Hello friends, I appreciated the introductions and responses to our first few days together. Ironically, since last Tuesday, one of my friends was taken to our local inpatient hospice unit and he just died this morning. His wife has had 5 years of slow grief over the disease process, and these last few days have […]
Lesson Category: Article
Grief and the Healing Arts Lesson 1: Loss and Grief
Suggested resources. Sandra Bertman, Ed. – Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy. (Amityville, NY: Baywood Press, 1999.) Julia Cameron – The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. New York: TarcherPerigee, 2016. (has a workbook available) Joy Berger – Music of the Soul: Composing Life Out of Loss. (New York: Routledge, 2006) […]
Grief and the Healing Arts – Introduction
Hello! Welcome to The Oates Institute seminar on Grief and the Healing Arts. My name is Gail Henson, and it is my pleasure to join you over the next three weeks to explore this topic. Our learning outcomes are three-fold: To define dimensions of grief observed in our work. To examine ways art, music, and […]
Measuring Strategic Chaplaincy
Please see the image below, then read the article in the link: https://www.chausa.org/publications/health-progress/article/may-june-2018/measuring-pastoral-care-performance – Rabbi Nadia Siritsky
Professional Chaplaincy – Establishing a Hospital-Based Department
Download the PDF of the article “Professional Chaplaincy – Establishing a Hospital-Based Department” for this lesson here: Strategic Chaplaincy
The Rise of the “Nones” and the Implication for Spiritual Care in a Post-Modern Age Week 3
Week III Oates Institute Seminar October 2018 Hello Fellow Travelers, This week starts with a blessing for a Spiritual Care Week. Our Oates Director Rick Underwood had a great Op-Ed column in today’s Courier-Journal in which he shared with the community the value of our work and of the Oates Institute! Yay! It’s great to […]
Religion May Help Boost Your Longevity
Our next lesson involves reading a recent article on how religion may help boost your longevity written by Janet Tiberian at MDVIP. Please click on the following link to read the article, then come back to mark this lesson complete and join our discussion in the forums: https://www.mdvip.com/about-mdvip/blog/religion-may-help-boost-your-longevity
Tending the Garden Through the Eyes of a Cancer Patient
DIRECTOR’S NOTE: This article was written by the late Dr. Chris Hammon, once the Executive Director of the Wayne Oates Institute and Affiliate Faculty in Leadership for the Drew University Theological School’s Global Online Doctor of Ministry Program. Dr. Hammon passed away after a four-year battle with cancer in 2014. As I concluded my last […]
Tailoring Pastoral Care to Fit the Patient: Joining Medicine and Narrative
“I’m so upset. They told me I need bypass surgery.” You can imagine Katherine’s distress. She came to our hospital for a heart catheterization–diagnostic in nature and usually simple–but her results showed the need for a far more drastic medical intervention. Any patient might have difficulty hearing this news, but her next statement revealed the […]
Eight Things to Do While in Palliative Care
Mrs. ML is a 65-year-old who was enjoying good health and retirement largely because she could care for her 5-year-old niece whose mother worked in a supervisory role at a department store. Her past medical history was unremarkable for serious illness. She had an appendectomy when 21 and had two children without complications by natural […]