, by Jackson Kytle
    • Web Find: Milestones --Newsletter from the John Templeton Foundation
    • Special Issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine
    • Article on Self-Transcendence in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
  • On-Line Vol. 5. No. 1 (Fall 2006)
    • Research Network Annual Meeting, November 18, 2006, in Tampa, FL
    • Current Research Initiatives by the Program in Patient Counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project of the Southern Medical Association
    • Chaplain Resident's Survey of Burn Centers with CPE Programs
    • A Report on the Pilot Phase of the Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP) Project: Introducing Pastoral Research into Clinical Pastoral Education, by Henry G. Heffernan
    • Editor's Note about Articles that Interpret Chaplaincy to Other Disciplines
    • Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing on Spirituality and Nursing
  • On-Line Vol. 4. No. 3 (Spring 2006)
    • Note to the Network from the Co-Author of Healthcare and Spirituality
    • Responses to the April 2006 Article-of-the-Month: an Ethnographic Study of Chaplains; and the Author's Reply
    • Survey Available On-Line about CPE Supervisors' Responsibilities and Time Allocations
    • Study Estimating How Many Hospitalized Patients Are Visited by Chaplains
    • Update on the "Structured Descriptions / Ideal Interventions" Project
    • Announcement of a New Center for Spirituality and the Mind
    • Bibliography of Articles on Spirituality and Health Indexed on Medline in 2005
    • Web Finds: An Annotated Bibliography on Dementia and Spirituality by the Christian Council on Ageing Dementia Group (UK)
  • On-Line Vol. 4. No. 2 (Winter 2006)
    • Poster Presentations from the Hawaii Conference
    • Update on the "Structured Descriptions" Project, with a Draft of a Student Manual
    • Study of Oregon Hospice Chaplains and Physician-Assisted Suicide
    • Web Finds: Accessing the General Social Survey Data
    • Two Special Journal Issues Focusing on Spirituality and Health
  • On-Line Vol. 4. No. 1 (Fall 2005)
    • Bibliographies of Articles on Spirituality and Health
    • Incidence of Religion/Spirituality in the Medline Index
    • "Responding to John Gleason's Challenge," by Henry Heffernan
    • Web Finds: NCCAM and CRISP
    • The Journal of Gerontological Social Work's Recent Theme Issues on Spirituality
    • Network Meeting in Honolulu HI, October 29th
  • On-Line Vol. 3. No. 3 (Spring 2005)
    • Network Award Applications/Nominations Due
    • Project by the Quality Commission for Pastoral Services
    • The Effect of a Chaplain's Presence in the Operating Room
    • Issues for Students to Keep in Mind when Reading Pastoral Care Research Studies
    • "Ways of Knowing" Handout
    • Web Finds
    • Spirituality & Health Bibliography
  • On-Line Vol. 3. No. 2 (Winter 2005)
    • "Looking for God in a Mind-Blowing Big Universe," by Frank Ciampa, CPE Supervisor (retired)
    • Twelve Guiding Questions for Incorporating Research into a CPE Curriculum
    • Special Feature on Spirituality in The Southern Medical Journal
    • A Proposal for a Strategic Approach to Developing Research in Chaplaincy
    • Interest in Research Using the "Beliefs About God Assessment Form" (BAGAF)
    • Convener's Report of the Fall Network Meeting in Portland, Maine
  • On-Line Vol. 3. No. 1 (Fall 2004) --Special "Web Finds" Issue
    • "Browsing the Internet: A CPE Supervisor's Exploration of Research and Resources on Religion in Rural America," by Margot Hover, DMin, ACPE/NACC Supervisor, St. Louis Cluster/Barnes-Jewish Hospital Community-based Program
    • Hartford Institute for Religion Research
    • Duke's Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health
    • Update on Larson Presentations On-Line
    • Article on Internet Resources for Spirituality and Health
    • National Institutes of Health
    • Convener's Report: Workshop at the Fall 2004 National ACPE Conference and Agenda for the Annual Network Meeting
  • On-Line Vol. 2. No. 3 (Spring 2004)
    • "An Approach to the Specification of Chaplain Visits," by Henry G. Heffernan, Staff Chaplain, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda MD
    • Web Finds: The Spirituality and Health Interest Group at MUSC
    • Network Workshop Scheduled for the Fall 2004 National ACPE Conference
  • On-Line Vol. 2. No. 2 (Winter 2004)
    • Excerpts from "Pastoral Research" by The Rev. John J. Gleason, DMin
    • The Rev. Joy Freeman Receives the Student Research Award
    • Notes from the Network Meeting in Lake Geneva, WI
  • On-Line Vol. 2. No. 1 (Fall 2003)
    • Introducing Students to Pastoral Care Research: Thoughts on Discussing Epistemological Questions
    • Grant Available to North Central Region Supervisors
    • Excerpts from "A Brief History of the Joint Council on Research in Pastoral Care and Counseling," by John R. Thomas
    • An Article of Interest about Richard C. Cabot
    • Convener's Report
    • Agenda for the Network Meeting at the Fall 2003 ACPE Conference
  • On-Line Vol. 1. No. 3 (Spring 2003)
    • Last Call for Research Award Applications
    • Thoughts on the Identification of Pastoral Care Interventions for Research
    • Web Finds: Conference Presentations On Line
    • Review: Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology [--Subsequently renamed Science and Theology News]
    • Convener's Report
  • On-Line Vol. 1. No. 2 (Winter 2002)
    • Call for More Listings on the Current Research Initiatives Page
    • Report of Original Research by Network Member Dick Tibbits
    • Web Finds: Research-Based Presentations On Line
    • Student Guide I: Thinking Critically about Questionnaire Items
    • Convener's Report
  • On-Line Vol. 1. No. 1 (Fall 2002)
    • Inauguration of Our New Network Web Site
    • New Arrangement for Network Dues
    • Awards Committee Members Needed
    • Notes of the Network Meeting at the 2002 ACPE Conference
    • Rabbi Mychal B. Springer Receives 2002 Researcher Award

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