Larry Vandecreek
Biographic Data
| ID | 339554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Vandecreek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandecreek |
| SIGNATURE | VANDECREEK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio State University Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving: Foundations for Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy
Structure your ministry to start with patients’needs, hopes, and resources and to be clear what difference your ministry can make!Hospital chaplains value who they are and what they do as contributions to patients’and families’healing and well-being. And they are continually stretching to enhance their ministries. Hospital administrators and other professionals on the care teams, however, often need help to grasp those same values in outcome orie…
The Religious Life During Suicide Bereavement: A Description
This exploratory study gathered narratives from 10 female suicide survivors, exploring 3 dimensions of their religious life during bereavement: (a) the function of the survivor's personal religion; (b) the function of religious support from family and friends; and (c) the function of established religious communities. Ten themes emerged from the narratives: afterlife destiny of the loved one, a more spiritual perspective, the impact on religious …
Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
(2002). Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform? Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. xxi-xxii
Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
(2002). Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform? Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol. 12, No. 1-2, pp. xxi-xxii
Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplanincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
(2002). Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplanincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform? Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. xix-xx
Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
Praying About Difficult Experiences as Self-Disclosure to God
The psychological literature reports that 4 linguistic characteristics of disclosure narratives are associated with personal benefits. These characteristics are causal statements, expressions of insight, and words denoting negative and positive emotions. This study explored whether prayers for help with difficult personal experiences contained similar linguistic characteristics. Participants (N = 66) wrote either disclosures, letters to God, or e…
How Many Chaplains Per 100 Inpatients? Benchmarks of Health Care Chaplaincy Departments
Reports the results of a questionnaire survey of a sample of chaplaincy departments directors (N=370) designed to answer the following questions: How many chaplains do various types of hospitals employ per 100 inpatients? What is the relationship between the number of employed chaplains and departmental Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) programs? How much effort do departments give to outpatient ministry? What percentage of ministry do volunteer …
Should Physicians Prescribe Religious Activities?
There is increasing interest among the general public and the medical community in the role of religion in medicine. Polls indicate that the U.S. population is highly religious; most people believe in heaven and hell,1 the healing power of prayer,2 and the capacity of faith to aid in the recovery from disease.3 The popular press has published many articles in which religious faith and practice have been said to promote comfort, healing, or both. …
How Has Health Care Reform Affected Professional Chaplaincy Programs and How Are Department Directors Responding
No published studies were identified that describe the impact of health care reform on professional chaplaincy departments in hospital settings. Results from a random sample (N = 370) of department directors indicate that 45 percent report no budgetary consequences, 27 percent have experienced budgetary cutbacks, and 17 percent describe departmental growth. The cutbacks most often involve the loss of staff chaplain positions. Directors also descr…
Should Physicians Discuss Spiritual Concerns with Patients?
The Vigil: Religion and the Search for Control in the Hospital Waiting Room
This study examined how religion is involved in achieving a sense of personal control in a situation that evokes feelings of distress and vulnerability. One hundred and fifty family members, waiting in the hospital while their relative underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, completed a survey about their methods of coping, event-specific outcomes, and adjustment (depression and anxiety). As predicted, religious methods of coping designed to ac…
Exploring Intercessory Prayer
Response to the Responses
Selected Books of Interest
The Parish Clergy's Ministry of Prayer with Hospitalized Parishioners
Previous reports suggest that clergy frequently pray with parishioners during hospital visits. In this study, 286 parish clergy and lay volunteers characterize these prayers as meditative, liturgical, or extemporaneous. Content for the latter two categories is further described as intercession, confession, or thanksgiving/praise. Respondents reported 44,403 hospital pastoral visits during the previous year and most, regardless of faith group, est…
Barriers that predict resistance to completing a living will
We sought to identify perceived barriers and benefits to completing living wills for 176 medical outpatients or their family members, using a questionnaire based on the Health Belief Model. The regression equation of the patient data identified two items that functioned as significant barriers: "I am not very interested in a living will because I believe that I will live a lot longer," and "Completing a living will now is difficult because I woul…
The General Hospital Chaplain's Ministry: Analysis of Productivity, Quality and Cost
Chaplains usually assume that cost containment concerns are a negative influence on their ministry. We argue that they can be a positive opportunity to demonstrate cost efficiency. We describe here a pilot project that gathered data for two months from three university general hospital pastoral care departments concerning the number of pastoral contacts, the time used in these contacts, the quality of pastoral services delivered, and the costs in…
Where there's life, There's hope, and where there is hope, there is
Use of the threat index with family members Waiting during surgery
