Article Title：In a secular spirit: Strategies of clinical pastoral education
Abstract：
The Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) model for the provision of spiritual care represents the emergence of a secularized professional practice from a religiously-based theological practice of chaplaincy. The transformation of hospital chaplaincy into spiritual care services is one means by which religious healthcare ministry negotiates modernity, in the particular forms of the secular realm of biomedicine and the pluralism of the contemporary United States healthcare marketplace. Spiritual is a label strategically deployed to extend the realm of relevance to any patient's belief system, regardless of his or her religious affiliation. Theological language is recast as a tool for conceptualizing the spiritual lens. Such moves transform chaplaincy from a peripheral service, applicable only to the few religious patients, into an integral element of patient care for all. Such a secularized professional practice is necessary to demonstrate the relevance and utility of spiritual care for all hospital patients in an era of cost-containment priorities and managed care economics.
Keywords: chaplaincy; professionalization; professional ethics; religious pluralism; secularization; theology
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023423125939
Source：HEALTH CARE ANALYSIS
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