Poster Presentations
Below you will find information from the Poster Session and the 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Spirituality, Theology and Health. You may click on the presenting author's last name or scroll down to view all of the poster titles.
Presenter
“Religious and Nonreligious Coping in Jewish
Adults Who Have Had Heart Surgery"Erica A. Abel, PhD
Adelphi
University
Co-authors: Jonathan Whiteson, M.D., Mariano J. Rey
M.D., Ana Mola ANP
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“Creating a Theology of Healthy Aging: The
Power of Sacred Relationships”
Rabbi Richard F. Address, DMin
Director,
Department of Jewish Family Concerns,
Union for Reform Judaism
Adjuct
Professor, Hebrew Union College —Jewish Institute of Religion
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“Dialectics in the 19th century Germany and
counteracting pathways of prayer coping to the short-term postoperative
adjustment in cardiac surgery patients”
Amy L. Ai, PhD
Associate
Professor
University of Washington
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“Finding God through Weight Loss”
Jean
Renfro Anspaugh
Researcher
Inova Health System
jeananspaugh@verizon.net
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“Physics and Psychoanalysis: The Influence of
Spirituality on Physical and Mental Health”
Denise de Assis
Psychologist
and Systems Analyst
CLITOP —Cultural Association, Center of Mental
Health Study and Treatment
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“The Role of African American Health
Ministries in Promoting Healthy Behaviors among Type II Diabetics”
Sandra
Austin, MSW, EdD
Assistant Professor
School of Social Welfare
University
at Albany
saustin@albany.edu
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“Illness Linked to Unhealed (Early) Broken
Love Bonds”
Marieluisa Auterson, MA, MA
Adlerian
Psychotherapist
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“Prayer Paths”
E. James Baesler,
PhD
Assistant Professor of Communication
Old Dominion
University
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“The Adolescent Religious Support Scale:
Initial Psychometrics”
Jeffrey P. Bjorck, PhD
Professor
of Psychology
Fuller Theological Seminary
Graduate School of
Psychology
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“Does a Credible God Heal People?”
Saul
Boyarsky, MD, JD
Consulting Associate, Department of Urology
Duke
University Medical Center
saulboyarsky@gmail.com
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“Thrust into the LymeLight: Reconciling the
head and heart of a spiritual life while confronting a serious illness”
Michele
Kielty Briggs, PhD
Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology
James
Madison University
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“Solomon, Woodruff, and Caputo: Spirituality
and Psychosocial Rehabilitation”
Gordon F. Butler, MDiv
Director/Teacher,
Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Bluebonnet Trails MHMR
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“Brief Survey of Pharmacy Students and
Spirituality”
John W. Campbell PhD, MBA, MS, CCC-SLP
Director
of Research, Oklahoma Health Center
Clinical Pastoral Education
Institute, Inc.
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Don W.
Reynolds
Department of Geriatric Medicine
Associate Director, Oklahoma Center
for
Neuroscience, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
john-w-campbell@ouhsc.edu
Ken.Blank@va.gov
www.cpeokc.org
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“Spiritual growth and its association with
medical and psychological outcomes among participants of a mind-body
cardiac program”
Bei-Hung Chang, ScD
Associate
Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
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“Pilate Syndrome or Pleasing Others
to Death: Blind Spots, Unanswered Questions and the Truth”
The
Very Reverend Protopresbyter Constantine A. Constantopoulos, PhD
Chancellor,
Holy Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Moria, the United Kingdom & Exarchate
of the Atlantic
Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies,
and President & CEO, Intercontinental Open University
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“Challenges and Implications for Measuring
Religiosity/Spirituality in Adolescent Health Outcomes Research”
Sian
Cotton, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati
Academic Health Center
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“Religious Beliefs and Practices Have a
Role in Grieving after Perinatal Loss"
Rabbi Doctor F. Susan
Cowchock
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Spirituality, Theology,
and Health
Duke University Medical Center
Co-authors: Lasker
JN, Toedter L, Skumanich SA, Lohmann JK, Koenig H
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“Religion/Spirituality and Adolescent
Psychiatric Symptoms: A Review”
Rachel E. Dew MD MHS
Assistant
Consulting Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Co-authors:
Stephanie S. Daniel PhD, Tonya D. Armstrong PhD, David B. Goldston PhD,
Mary Francis Triplett MA, Harold G. Koenig MD MHSc
red@geri.duke.edu
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“Religion, Spirituality and Depression in Adolescent Psychiatric
Outpatients”
Rachel E. Dew MD MHS
Assistant
Consulting Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Co-authors:
Stephanie S. Daniel PhD, David B. Goldston PhD, Harold G. Koenig, MD,
MHSc
red@geri.duke.edu
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“Godly Play: Physical, Emotional and
spiritual Responses of Chronically Ill Hospitalized Children”
Joan
Farrell, PhD
Professor of Public Health
University of North
Florida
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“How Religious Beliefs can Directly Affect
Brain Function and Mental Health:
ETAS Theory”
Kevin J.
