Chaplains' perspectives on standardizing spiritual assessments.
Chaplains' perspectives on standardizing spiritual assessments.
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牧师对标准化精神评估的看法。
DOI：
10.1037/ser0000726
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Harris,JIrene
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作者：
Boska,RachelL;Dunlap,Shawn;Bishop,ToddM;Goldstrom,David;Tomberlin,Drew;Baxter,Sheila;Kopacz,Marek;Quigley,KarenS;Harris,JIrene
牧师是退伍军人健康管理局(VHA)精神健康治疗不可或缺的一部分，在过去十年中，人们努力将牧师服务纳入行为健康治疗。牧师的一项独特职责是进行精神评估，其特点是与退伍军人合作讨论，了解他们的整体宗教和信仰体系，识别精神伤害，以及如何将自己的精神价值融入医疗保健。尽管退伍军人事务医疗中心的精神评估多年来一直在发展，采用了更有条理的方法，但精神评估可能会因地点、临床环境和医疗中心而异。本研究试图考察牧师对精神评估标准化的观点，并将经验性验证的措施纳入评估中。对某大型VHA医疗中心的两个牧师焦点群体进行了专题分析。总体而言，牧师们似乎对精神评估标准化感兴趣，并表示希望保持目前的对话形式。
Chaplains are an integral part of mental health treatment within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and over the past decade, efforts have been made to integrate chaplain services into behavioral health treatment. One unique duty of chaplains is to conduct spiritual assessments, which are characterized as collaborative discussions with veterans to understand their overall religious and belief system, identify spiritual injuries, and how to integrate one’s spiritual values into medical care. Although spiritual assessments in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers have evolved throughout the years to adopt a more structured approach, spiritual assessments can vary depending on site, clinical setting, and medical center. The present study sought to examine chaplains’ perspectives on standardizing spiritual assessments and incorporating empirically validated measures into the assessments. Thematic analysis was conducted on two focus groups of chaplains from a large VHA medical center. Overall, chaplains appeared interested in standardizing spiritual assessments, with an expressed desire to maintain their current conversational format.