12^th Annual Conference
Douzième Conférence anuelle
Abstracts/Résumé

May 12-14, 2005 / Du 12 au 14 Mai, 2005
Assumption University,
Windsor Ontario

Abstracts/Résumé

Title: Retraite et sens existentiel chez des personne âgées

Presenter: Judith Malette, Ph.D.

Saint Paul University,
223 Main Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1C4

Telephone: 613-236-1393

E-mail: jmalette@ustpaul.ca

Résumé

Au cours du XX^ième siècle, 30 ans se sont ajoutés à l’espérance de vie. Comment les personnes vieillissantes vivent-elles ces années «supplémentaires»? Que font-elles de leurs forces? Comment toutes leurs années antérieures peuvent-elles les aider à «mieux habiter leur vieillesse» (Houde ,1999), à mieux s’y adapter et à préparer leur avenir? Nous avons tenté de répondre à ces questions grâce à l’analyse de contenu de deux thèmes explorés dans le cadre d’une rétrospective de vie effectuée auprès de sept personnes âgées entre 65 et 75 ans, soit les thèmes «ma retraite» et «le sens de ma vie, mes aspirations mes buts». Chaque thème fit l’objet de deux rencontres de 60 minutes au domicile du sujet. L’analyse de contenu jumela l’utilisation de catégories préexistantes (Hétu, 2000 et Watt et Cappeliez, 1991) à des catégories à induire (il s’agit là du modèle mixte de L’Écuyer [1990]).

Title: Religion, health and the care of Seniors

Presenter: Annette M. Marche (M.A., Religious Studies)

Luther College University of Regina
2147 Cameron Street
Regina, Saskatchewan, S4T 2V7

Telephone: Business (306) 585-5652
Home: (306) 949-7573

E-mail: marchean@uregina.ca

Abstract

This paper examines research that identifies a relationship between religion and health to identify some points of consideration for the religious care of seniors. The interrelationship between the dimensions of health proposed by Donatelle, Davis, Munroe, and Munroe (2001) provides a framework for this investigation. While some studies point to negative outcomes of religion on health, there is also a significant body of research that identifies the positive influence of religion on health. Religious belief and practice for some can provide means of coping with the aging process, a sense of belonging, social support, and a sense of meaning and purpose to life.

Title: Music outside the box: Spiritual care for those with dementia

Presenter: Debra Crispin, MTS

St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Spiritual Care Department
50 Charlton Avenue East
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6

Telephone: Business (905) 522 - 4941 pager 160
Home: (519) 885 - 3560

E-mail: dcrispin@stjosham.on.ca

Abstract

This qualitative research examines the roles music can play in providing spiritual care for geriatric patients in an acute care hospital with mid to late stage dementia. The study reviews the literature, interviews professional care providers, family members and patients, analyzes the data and discusses implications for ministry.

Title: Phantom pain: The emotional and spiritual effects of amputation

Presenter: Erin Poole Fuller

152 Bowman Street
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 2T8

Telephone: Business: (905)522-1155 x3465
Home: (905)529-4828

E-mail: erinpoole@cogeco.ca

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to observe how a major amputation (i.e. arm, leg or writing hand) impacts a person’s self-image and sense of meaning/purpose in life. The Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal units at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, will serve as the setting for the study, which will focus on relatively new amputees (less than a month since the amputation was done). Ten participants will be involved in the study, and semi-standardized interviews will be the primary method of data collection. Standardized content analysis will be used to interpret the data collected. The results of the study should accurately describe what effect – if any– limb loss has on a person’s perception of his/her self and meaning/purpose in life. Amputees, their family members, and their multi-disciplinary caregivers, could all benefit from the analysis that the study will provide. My hope is that the study will offer greater insight into the emotional and spiritual needs of an amputee, as well as highlighting the emotional/ spiritual resources and supports that the person already has access to.

Title: Chaplaincy on a clinical teaching unit

Presenter: Jolene Felsbourg-Linton

25 Wildan Dr. RR#2
Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 2Z7

Telephone: 905-522-1155

Email: jolenelntn@yahoo.com

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine medical residents' level of awareness, use of, and perception of chaplaincy while working in an academic hospital. The setting of this study will be primarily on the Clinical Teaching Unit of St Joseph's Hospital Campus in Hamilton Ontario. This will be a qualitative research project using a combination of ethnographic field notes and the semi-standardized interview method. Approximately, six to ten medical residents, of no specific specialization, will be the focus of the study. The focus of the questions in the interview process are intended to determine how medical residents have experienced chaplains and spiritual care providers as a part of the multi-disciplinary team on a Clinical Teaching Unit. The results of this study should accurately describe what kind of impact chaplaincy has had on medical residents' experience in a teaching hospital setting. Primarily, the interpretation of information provided by the medical residents will be useful for chaplains and spiritual care providers for improving their support and care for the medical residents during their placement on a CTU. A secondary benefit of this research is to increase the medical residents' awareness and use of the chaplain as a part of the multi-disciplinary team while they are still in the residency phase of their medical careers.

