New chaplaincy research reader available
Transforming Chaplaincy: The George Fitchett Reader is now available from Wipf and Stock. The book, edited by Steve Nolan and Annelike Damen and with a foreword by Lab Director Wendy Cadge, brings together some of the most important work on spiritual care research in recent years. You can find the table of contents here.
From the publisher’s website:
Evidence-based medicine has transformed contemporary medical practice. For over twenty-five years, George Fitchett has been a pioneering advocate of the view that evidence-based spiritual care can, and should, equally transform chaplaincy. This book collects a key selection from his ground-breaking research. As models of good research practice, these papers demonstrate the real-world value of research and introduce their readers to issues that have continuing importance to spiritual care and professional chaplaincy. As such, this collection offers an ideal introduction to spiritual-care research. The collection is complemented by three essays, specially commissioned from observers well-positioned to comment on future directions for both professional chaplaincy and spiritual-care research.
The Lab congratulates Professor Fitchett, who is an advisor to the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, for this landmark book celebrating a decades-long career of launching spiritual care research. Lab Director Wendy Cadge was an original co-principal investigator on the project Transforming Chaplaincy. Spiritual care research educators, as well as chaplains seeking to launch their own research projects, will benefit enormously from this compilation. The book is a valuable companion to any course on spiritual care research; any chaplain interested in the evidentiary basis for spiritual care should check out the book, as well.