Flannelly, PhD
Associate Director of Research
The HealthCare
Chaplaincy
Co-authors: Kathleen Galek, PhD, Harold G. Koenig, MD,
MHSc, Christopher G. Ellison, PhD
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“The Importance of Cognitions in Measuring Spirituality and Religion:
The Case for Personal Theological Beliefs”
Kevin J.
Flannelly, PhD
Associate Director of Research
The HealthCare
Chaplaincy
Co-authors: Kathleen Galek, Ph.D., Mathew Porter, Ph.D.
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“Spiritual Fitness Assessment and 18
Spiritual Exercises for a Healthier Life”
Dale Fletcher, MS
Founder
Faith
and Health Connection
dale@faithandhealthconnection.org
www.faithandhealthconnection.org
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“Divine Relations Reconsidered: Predictors of
Divine Relations and Their Effect on Self-Rated Health”
Steven
M. Frenk
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
Duke University
steven.frenk@duke.edu
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“NC Hospitals Bereavement Support Service:
The Impact Made Visible”
Heidi G. Gessner, MDiv
Bereavement
Coordinator & Burn Chaplain
UNC Hospitals
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“Integrating Spirituality & Medicine: Toward
Discovering a Causal Relationship between Spiritual Care Intervention
and Decreased Fatigue, Dyspnea, and Depression in COPD Patients”
Rev.
Jack D. Giddens, D.Mn
Chaplain
Covenant Hospice, Inc.
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“Race, ethnicity, and prayer for health
reasons”
F. Gillum, MD, MS
Visiting Lecturer
Howard
University School of Divinity
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“Religiousness and altruism: The case of blood donation”
F.
Gillum, MD, MS
Visiting Lecturer
Howard University School of
Divinity
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“Smokeless tobacco use and religiousness”
F. Gillum,
MD, MS
Visiting Lecturer
Howard University School of Divinity
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“Evidence-based Spiritual Care Best
Practices”
John J. Gleason, DMin, BCC, AAPC
Pastoral
Educator
St. Vincent Hospital
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“Meaningful Life as a Psychiatric Treatment
Goal: An Ethnography of Hope”
Elizabeth Stanhope Gordon, JD,
MDiv
PhD student, Graduate Theological Union
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“Transpersonal Presence in Therapy: A Case
Study”
Jamal Granick, M.S., MFT
Ph.D. student at the
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
jamalg@sbcglobal.net
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“Coverings of the Self: The Koshas as a
Model of Integrated Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Well-Being”
Carol
Haefner
PhD student (year 3) at the Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology
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“Associations among Distal and Proximal
Spirituality and Health Behavior in Adolescents”
Andrea I.
Hart, MPH, CHES
Research Associate
Addictive & Health
Behaviors Research Institute
University of Florida
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“Objective and Subjective Fit with
Congregational Norms as a Mediator of Life Satisfaction”
R.
David Hayward, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for
Spirituality, Theology and Health
Duke University Medical Center
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“Psychotherapy and Grace: The Role of
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth”
Christopher J. Howard, PsyD
Adjunct
Faculty
Antioch University
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“Public School Teachers’ Religiousness and
Sense of Efficacy in Dealing with Professional Challenges”
Shin
Ji Kang, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Education,
Cumberland University
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“Spirituality and Well-Being: Testing Family
Spiritual Interdependence Theory”
Suk-Sun Kim, PhD, MS, RN
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow
Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health
Duke
University Medical Center
suksunkim@gmail.com
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“Taking a Spiritual History in a
Clinical Setting”
Mark LaRocca-Pitts, PhD, BCC
Staff
Chaplain, Athens Regional Medical Center
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“The Contribution of Religiousness and
Humanistic Spirituality to Depression, Life Satisfaction and Work
Satisfaction among Israeli Nurses”
Aryeh Lazar, PhD
Senior
Lecturer and Coordinator of I/O Psychology
Department of Behavioral
Sciences
Ariel University Center of Samaria, Ariel, Israel
lazara@ariel.ac.il
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“Religiousness and Adolescent Sexual
Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review”
Steven M. Lucero
Katherine
G. Kusner
Emily A. Speace
Graduate Research Assistants
Bowling
Green State University
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“Faith-Health Synergies among Black Baptist”
Sandy
D. Maclin, Jr MDiv
Research Assistant
Interdenominational
Theological Center/Institute for Faith-Health Leadership
sandymaclin@yahoo.com
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“Spiritual Care and Nurture of Clergy”
The
Rev. Dr. Lois D Martin
Pastor of Beaver Lutheran Church (ELCA)
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“This is a place of hope. It’s a place of
light. I like it.”
