Religion, Health and Confidentiality: An Exploratory Review of the Role of Chaplains

Carey, Lindsay B.; Willis, Mark A.; Krikheli, Lillian; O’Brien, Annette

doi:10.1007/s10943-014-9931-2

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“…Military chaplains are uniquely appointed within their respective defense force to provide confidential counseling services sailors, soldiers and airmen/airwomen, ensuring personnel can wholeheartedly trust their chaplains in what they discuss with them without fear of reporting, reprimand or reprisal (48). For example, in the United States military, “Rule 503: Communication to Clergy,” states “a communication is ‘confidential’ if made to a clergyman in the clergyman's capacity as a spiritual adviser or to a clergyman's assistant in the assistant's official capacity and is not intended to be disclosed to third persons” [(49), p. III-24].…”

Section: Pastoral Narrative Disclosurementioning

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Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and Moral Injury: Considerations Regarding Screening and Treatment

Carey

Hodgson

2018

Front. Psychiatry

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Moral injury is a complex trauma related syndrome involving a correlation of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual symptoms that can have substantial impact upon health and well-being. This paper argues for a holistic bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to moral injury, by including chaplaincy in the screening and treatment of moral injury among actively serving military members and retired veterans. As part of the moral injury treatment process, and in alignment with the World Health Organization's Spiritual Intervention Codings, a new technique is proposed, “Pastoral Narrative Disclosure” (PND), as a guide for chaplains and others trained in spiritual care to assist those suffering from moral injury.

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Section: Pastoral Narrative Disclosurementioning

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Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and Moral Injury: Considerations Regarding Screening and Treatment

Carey

Hodgson

2018

Front. Psychiatry

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“…Nevertheless, amongst the nation’s doctors, there has been a strong historic tradition of Christian belief (Franklin 2018 ; Irvine 2015 ) and an increasing religious diversity (Henning et al 2015 ). There is a rigourous understanding of the contemporary issues facing chaplaincy (Carey et al 2015 , 2014 ; Carey and Cohen 2015 ; Carey 2012 ), which in contexts such as the New Zealand Defence Force (Hill et al 2016 ) needs to carefully craft pastoral care for a spiritually diverse constituency. Studies of the relationships between religion and health in New Zealand have found weak correlations between religion, spirituality, and well-being (Zhang 2020 ; Hoverd and Sibley 2013 ).…”

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New Zealand Religious Community Responses to COVID-19 While Under Level 4 Lockdown

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Social scientific research into the impact of COVID-19 on religious communities is emergent. This research combines interview data ( n = 12) collected, as New Zealand moved into Level 3—Restrict and then Level 4—Lockdown, with Facebook and online news media analysis to understand how religious leaders and their communities responded to COVID-19. Our data found four challenges: (1) The requirement to reassess worship practices, (2) the need to mitigate any potential for community transmission, (3) significant difficulties related to social distancing for communal religious practices, and lastly, (4) welfare and pastoral concerns for congregations and others in need.

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“…Established chaplain researchers have emphasized the need for more research in this space and the importance of incorporating spiritual care as part of an holistic model of health care (Carey & Cohen, 2015;Carey et al, 2016;Stallinga, 2013;World Health Organisation, 1946). Furthermore, there is greater need to understand how chaplains work individually and as part of a team (Carey & Rumbold, 2015;Carey, Willis, Krikheli, & O'Brien, 2015;Cunningham, Panda, Lambert, Daniel, & Demars, 2017). The aim of this scoping review was to map the available literature on staff perceptions of the role and value of chaplains in first responder and military settings.…”

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Staff perceptions on the role and value of chaplains in first responder and military settings: A scoping review

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Lewis

Levett‐Jones

2020

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Background Chaplains in first responder and military services support staff prior to, during and after critical incidents. Some studies have explored the role of chaplains in these settings predominantly in the military and from chaplains’ perspectives. However, few studies have explored the perspective of staff. This scoping review aims to map the literature on staff perceptions of the role and value of chaplains in first responder and military settings. Method A scoping review using the Arksey & O’Malley (2003) and Joanna Briggs Institute Scoping Review Methodology was conducted. English language peer-reviewed and grey literature in CINAHL, PubMed, PsychINFO, ProQuest and Google Scholar from 2004-2019 was reviewed for inclusion. Records were included if they provided staff perspectives on the role and value of chaplains in first responder and military settings. The initial search identified 491 records after removal of duplicates. All titles and abstracts were then screened for relevance to the research question and 84 were selected for full-text review. Seven records were included in final review; five dissertations and two peer-reviewed articles. Five of these were from the military and two from the police. Data were extracted and thematically analysed to identify staff perceptions of the role, skills and attributes, and value of chaplains in first responder and military settings. Results Staff understood the role of chaplain to include the provision of spiritual and pastoral care and guidance and, in the case of police, providing scene support. Staff from all of the services identified requisite skills and attributes for chaplains such as being available, approachable and engaged; counselling; maintaining confidentiality and trust; being organisationally aware; and possessing distinct personality traits and knowledge of specialty content areas. The value chaplains brought to their services emerged from chaplains being trusted as a result of being proactively available for staff, families and bystanders for formal and informal conversation; organisational belonging and awareness resulting in enhanced staff satisfaction and retention; and promoting staff physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing. Conclusions Although military and police staff identified spiritual, psychological and social benefits to chaplains maintaining an active and visible role in their services, the small number of papers identified make generalisation of these findings to other first responder services problematic. Further research is therefore required to understand the impact of the chaplain’s role as part of the care team in first responder services.

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Religion, Health and Confidentiality: An Exploratory Review of the Role of Chaplains

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and Moral Injury: Considerations Regarding Screening and Treatment

Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and Moral Injury: Considerations Regarding Screening and Treatment

New Zealand Religious Community Responses to COVID-19 While Under Level 4 Lockdown

Staff perceptions on the role and value of chaplains in first responder and military settings: A scoping review

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