Chaplaincy Research Summer Institute - 2018
Channel: Transforming Chaplaincy
Date: 10/04/2018

For more information and to register for the CRSI, visit http://www.transformchaplaincy.org/grants-training/summer-research-institute/.

Chaplains have embraced the importance of a research-informed approach to chaplaincy practice, including the importance of research literacy. The Transforming Chaplaincy project and other activities such as the APC Webinar Journal Club are helping chaplains to develop research literacy. Through the Chaplain Research Fellowships, Transforming Chaplaincy is also helping to develop a cohort of chaplains with the training to contribute to chaplaincy research. The audience for the CRSI includes chaplains who wish to develop modest projects to advance their understanding of chaplaincy-related issues and practices (e.g. religious and/or spiritual needs and resources of patients and families being served in a specific clinical context; pilot testing a new approach to screening for religious/spiritual need in a new clinical area) and chaplains who are providing leadership to chaplaincy quality improvement projects. The CRSI will also be useful for chaplains who plan to collaborate on research projects with other non-chaplain investigators as well as those planning chaplaincy-related DMin projects.

The content of the CRSI will provide participants with an introduction to the research process, to various methods relevant for chaplaincy research (e.g. case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods), and to important examples of existing chaplaincy-related research. The CRSI will include a number of hands-on activities, including using PubMed to conduct a literature search. Participants will also work in small groups to develop research questions and proposals which will be presented at the end of the conference. Participants in the midst of chaplaincy-related projects are welcome to bring those projects to work on through the week. In 2017, 25 chaplains participated in the Institute, which took place in Chicago