APC Webinar Journal Club 13 - Session 1 Tuesday, February 27, 2024 (1pm - 2pm US/Central) Virtual

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What We Leave Behind: A Case Study of Spiritual Legacy and the Impacts of Structural Racism
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW

Please Register by 2/21/2024

Registration
Individual Webinar Journal Club 13 sessions
$75 / computer terminal / member
$112 / computer terminal / non-member

Registration by the published deadline is required to ensure that participants receive handouts, login information and pre-reading materials in sufficient time before the webinar.

Audience
The series is designed to help chaplains with no prior experience learn to read and understand research. It will also introduce research-literate chaplains to important research about spiritual needs and chaplains’ activities in response to those needs.

Preparation
The articles selected for the series are made available, and participants are strongly encouraged to read them in preparation for each webinar.

Session 1 
What We Leave Behind: A Case Study of Spiritual Legacy and the Impacts of Structural Racism
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDT
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT
11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
10:00 am - 11:00 am AKDT
9:00 am - 10:00 am HAST

60 minutes (1 CE hour plus reading/self-study hours - Methodology 8, Research)

Case study research is a vital method to growing the body of research literature directly by and for healthcare chaplains. This case narrates the spiritual care relationship between a Chinese American female chaplain and an African American man and addresses important topics for chaplains including legacy-making, the impact of structural racism on both patients and the impact of race on the spiritual care relationship, and how chaplains can address issues of meaning-making at the end of life. This session will focus both on the process of writing a case study as well as the challenging and profound insight Shu’s case study illuminates for the field of professional chaplaincy in a diverse and complex racial landscape.

Aims for reading this article through the Webinar Journal Club:

1. Learn about the importance of case study research in building a body of evidence in healthcare chaplaincy.
2. Explore dynamics of race and racism in this particular case and the ways chaplains engage these issues personally and professionally.
3. Understand the core spiritual need of legacy making and ways chaplains can engage patients in legacy making.

Reading: Shu C. "I need my granddaughter to know who I am!" A case study of a 67-year-old African American man and his spiritual legacy. J Health Care Chaplain. 2023 Jul-Sep;29(3):256-268. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2023.2209463. Epub 2023 May 10. PMID: 37163229

Presenters

Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPH BCC, is a Research Partner with Transforming Chaplaincy, Executive Director of Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship, and convener of the Pediatrics Spiritual Care Research Network. Her research interests include the role of religion in coping with caregiving for children with complex medical needs. She completed the Transforming Chaplaincy Research Fellowship in 2019 and is pursuing a PhD at KU Leuven.

Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW is the Spiritual Care Research Program Manager at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas. She coordinates research related to spirituality, religion and spiritual care with the Houston Methodist Research Institute and interdisciplinary colleagues as well as research within the spiritual care department. She is also a researcher and instructor with Transforming Chaplaincy. She is a qualitative researcher utilizing hermeneutic phenomenology and mixed methods. She has published several articles on spirituality, chaplaincy, and spiritual care during the pandemic. She has presented several workshops and intensives at the annual APC conference, for NACC and the North American Association of Christians in Social Work.

How It Works
To participate, all that is needed is a computer with Internet access and speakers, as the presentation audio and visuals are "webcast." Our webinars are priced per computer terminal, not per participant. That means you can invite as many colleagues to join you as can fit in your conference room or cluster around your computer. As a participant, you will be able to interact with the presenters, who will ask questions of the audience and answer questions posed by participants.

System Requirements
As a Best Practice, we highly recommend;
An Ethernet connected computer for best connectivity and listening experience. You may experience some buffering of audio on lower bandwidth wireless connections.
Chrome v50 or higher (recommended for best performance), Safari 12.1 or higher, Firefox 49.x or higher.
A stable Internet connection, DSL or above: 500kbps or higher to ensure fluidity of all services.
Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Mac OS X v10.8 or higher, Linux, Solaris.
Computer Speakers (for participants listening over the computer)

The link below will test your system to make sure it is compatible with the current version of the TelSpan viewer and to make sure it is not being blocked by your network. Please make sure you complete the system check before accessing the webinar.

Please click the following System Test link:  http://web.telspan.com/systemcheck 

All the lines should have a green check mark, with the exception of the webcam line, which can be red or green. If any lines except the webcam line are red, please contact your network administrator to allow TelSpanWeb access the following ports:
WEB SERVER: https traffic on port 443.
SIGNALING SERVER: https traffic on port 443 (recently changed from port 80).
MEDIA SERVER API: https traffic on port 443.
This will allow TelSpan to work properly.

"Webcam Access" applies only to presenters, so if you see a red "X," that's OK.

If you have any further questions or concerns, or if you do not have computer speakers, please contact APC at info@apchaplains.org for assistance.

Confirmation
You will receive an e-mail confirmation upon completion of the online registration and payment process. Instructions for logging into the webinar will be e-mailed to all participants two business days before the event.

Registration Fees: These fees are available through 02/21/2024
Name	Price	Available To
Member	$75.00	Member
Non-Member	$112.00	Non-Member

Cancellation and Other Policies:

The registration fee (minus a $20 nonrefundable processing charge) will be refunded up to five (5) business days of the first scheduled WJC session. APC reserves the right to cancel the program within one (5) business days of the scheduled event, if an insufficient number of people register. In case of APC cancellation, all registration fees will be refunded.

Continuing Education Information:

This session qualifies for 1 hour of CE credit.
(Methodology 8 – Research)