Title: A qualitative study of perpetual parenthood from a pastoral care and counselling perspective

Presenter: Timothy William Dobbin, DMin

E-mail: twd@skynet.ca

Abstract

Faith and Light is a Christian community that exists for people with an intellectual disability, their families and their friends, and that meets monthly to reflect on Scripture, to pray and to celebrate together. It promotes presence to one another and friendship amongst its members. This ethnographic study explored how parents from a local community experienced the “launching” phase of the family life cycle. Analysis of data from focus groups, from participant observation as a chaplain, and from informal interviews revealed particular aspects of parents experiences, including: challenges parents face, particularly with regard abuse and the need to advocate; concerns over the adequacy of care their offspring receive; the impact of the various life cycle transitions; and their investment in their offspring and peculiar knowledge of them. I suggest that a phenomenon of “perpetual parenthood” undergirds these themes: parents understand their responsibilities for their offspring with an intellectual disability as being life-long, such that launching may never occur. A central existential ambivalence for these parents is that of holding on versus letting go, where parents discover and create their own provisional balance in the dilemma. Parents identified several attributes of Faith and Light’s community life that were helpful to them (mutual support and understanding, interaction, welcome and friendship), and to their offspring (revealing their beauty and giftedness, growth and friendship, Christian formation, listening and acceptance). Faith and Light’s provision of care to parent members models aspects of “a theological pastoral care and counselling.” This approach locates pastoral care and counselling ecclesially, and proposes an asymmetrical relationship between the disciplines of theology and related social sciences, where the pastoral career, working within an explicitly Christian meta-narrative, has recourse to insights from related secular disciplines on an ad hoc basis. The study concludes with an exploration of how, on the basis of this relationship, the three foci of enquiry, namely Faith and Light, the phenomenon of perpetual parenthood, and a theological pastoral care and counselling, might inform each other.

Title: Hope beyond the hurt

Presenter: Rhonda Klein

Fountain of Grace Pastoral Care and Counselling Service
587 Leighland Drive
Waterloo, Ontario, N2T 2J9.

Telephone: (519) 747-7787

E-mail: fountainofgrace@hotmail.com

Abstract

This qualitative research study examines how people with the dual diagnosis of Acquired Brain Injury and Psychiatric Disorder locate, develop and use their spirituality. This study provides a review of the literature, interviews with clients and experts in the field, an analysis of the data, a discussion of the conclusions and the implications for pastoral counselling, chaplaincy, and therapy.

Title: Hear my voice, open the door, I will come (Revelations 3:20)

Presenter: Jill Mackay, MTS (Cand)

Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
#201-111 Onward Ave.
Kitchener, Ontario N2H 3J8

Telephone: (519) 744-9217

E-mail: omyoga2002@yahoo.ca

Abstract

This is a qualitative study of how various professionals, from both clerical and clinical fields, interpret a “mystical” experience a women had. The “vision” she experienced appeared prophetic and had a positive effect on her life. The woman has no history of mental illness. It raises the question of whether some mystical experiences patients have are genuine and whether consultation with pastoral counsellors would be beneficial to distinguish and honour the patients’ experience. This study incorporates a literature review and interviews, and discusses the implications for pastoral counselling.

Title: Siamese twins: Reflections on the Canadian experience of spirituality and health from a pastoral care and counseling perspective

Presenters: Thomas St. James O’Connor, ThD
Elizabeth Meakes, MTS

107 Borden Avenue
Kitchener, Ontario
N2H 3J2

Telephone: 905-521-2100 Ext 77769

E-Mail: toconnor@wlu.ca | emeakes@stjosham.on.ca

Abstract

This workshop examines the various kinds of research on spirituality and health produced in the Canadian context. It analyzes what research methods are utilized and offers suggestions on how others might do research on this topic in the Canadian context.

Title: Holistic applications of counselling with the elderly in dialogue with pastoral care concerns

Presenter: Randolph Bowers, Ph.D.

School of Health
University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2350
Australia

Telephone : 61 (2) 6773 3681

Fax: 61 (2) 6773 3666

Email: rbowers@une.edu.au

Abstract

Studies indicate that the influence of institutionalized religion is waning in most Western nations. In contrast, personal, spiritual, and subjective approaches to faith are on the rise. The latter may or may not relate to traditional Christian frameworks. These trends are most apparent with the aging 'baby boomer' population, thus changing notions of pastoral care in many countries. Counselling, as a secular and scientific modality, is well placed to meet the needs of a highly educated and articulate aging population whose values are, in many ways, representative of 'post-Christian' and 'post-Colonial' worldviews. Exploring the applications of counselling in dialogue with pastoral care for the aging is a new area for practice and research. This paper explores these issues in light of a holistic model of counselling that honors how meaning and spirituality is constructed in everyday life through personal and social experiences.

Title: Ageing and spiritual care in cultural and religious context

Presenter: Nazila Isgandarova

St.Joseph’s Healthcare
50 Charlton Avenue East
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6

Telephone: 905-522-6174

E-mail: nazakbar@hotmail.com

Abstract

This presentation demonstrates how ageing and spiritual care is viewed in cultural and religious context. The main focus of the presentation will be on research interviews with Muslim and also non-Muslim patients from the Middle East. This paper will provide information about Islam and ageing, compare the Western and Eastern concepts of ageing, and define the major spiritual needs of Muslim and non-Muslin patients from the Middle East. The paper concludes with ideas how spiritual care should be provided to Muslim and non-Muslim patients from the Middle East.

Title: When Aging Parents Come Back to Us: Family of Origin Dynamics

Presenter: Martin Rovers

St. Paul University
223 Main Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1C4

Telephone: 613-236-1393 Ext. 2301

E-mail mrovers@ustpaul.ca

Abstract

The care of aging parent(s), whether now sick or dying, can cause new distress in a family system. One adult child is often “recruited” to do the caregiving. These adult caregivers can feel sandwiched between caring for aging parent(s) and helping their own children launch into adulthood. A careful review of family of origin dynamics might better enable adult children to work through the strengths and stresses of this caregiving. Bowen Theory outlines relevant principles that may educate and prepare families for this caregiving role. Common family stresses are reviewed. A case study is provided.

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