Papers by Michael Paterson
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 2013
Excerpted from a Keynote Address at the Annual Conference of the Association of Hospice and Palli... more Excerpted from a Keynote Address at the Annual Conference of the Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains, The Hayes Centre, Swanwick, 16 May 2011
Reflective Practice Formation and Supervision in Ministry, 2011
This series of articles has explored the changing face of contemporary healthcare chaplaincy. In ... more This series of articles has explored the changing face of contemporary healthcare chaplaincy. In this final article, the author proposes a way through disorientation (article one) and imbalances of power (article two) to a future in which patients offer a leading role in shaping chaplains' spirituality (ontology) and formation (epistemology).
In the first of this series of three articles in Health & Social Care Chaplaincy, the author empl... more In the first of this series of three articles in Health & Social Care Chaplaincy, the author employed Ricoeur's typology -orientation, disorientation, reorientationto explore Scottish healthcare chaplains' responses to the refocusing of spiritual care from a series of crisis-based hospital interventions to the promotion of wellbeing and resilience in local communities. In this second article the author treats this paradigm shift with a hermeneutic of suspicion and explores inherent issues of need, ability, value and power.
Institutionally-based crisis intervention, the traditional hallmark of healthcare chaplaincy, is ... more Institutionally-based crisis intervention, the traditional hallmark of healthcare chaplaincy, is under review as new initiatives in health and social care refocus the spotlight from responding to the needs of those in hospital to the promotion of wellbeing and resilience in local communities. In the first of three articles, the author reports the findings of a Review of Chaplaincy Education, Training and Formation conducted in Scotland in 2013. He explores the impact of shifting paradigms on healthcare chaplains using Ricoeur's typology of orientation, disorientation and reorientation.
Institutionally-based crisis intervention, the traditional hallmark of healthcare chaplaincy, is ... more Institutionally-based crisis intervention, the traditional hallmark of healthcare chaplaincy, is under review as new initiatives in health and social care refocus the spotlight from responding to the needs of those in hospital to the promotion of wellbeing and resilience in local communities. Employing Ricoeur's typologyorientation, disorientation, reorientation -this article outlines responses among serving chaplains some of whom are adapting and thriving in this brave new world while others seem derailed and dispirited. The disparity is explored using a valuesbased reflective hermeneutic. A way forward is offered premised upon chaplains' ability to allow patients to offer a leading co-productive role in shaping their spirituality (ontology) and formation (epistemology).
Reflective practice matches ontology (those who inhabit the being of a profession) with epistemol... more Reflective practice matches ontology (those who inhabit the being of a profession) with epistemology (how they arrive at "knowing" what to do and how to act). Nowhere are ontology and epistemology more clearly wedded together in an indissoluble bond than in the life of those who minister and whose tools of the trade are nothing less than the intentional use of the self. This article outlines a reflective method developed in Scotland among healthcare chaplains to encourage congruence between professional practice and personal values. Pastoral practice is presented using the verbatim approach to which group members respond using the three levels of seeing found in the Resurrection account of John 20. The tasks and responsibilities of those who facilitate are outlined and feedback from a pilot study offered.
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Papers by Michael Paterson