Fitchett George
Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
J Health Care Chaplain. 2011;17(1-2):3-18. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2011.559829.
Health care chaplaincy needs to develop a body of published case studies. Chaplains need these case studies to provide a foundation for further research about the efficacy of chaplains' spiritual care. Case studies can also play an important role in training new chaplains and in continuing education for experienced chaplains, not to mention educating health care colleagues and the public about the work of health care chaplains. Guidelines for writing case studies are described, herein, as is a project in which three experienced oncology chaplains worked together to write case studies about their work. Steps that chaplains, and professional chaplain organizations, can take to further the writing and publishing of case studies are described.
医疗保健牧师工作需要建立一批已发表的案例研究。牧师们需要这些案例研究来为进一步研究牧师精神关怀的功效提供基础。案例研究在培训新牧师以及为经验丰富的牧师提供继续教育方面也能发挥重要作用，更不用说向医疗保健同事和公众介绍医疗保健牧师的工作了。本文描述了撰写案例研究的指导方针，以及一个项目，在该项目中，三位经验丰富的肿瘤学牧师共同撰写了关于他们工作的案例研究。文中还描述了牧师以及专业牧师组织为推动案例研究的撰写和发表可以采取的步骤。
