Paper Sessions
Below you will find abstracts, contact information and presentation
materials that have been made available by the paper presenters at the
1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Spirituality, Theology & Health.
You may search by Room or Author, or scroll down to see information
about all of the sessions.
Presenter
Room A
2:00 - 2:50 PM
"St. Ignatius on
the Psychiatric Ward: Spiritual Practices for a Multicultural
Setting"
Elizabeth Stanhope Gordon, JD, MDiv
PhD
Student
Graduate Theological Union
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"Evidence-based
Spiritual Care Best Practices"
Rev. John J. Gleason, DMin
ACPE
Supervisor Emeritus
Greenwood, Indiana
mariejohn50@att.net
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3:00 - 3:50 PM
"The Use of
Prayer in Clinical Practice: Implications for Professional Practice
and Education"
Michael J. Sheridan, PhD, MSW
Visiting
Scholar and Director of Research
Center for Spirituality and
Social Work
The Catholic University of America
sheridam@cua.edu
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"A
Randomized Clinical Intervention Study of the Effects
of Prayer on Subects with Depression and Anxiety"
Peter A. Boelens, MD, MPH
Chairman,
Christian Economic Corporation
Clinical Assistant Professor,
University of Mississippi
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4:00 - 4:50 PM
"Contemplative Religious
Practice and Medicine's Missing Dimension"
Ken Wilson, MD
Professor of
Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Duke University
kenneth.wilson@duke.edu
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"Buddhists'
Health and Religious Practices"
Bill Wiist, DHSc, MPH
Professor,
Department of Health Sciences
Northern Arizona University
Bill.Wiist@nau.edu
Co-authors:
Bruce Sullivan, PhD; Heidi Wayment, PhD; Meghan Warren, PhD
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2:00 - 2:50 PM
"Spirituality
in Public Health: Moving Beyond Population
Access to Understanding Communal Context and its Influence over
Health"
Elizabeth G. Hooten, MSPH, ScD
Research
Associate
Center for Spirituality, Theology
and Health
Duke University Medical Center
elizabeth.hooten@duke.edu
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"The
Response
of the Faith-Based Organizations to the Needs of people in Post
Datrina New Orleans"
Dr. William
Day
Professor
New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary
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3:00 - 3:50 PM
"Implementation
of The American Heart Association's Search
Your Heart Curriculum"
Suparna Bagchi, MSPH
Graduate
Research Assistant
Doctoral Student
UAB School of Public
Health
Co-author: Shauntice Allen
sallen1@uab.edu
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"Spiritual
Issues
that May impact the Well Being of Health Care Providers"
Patrick J O'Conner, MD, MPH
Senior
Clinical Investigator
HealthPartners Research Foundation
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4:00 - 4:50 PM
"An Analysis of
Spiritual Expression and Spiritual Care among Geriatric Nurses"
Anne E.
Belcher, PhD, RN, AOCN, CNE, FANE, FAAN
Senior
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
The Johns Hopkins
University School of Nursing
abelche2@son.jhmi.edu
Co-author:
Margaret Griffiths, MSN, RN
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"Measuring
Clinically Relevant Differences in
Physicians' Religious and Spiritual Characteristics"
Kenneth A. Rasinski, PhD
Research
Associate
Department of Medicine
The University of Chicago
Co-authors:
Farr A. Curlin, MD
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2:00 - 2:50 PM
"Enhanced
Spiritual Transformation in Cancer Patients
Following Intervention with peer Patient Narratives"
J. Patrick Daugherty, MD, DMin, PhD
Director
Northwest
Alabama Cancer Center
baraka@comcast.net
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"Utilization of
Religion and Spirituality by African American Cancer Patients in
Coping with their Illness"
Lee S. Caplan, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor
Morehouse
School of Medicine
lcaplan@msm.edu
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3:00 - 3:50 PM
"Stress
and
Religious Coping among People Living with HIV/AIDS"
Safiya George
Dalmida, PhD, APRN-BC
Visiting
Scholar, Assistant Professor
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of
Nursing
Emory University
sageorg@emory.edu
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"Paradigm Shift
towards Positive Health & Healthspan Outcomes in Orthospedic Events
for Ageing Diverse Populations"
Christine Grant, PhD
Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering
North Carolina State University
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4:00 - 4:50 PM
"Religious/Spiritual
Coping by Parents of Adolescents with Sickle
Cell Disease: A Pilot Study"
Daniel H. Grossoehme, DMin, BCC
Research
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine
Daniel.Grossoehme@cchmc.org
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"Depression
in College: How Does Religiosity Help?"