We describe the use of the 40-item Threat Index (TI) with family members (N = 206) of surgical patients who also completed Templer's (1970) Death Anxiety Scale, the Death-of-Self and Dying-of-Self subscales of the Collett-Lester (1969) Fear of Death Scale, and the Death Acceptance subscale of Reker and Peacock's (1992) Life Attitude Profile-Revised. Word sets from the 40-item TI that are part of the 25- and 7-item versions of the TI produced stro…
Testing the Death Transcendence Scale
Using theoretical work by Lifton, psychologists of religion have reported some preliminary conceptual foundations for a theory of death transcendence and a five-factor scale to measure it. No published reports have tested this scale beyond the original authors' work with college students. Our study describes factor analysis and reliability results from its use with community persons (Study 1; N = 166) as well as hospital patients and family membe…
Understanding Physicians: An Educational History and Brief Practice Profile
Physicians experience years of scientific training and practice with emphasis on objectivity, personal sacrifice in favor of career, struggle to survive demands/pressures, and the need to save life. These themes differ significantly from those experienced by chaplains. Chaplains can strengthen their relationships with physicians when they appreciate this thematic difference. This article describes the process of medical education, including resid…
The spiritual well-being and need of parishioners
The Chaplain as Hospital Ethicist in the Cost Containment Struggle
How can quality health care be maintained in the era of cost containment? This article argues that allegiance to relevant ethical principles at the root of the health car process is necessary and that the chaplain can make an important contribution by discussing them within the institution. This article seeks to be a resource to such discussions and presents three fundamental ethical assumptions and three specific principles which can aid in shap…
The Vigil: Religion and the Search for Control in the Hospital Waiting Room
This study examined how religion is involved in achieving a sense of personal control in a situation that evokes feelings of distress and vulnerability. One hundred and fifty family members, waiting in the hospital while their relative underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, completed a survey about their methods of coping, event-specific outcomes, and adjustment (depression and anxiety). As predicted, religious methods of coping designed to ac…
The Religious Life During Suicide Bereavement: A Description
This exploratory study gathered narratives from 10 female suicide survivors, exploring 3 dimensions of their religious life during bereavement: (a) the function of the survivor's personal religion; (b) the function of religious support from family and friends; and (c) the function of established religious communities. Ten themes emerged from the narratives: afterlife destiny of the loved one, a more spiritual perspective, the impact on religious …
Barriers that predict resistance to completing a living will
We sought to identify perceived barriers and benefits to completing living wills for 176 medical outpatients or their family members, using a questionnaire based on the Health Belief Model. The regression equation of the patient data identified two items that functioned as significant barriers: "I am not very interested in a living will because I believe that I will live a lot longer," and "Completing a living will now is difficult because I woul…
Use of the threat index with family members Waiting during surgery
We describe the use of the 40-item Threat Index (TI) with family members (N = 206) of surgical patients who also completed Templer's (1970) Death Anxiety Scale, the Death-of-Self and Dying-of-Self subscales of the Collett-Lester (1969) Fear of Death Scale, and the Death Acceptance subscale of Reker and Peacock's (1992) Life Attitude Profile-Revised. Word sets from the 40-item TI that are part of the 25- and 7-item versions of the TI produced stro…
Praying About Difficult Experiences as Self-Disclosure to God
The psychological literature reports that 4 linguistic characteristics of disclosure narratives are associated with personal benefits. These characteristics are causal statements, expressions of insight, and words denoting negative and positive emotions. This study explored whether prayers for help with difficult personal experiences contained similar linguistic characteristics. Participants (N = 66) wrote either disclosures, letters to God, or e…
Testing the Death Transcendence Scale
Using theoretical work by Lifton, psychologists of religion have reported some preliminary conceptual foundations for a theory of death transcendence and a five-factor scale to measure it. No published reports have tested this scale beyond the original authors' work with college students. Our study describes factor analysis and reliability results from its use with community persons (Study 1; N = 166) as well as hospital patients and family membe…
The Chaplain as Hospital Ethicist in the Cost Containment Struggle
How can quality health care be maintained in the era of cost containment? This article argues that allegiance to relevant ethical principles at the root of the health car process is necessary and that the chaplain can make an important contribution by discussing them within the institution. This article seeks to be a resource to such discussions and presents three fundamental ethical assumptions and three specific principles which can aid in shap…
Understanding Physicians: An Educational History and Brief Practice Profile
Physicians experience years of scientific training and practice with emphasis on objectivity, personal sacrifice in favor of career, struggle to survive demands/pressures, and the need to save life. These themes differ significantly from those experienced by chaplains. Chaplains can strengthen their relationships with physicians when they appreciate this thematic difference. This article describes the process of medical education, including resid…
The spiritual well-being and need of parishioners
Testing the Death Transcendence Scale
Using theoretical work by Lifton, psychologists of religion have reported some preliminary conceptual foundations for a theory of death transcendence and a five-factor scale to measure it. No published reports have tested this scale beyond the original authors' work with college students. Our study describes factor analysis and reliability results from its use with community persons (Study 1; N = 166) as well as hospital patients and family membe…
Where there's life, There's hope, and where there is hope, there is
Use of the threat index with family members Waiting during surgery
