APC Webinar Journal Club 13 - Session 2 Tuesday, April 23, 2024 (1pm - 2pm US/Central) Virtual

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The Persistence of Religion as a Master Status for Chaplains
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW

Please Register by 4/18/2024

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 2 
The Persistence of Religion as a Master Status for Chaplains
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW
Tuesday, April 23, 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)

Research has been conducted on how chaplains perceive their role. Less is known about how recipients of care perceive the role of chaplains. This study analyzed the interviews of 38 persons who had received spiritual care from a chaplain. Respondents see the role as multidimensional through the framework of “jobs that need to be done,” acknowledging that chaplains offer social listening, emotional comfort, and functional practical religious support. Religion provides a master status for chaplains from the perspective of care recipients because religion is the least ambiguous part of a chaplain’s job. These findings complicate the perspective of research and chaplain narratives that emphasize “presence.” The authors suggest that chaplains could mitigate professional identity tensions by centering desires for religious and spiritual care.

Aims for reading this article through the Webinar Journal Club:

1. To discuss the role of chaplains from the perspective of care recipients.
2. Understand how chaplains can lessen role confusion for care receivers.
3. Understand patient centered research through the use of qualitative interviews

Reading: Lawton, A. & Cadge, W. (2023). The Persistence of Religion as a Master Status for Chaplains. Review of Religious Research, 65(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0034673X231215280


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
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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.
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Registration Fees: These fees are available through 04/18/2024
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)