A comprehensive interdisciplinary program to develop, refine, implement, and evaluate a novel evidence-based spiritually integrated intervention for healthcare chaplaincy

Spiritual health clinicians (SHCs; healthcare chaplains) are vital members of interdisciplinary healthcare teams trained to address broad social and emotional patient and staff care needs within a pluralistic religious landscape. With an expanded breadth of SHC presence in hospital medicine, the last decade has seen an increase in the volume and rigor of research in healthcare chaplaincy, with lofty goals of optimizing clinical pastoral education for the needs of the modern chaplain, demonstrating the impact of spiritual health consults on patient outcomes, and improving outcomes for the many care-seekers with whom SHCs touch. Here, interdisciplinary scholars from Spiritual Health, Clinical and Health Psychology, and Anthropology will discuss a program of research to develop, refine, implement, and evaluate a novel evidence-based spiritually integrated intervention  - CCSH™ (Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health) –  that was developed to address the broad social and emotional care needs within the diverse and multi-cultural religious landscape of healthcare.