We describe the use of the 40-item Threat Index (TI) with family members (N = 206) of surgical patients who also completed Templer's (1970) Death Anxiety Scale, the Death-of-Self and Dying-of-Self subscales of the Collett-Lester (1969) Fear of Death Scale, and the Death Acceptance subscale of Reker and Peacock's (1992) Life Attitude Profile-Revised. Word sets from the 40-item TI that are part of the 25- and 7-item versions of the TI produced stro…
The General Hospital Chaplain's Ministry: Analysis of Productivity, Quality and Cost
Chaplains usually assume that cost containment concerns are a negative influence on their ministry. We argue that they can be a positive opportunity to demonstrate cost efficiency. We describe here a pilot project that gathered data for two months from three university general hospital pastoral care departments concerning the number of pastoral contacts, the time used in these contacts, the quality of pastoral services delivered, and the costs in…
Barriers that predict resistance to completing a living will
We sought to identify perceived barriers and benefits to completing living wills for 176 medical outpatients or their family members, using a questionnaire based on the Health Belief Model. The regression equation of the patient data identified two items that functioned as significant barriers: "I am not very interested in a living will because I believe that I will live a lot longer," and "Completing a living will now is difficult because I woul…
Exploring Intercessory Prayer
Response to the Responses
Selected Books of Interest
The Parish Clergy's Ministry of Prayer with Hospitalized Parishioners
Previous reports suggest that clergy frequently pray with parishioners during hospital visits. In this study, 286 parish clergy and lay volunteers characterize these prayers as meditative, liturgical, or extemporaneous. Content for the latter two categories is further described as intercession, confession, or thanksgiving/praise. Respondents reported 44,403 hospital pastoral visits during the previous year and most, regardless of faith group, est…
Should Physicians Discuss Spiritual Concerns with Patients?
The Vigil: Religion and the Search for Control in the Hospital Waiting Room
This study examined how religion is involved in achieving a sense of personal control in a situation that evokes feelings of distress and vulnerability. One hundred and fifty family members, waiting in the hospital while their relative underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, completed a survey about their methods of coping, event-specific outcomes, and adjustment (depression and anxiety). As predicted, religious methods of coping designed to ac…
Should Physicians Prescribe Religious Activities?
There is increasing interest among the general public and the medical community in the role of religion in medicine. Polls indicate that the U.S. population is highly religious; most people believe in heaven and hell,1 the healing power of prayer,2 and the capacity of faith to aid in the recovery from disease.3 The popular press has published many articles in which religious faith and practice have been said to promote comfort, healing, or both. …
How Has Health Care Reform Affected Professional Chaplaincy Programs and How Are Department Directors Responding
No published studies were identified that describe the impact of health care reform on professional chaplaincy departments in hospital settings. Results from a random sample (N = 370) of department directors indicate that 45 percent report no budgetary consequences, 27 percent have experienced budgetary cutbacks, and 17 percent describe departmental growth. The cutbacks most often involve the loss of staff chaplain positions. Directors also descr…
How Many Chaplains Per 100 Inpatients? Benchmarks of Health Care Chaplaincy Departments
Reports the results of a questionnaire survey of a sample of chaplaincy departments directors (N=370) designed to answer the following questions: How many chaplains do various types of hospitals employ per 100 inpatients? What is the relationship between the number of employed chaplains and departmental Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) programs? How much effort do departments give to outpatient ministry? What percentage of ministry do volunteer …
Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
(2002). Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform? Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. xxi-xxii
Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
(2002). Chaplain Yes: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform? Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol. 12, No. 1-2, pp. xxi-xxii
Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplanincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
(2002). Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplanincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform? Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. xix-xx
Chaplain No: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific in Response to Health Care Reform
Praying About Difficult Experiences as Self-Disclosure to God
The psychological literature reports that 4 linguistic characteristics of disclosure narratives are associated with personal benefits. These characteristics are causal statements, expressions of insight, and words denoting negative and positive emotions. This study explored whether prayers for help with difficult personal experiences contained similar linguistic characteristics. Participants (N = 66) wrote either disclosures, letters to God, or e…
The Religious Life During Suicide Bereavement: A Description
This exploratory study gathered narratives from 10 female suicide survivors, exploring 3 dimensions of their religious life during bereavement: (a) the function of the survivor's personal religion; (b) the function of religious support from family and friends; and (c) the function of established religious communities. Ten themes emerged from the narratives: afterlife destiny of the loved one, a more spiritual perspective, the impact on religious …
The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving: Foundations for Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy
Structure your ministry to start with patients’needs, hopes, and resources and to be clear what difference your ministry can make!Hospital chaplains value who they are and what they do as contributions to patients’and families’healing and well-being. And they are continually stretching to enhance their ministries. Hospital administrators and other professionals on the care teams, however, often need help to grasp those same values in outcome orie…
Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (17 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Pastoral care (8 works) · Health care (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works)