Spirituality as an Inherently Psychological Process: Integrating Evidence Based Practices from the Field of Psychology to Create Effective Pastoral Interventions

Description:

Overview:
A review of the literature related to pastoral interventions in a psychiatric context renders very little in the way of evidence based practice related to effective pastoral interventions for psychiatric patients. The field of psychology, on the other hand possesses a wealth of evidence based interventions and techniques. By integrating the techniques supported by the evidence in the field of psychology with best practices and "doing what works" from a pastoral care perspective, effective pastoral support can occur as the evidence base from the field of psychology can serve as a scaffold for the field of pastoral care as it seeks to develop its own evidence based practice. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the interplay between psychological interventions and pastoral interventions recognizing that the process by which people grow and develop spiritually also is an inherently psychological process contributing to psychological growth as well. With that in mind, all pastoral interventions have a psychological underpinning as spirituality and the processing of religion is an inherently psychological process. Moving forward, these disciplines have the capacity to inform one another and work together to build interventions and move evidence based practice forward for both the fields of psychology and pastoral care and counseling.

• The participants will be able to find and evaluate appropriate sources of evidence based literature from the field of psychology and be able to consider the source's capacity to inform a potential pastoral intervention or care technique
• The participants will be able to recognize the value of the evidence base from the field of Psychology in formulating and delivering pastoral interventions and will learn methods to integrate this evidence base toward their work in their current ministerial context
• The participants will be able to take evidence based practices from the field of psychology and utilize them in developing effective pastoral interventions and creating sound evidence based practice in the field of pastoral care moving ultimately toward developing a body of evidence based information that can guide the field of pastoral care and counseling

Presenter:
Chaplain Mike Sibley is a Psychiatric Chaplain and Licensed Pastoral Counselor at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a Board Certified Chaplain with BCCI and SCA. He is licensed as a pastoral counselor through the state of Kentucky. Mike completed his seminary training at New Orleans Baptist Seminary and a total of three years in CPE residencies (Level 1, Level 2, and Supervisory CPE) at East Jefferson General Hospital, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, and The McFarland Institute. He has completed additional graduate and doctoral level studies at the University of Kentucky in Rehabilitation Counseling, Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, and Cognitive Sciences. Through the course of his career, Mike has worked in ICU, PICU, NICU, Transplant, CICU, ED and trauma, hospice, Inpatient palliative care, out-patient psychiatry, and Acute In-patient psychiatry. Mike also has a small private practice that he maintains in addition to his caseload at Eastern State Hospital. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force and a seasoned presenter, having presented at two national APC conferences on the subjects of spirituality in mental illness. Mike has also presented at the Racial, Ethnic, and Multicultural Conference of the ACPE on the ramifications of moving from pastoral care to spiritual care in name and function. His personal research interests include the intersections between psychology, theology, and neurophysiology. In his off time, he enjoys gardening, hiking, spending time outdoors, working on cars, and spending time with his beautiful 12 year old daughter, Addison.

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