Devon Berry, BSN, MSN, PhD, RNC
Assistant
Professor
College of Nursning
University of Cincinnati
devon.berry@uc.edu
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2:00 - 2:50 PM
"The
contemporary
study of faith, health, and medicine: Negation and affirmation via a
historical perspective"
Amy L. Ai, PhD
Associate Professor
University
of Washington
amyai8@gmail.com
Co-author:
Monika Ardelt, PhD
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"What happens
next? Towards a narrative paradigm of a faith profession in adults
and an empirical study of religious outcomes"
Mrs. Caroline
Shepherd, MA
PhD Student
Heythrop
College University of London, UK
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3:00 - 3:50 PM
4:00 - 4:50 PM
"Making Sense of
Sadness: Depression, Theology and Pastoral Care in the Prozac Age"
Aaron Klink, MAR, MDiv
Chaplain
Resident
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Durham, NC
aaron.klink@duke.edu
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"Spirituality
and Practices of Caring: Unique Aspects of
Pastoral Care"
Rev. Dianne Bertolino, MDiv, ThM, PhD
Head
of Department Chaplaincy & Spiritual Services
Sir Charles
Gairdner Hospital, QEII Medical Centre
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2:00 - 2:50 PM
"Jewish
Perspectives
on Health, Healing and Wholeness"
Gila Silverman, MPH
PhD Student
University
of Arizona
gilas@email.arizona.edu
Co-author:
Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS
mprince@huc.edu
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"The
Contribution
of an Ideological vs. Instrumental Motherhood Orientation to the
Psychological Functioning of Religious Jewish Mothers of Large
Families"
Aryeh Lazar, PhD
Senior Lecturer and
Coordinator of I/O Psychology
Department of Behavioral Sciences
Ariel
University Center of Samaria
lazara@ariel.ac.il
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3:00 - 3:50 PM
"Developing
a
Practical Theology of Health and Wellness"
Rabbi Richard F. Address
Director,
Department of Jewish Family Concerns
Union for Reform Judaism
Adjunct
Professor, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
rfaddress@aol.com
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"Meaning of the
Experience of Spirituality at the End of Life"
Ann Marie
Dose, PhD, RN, APRN-BC
Clinical
Nurse Researcher
Department of Nursing
Mayo Clinic
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4:00 - 4:50 PM
"Acute Myocardial
Infarction: A Descriptive Study of the Experience"
Nancy D.
Blasdell, PhD, RN
Assistant
Professor
Rhode Island College School of Nursing
nancyrn007@cox.net
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"The
Use of Alternative
Therapies to Lower Blood Pressure in Older African Americans"
Susan J. Schumacher, PhD
Associate
Professor of Psychology
North Carolina A & T State University
drsueres@yahoo.com
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2:00 - 2:50 PM
"Health
and Human Flourishing among Clergy"
Mary Chase-Ziolek, PhD, RN
Director,
Center for Faith and Health
Professor of Health Ministries
North
Park Theological Seminary
mchase-ziolek@northpark.edu
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"The Effects of an
Interpersonal Forgiveness Intervention on the Personal and
Professional Lives of Clergy"
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3:00 - 3:50 PM
"A 3-Factor Model
for the FACIT-Sp"
Andrea Canada, PhD
Assistant
Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences
Rush University
Medical Center
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"Development and
validation of instruments to assess potential mechanisms of the
religion-health connection"
Cheryl L. Holt, PhD
Assistant
Professor
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
cholt@uab.edu
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4:00 - 4:50 PM
"Religious
and Spiritual Mediators for Psychosocial Health Risk
among African American Women"
Fleda Mask Jackson, PhD
Senior
Scientist
Atlanta Regional Health Forum
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"Sociocultural Factors
in Adolescent Depression"
Rachel E. Dew, MD, MHS
Assistant
Consulting Professor
Duke University Medical Center
red@geri.duke.edu
Co-Authors:
Stephanie S. Daniel, PhD; David B. Goldston, PhD; W. Vaughn
McCall, MD, MS; Cyrus Schleifer, MA; Mary Francis Triplett, MA;
Harold G. Koenig, MD MHSc
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