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Abstract
Research on healthcare chaplaincy-identity over the years has to a large extent, been both theory-driven and less pronounced in the field of chaplaincy. While this research has contributed important insights, it has also called for empirical/qualitative research, which can add to the growing need for research that complements and nuances theoretical frameworks and suggestions. This article presents an in-depth narrative identity analysis of a hospital chaplain who has served two decades within the healthcare context. The rationale for this case was to specifically explore how a full-time position as a hospital chaplain, coupled with extensive experience within a secularized context organized around medical expertise and other important social and spiritual factors, forged a specific chaplain character, which consisted of six overarching core features or identity markers. The findings from this case study broadens existing knowledge, while also confirming existing theoretical positions. Future research is warranted, in order to display potential additional core features of hospital chaplains, explore contextual identity markers associated to other contexts, and to employ these core features in top-down research or as deductive categories in qualitative research.
Abstrakt (på Svenska): Från teori till praktik i presentationen av kärnegenskaper i en svensk sjukhussjälavårdares identitet: En fallstudieanalys Identitetsforskning om själavårdare i sjukhusmiljö har genom åren i stor utsträckning varit både teoridriven och mindre uttalad inom området sjukhussjälavård. Även om denna forskning har bidragit med viktiga insikter, har den också efterlyst empirisk och kvalitativ forskning som kan öka det växande behovet av forskning som kompletterar och nyanserar teoretiska ansatser. Denna artikel presenterar en narrativ identitetsanalys av en sjukhussjälavårdare som tjänstgjort i två decennier inom en sjukvårdskontext. Syftet med fallstudien var att specifikt utforska hur en heltidstjänst som sjukhussjälavårdare i kombination med lång erfarenhet inom ett sekulariserat sammanhang organiserat runt medicinsk expertis och andra viktiga sociala och andliga faktorer, skapade en specifik själavårdskaraktär som bestod av sex övergripande kärnegenskaper eller identitetsmarkörer. Resultatet från denna fallstudie vidgar befintlig kunskap samtidigt som existerande teoretiska ansatser bekräftas. Fortsatt forskning är viktigt för att avtäcka andra möjliga narrativa kärnegenskaper hos sjukhussjälavårdare, utforska kontextuella identitetsmarkörer som hänger ihop med andra kontexter och att använda dessa fynd i kvantitativ forskning eller som deduktiva kategorier inom kvalitativ forskning.
期刊介绍:
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is a peer-reviewed, international journal that assists health and social care chaplains to explore the art and science of spiritual care within a variety of contexts. The journal was founded in 2013 through the merger of the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (issn:1748-801X) and the Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy (issn:1463-9920) . It continues to be the official journal of the College of Health Care Chaplains and members of the society receive the journal as part of their annual membership. For more details on membership subscriptions, please click on the ''members'' button at the top of this page. Back issues of both previous journals are being loaded onto this website (see Archives) and online access to these back issues is included in all institutional subscriptions. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion of a range of issues related to the delivery of spiritual care across various settings: acute, paediatric, mental health, palliative care and community. It encourages a creative collaboration and interface between health and social care practitioners in the UK and internationally and consolidates different traditions of discourse and communication research in its commitment to an understanding of psychosocial, cultural and ethical aspects of healthcare in contemporary societies. It is responsive to both ecumenical and interfaith agendas as well as those from a humanist perspective.