Rev. Marisa McNeil, MDiv, BCC
Chaplain,
Denton State School
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“Voices without Violence: Evolving Self-
Awareness in Human Consciousness”
Timothy L. McNeil, DMin,
LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Executive Director
Genesis
Counseling Center
tmcneil@firstunited.org
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“Transformative Forgiveness Following
Severe Trauma”
Gabriela Mihalache
PhD Student
—Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
gabimiha@verizon.net
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“Daily Spiritual Experiences and Perceived
Quality of Life of Young Adult Women: Exploring the Impact of Intimate
Partner Violence (A Pilot Study)”
Carolyn J. Nickerson MSN,
MA, EdD, RN
Associate Professor
Duquesne University School of
Nursing
Co-authors: Alison Colbert PhD, APRN-BC; Rick Zoucha PhD,
APRN, BC, CTN, Jennifer Behun BSN, RN
nickersonc@duq.edu
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“Religious/Spiritual CAM in the Foreign-Born
Population of the United States”
Paul D. Numrich
Theological
Consortium of Greater Columbus and Loyola University Chicago
Christine
Numrich
University of Illinois at Urbana–hampaign
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“Homeless Retreats: and Oasis”
Margaret
O’Donnell, MS DMin
Founder
Oasis Society for the
Spiritual Health of Victoria
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“Placebos in Pain Management— Tangible Reason
to Return to the Non-Conceptual?”
Steven Pashko, PhD
Steven.Pashko@mindspring.com
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“Patients’ Expectations of Hospital
Chaplains”
Katherine M. Piderman, PhD
Chaplain,
Coordinator Research, Mayo Clinic Department of Chaplain Services
Assistant
Professor of Psychology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Co-authors:
Rev. Dean V. Marek, BA, Sarah M. Jenkins, MS, Mary E. Johnson, MA, Rev.
James F. Buryska, STL, Paul S. Mueller, MD
piderman.katherine@mayo.edu
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“An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching
Spirituality to Health Care Provider Students”
Mary Ellen
Quinn, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
Medical College of Georgia
School of Nursing
Co-authors: Mark LaRocca-Pitts, PhD, BCC; Susan
Adams, FNP, RN; Christy Berding, DNP, RN; Ginger Fidel, MSN, RN; Stacey
Kolomer, PhD, MSSW
mquinn@mcg.edu
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“Parish Nursing —Compassion in a Community
Context”
Camille Ratliff
Trinity 2010
International
and Comparative Area Studies
Major Global Health Certificate
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“Spiritually-based Colorectal Cancer
Education: Feasibility of implementation and preliminary evaluation”
Chastity
Roberts McDavid, PhD, MPH
Program Coordinator
Division
of Preventative Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham, School
of Medicine
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“Promotion of Holistic Health via Excellent
Family Planning: A Catholic Perspective”
Fr. Christopher M.
Saliga, OP, RN
University Chaplain
Walsh University
Ethics
Consultant, Dominican Friars
Health Care Ministry of New York, NY
csaliga@walsh.edu
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“Congregations for Public Health: Answering
the CALL to Address Health Disparities”
Theolishia Smith,
MPH, ATC
Program Manager
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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“Diabetes Prevention Program in Parishes: The
Role of Faith Communities in Primary Prevention”
James K.
Struve MD, MS
Family Physician and Geriatrician
Bloomington
Lake Clinic
stru0114@umn.edu
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“Religious Organizations’Responses to
HIV/AIDS: Preliminary Findings from the Cincinnati Study”
Magdalena
Szaflarski, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of
Public Health Sciences
University of Cincinnati
Co-authors:
Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH; C. Jeffrey Jacobson, PhD; P. Neal Ritchey, PhD;
Rhys H. Williams, PhD; Susan N. Sherman, PhD; Sian Cotton, PhD
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“Using Outreach to Meet the Spiritual Needs
of Cancer Patients and Their Family Members”
Lyn Thompson
Spiritual
Outreach Coordinator
(and cancer survivor)
Cancer Treatment
Centers of America
Southwestern Regional Medical Center
Lyn.Thompson@ctca-hope.com
www.ourjourneyofhope.com
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“The Impact of Hurricaine Katrina Upon Faith
Communities in New Orleans, LA
Leah M. Vaughan, MD, MPH
Public
Health Researcher
Community Maps
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“Being and Doing: The Relationship of
Mindfullness to Buddhist’ Psychological and Physical Health”
Heidi
A. Wayment, PhD
Professor and Department Chair
Department of
Psychology
Northern Arizona University
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“Upgrading the Immune System through
Multiple Composite Frequencies”
Mary S. Wheeler, PhD
Exec.
Director
Energy Healing Partners, Inc.
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“Spiritual Care Resource Nurse Program”
Bishop
Bruce D. Wright PhD
Manager, Department of Spiritual Care,
University
Community Hospital
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“The Therapeutic Interface of Theology,
Justice and Health Care: A Dialectical Approach”
Laurabeth
Wyatt
Volunteer Chaplain
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital
laurabeth_wyatt@comcast.net
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“The Biblical book of Job as a Model for
Spirituality, Health and Human Flourishing”
Edie T. Young,
MBA
