Michael Scherer‐rath
Biographic Data
| ID | 4689674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Scherer‐rath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Scherer‐rath |
| SIGNATURE | RATH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7652-8213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mutual Learning and Boundary Work in Palliative Oncology Care
Cross-disciplinary, arts-based interventions are gaining recognition for improving palliative care by addressing the complex experiences of patients with life-limiting illnesses. These interventions integrate healthcare, arts, and spiritual care. Despite their acknowledged value, challenges remain regarding the positioning, legitimacy, and autonomy of artistic and spiritual perspectives within academic and clinical settings. This study investigat…
Covid-19, Meaning and Mental Health in Higher Education
The impact of the COVID -19 pandemic is studied among Dutch and German university students and staff, at the inception of the pandemic in April 2020. The effects of conditions of study and work are studied on mental health, while taking into account the adaptive function of meaning and controlling for relevant demographic characteristics. Results indicate that negative experiences of study and work affect various dimensions of mental health and d…
Response shift after coronary revascularization
Results indicate response shift in HRQoL following coronary revascularization. While we did not find an impact of response shift on the estimates of change, the SEM approach provides a more comprehensive insight into the different types of change in HRQoL following coronary revascularization
Modes of Narrative Integration of Experiences of Contingency in Highly Sensitive Children
Narrative integration of experiences of contingency describes the ways (modes) in which people assimilate the uncontrollability—or contingency—of life, while accepting, acknowledging and tolerating the existential fears accompanying these experiences, thus keeping contingency open. Contingency is defined as events being ‘possible (or not impossible) and also not necessary at the same time’. Experiences of contingency, caused by the interplay betw…
Narrative meaning making and integration
Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people’s personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life …
Experience of Contingency and Congruent Interpretation of Life Events in Clinical Psychiatric Settings
This is a qualitative pilot study of congruence in narrative reconstruction of interpretations of life events by patients in a clinical psychiatric setting. It is based on the assumption that a coherent interpretive structure means that the interpretation of contingent life events by a person must be congruent with the conflict between these everyday events and the person’s embedded ultimate life goal. The pilot study confirms the assumption, pro…
Forest Managers' Spiritual Concerns
A connection with nature is the core motivational factor that inspires 12 forest managers to carry out their daily work. Th is has been ascertained through qualitative research into the structure of the emotional perceptions of Dutch forest managers. Three domains or clusters of concepts have been identified: 1) the intra-personal process, 2) the relation between the manager and the management object, and 3) the relation between the manager and t…
"Wohin soll ich mich wenden in meiner Not?" Die Rolle der Religiosität bei der Bewältigung kritischer Leibensereignisse sowie Impulse für eine pastorale Krisenintervention — eine pastoraltheologische …
Dem Glauben Gestalt geben. Festschrift für Walter Fürst
Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Th eology 20 (2007) 129-157 131 Feeser-Lichterfeld, U. and Feiter, R. (eds.) (2006). Dem Glauben Gestalt geben. Festschrift für Walter Fürst [Th eologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft, Band 9]. Münster: LIT Verlag. ISBN 3-8258-8783-9 From 1985 to 2006, Walter Fürst was professor for pastoral theology at the Faculty for Catholic Th eology at the University of Bonn. Friends, students and colleagues have assembled a …
Images of Death as Perspectives in a Life Crisis
Images of death are reflections of one's own attitude to life, and in existential crises such as a suicide crisis, their meaning should therefore not be underestimated. This article describes the results of a research that has attempted to discuss attitudes, which people adopt towards death in times of a suicide crisis. The analysis of the data shows that death is looked upon from an immanentistic and religious viewpoint. Within this context the …
Effects of the Religio Us Socialization Leading To or Slowing Down Suicide
The individual biography is relevant to the relation between suicide and religion. The religious socialization can have an indirect influence on the origin of a suicide crisis and on the way both young people and adults deal with solving this problem. This is the outcome of an empirical-theological research into seven case-studies. In connection with physical, psychological and social factors, the effects of the religious socialization cause, at …
Narrative meaning making and integration
Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people’s personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life …
Forest Managers' Spiritual Concerns
A connection with nature is the core motivational factor that inspires 12 forest managers to carry out their daily work. Th is has been ascertained through qualitative research into the structure of the emotional perceptions of Dutch forest managers. Three domains or clusters of concepts have been identified: 1) the intra-personal process, 2) the relation between the manager and the management object, and 3) the relation between the manager and t…
Effects of the Religio Us Socialization Leading To or Slowing Down Suicide
The individual biography is relevant to the relation between suicide and religion. The religious socialization can have an indirect influence on the origin of a suicide crisis and on the way both young people and adults deal with solving this problem. This is the outcome of an empirical-theological research into seven case-studies. In connection with physical, psychological and social factors, the effects of the religious socialization cause, at …
Images of Death as Perspectives in a Life Crisis
Images of death are reflections of one's own attitude to life, and in existential crises such as a suicide crisis, their meaning should therefore not be underestimated. This article describes the results of a research that has attempted to discuss attitudes, which people adopt towards death in times of a suicide crisis. The analysis of the data shows that death is looked upon from an immanentistic and religious viewpoint. Within this context the …
"Wohin soll ich mich wenden in meiner Not?" Die Rolle der Religiosität bei der Bewältigung kritischer Leibensereignisse sowie Impulse für eine pastorale Krisenintervention — eine pastoraltheologische …
Dem Glauben Gestalt geben. Festschrift für Walter Fürst
Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Th eology 20 (2007) 129-157 131 Feeser-Lichterfeld, U. and Feiter, R. (eds.) (2006). Dem Glauben Gestalt geben. Festschrift für Walter Fürst [Th eologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft, Band 9]. Münster: LIT Verlag. ISBN 3-8258-8783-9 From 1985 to 2006, Walter Fürst was professor for pastoral theology at the Faculty for Catholic Th eology at the University of Bonn. Friends, students and colleagues have assembled a …
Forest Managers' Spiritual Concerns
A connection with nature is the core motivational factor that inspires 12 forest managers to carry out their daily work. Th is has been ascertained through qualitative research into the structure of the emotional perceptions of Dutch forest managers. Three domains or clusters of concepts have been identified: 1) the intra-personal process, 2) the relation between the manager and the management object, and 3) the relation between the manager and t…
Experience of Contingency and Congruent Interpretation of Life Events in Clinical Psychiatric Settings
This is a qualitative pilot study of congruence in narrative reconstruction of interpretations of life events by patients in a clinical psychiatric setting. It is based on the assumption that a coherent interpretive structure means that the interpretation of contingent life events by a person must be congruent with the conflict between these everyday events and the person’s embedded ultimate life goal. The pilot study confirms the assumption, pro…
Narrative meaning making and integration
Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people’s personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life …
Modes of Narrative Integration of Experiences of Contingency in Highly Sensitive Children
Narrative integration of experiences of contingency describes the ways (modes) in which people assimilate the uncontrollability—or contingency—of life, while accepting, acknowledging and tolerating the existential fears accompanying these experiences, thus keeping contingency open. Contingency is defined as events being ‘possible (or not impossible) and also not necessary at the same time’. Experiences of contingency, caused by the interplay betw…
Response shift after coronary revascularization
Results indicate response shift in HRQoL following coronary revascularization. While we did not find an impact of response shift on the estimates of change, the SEM approach provides a more comprehensive insight into the different types of change in HRQoL following coronary revascularization
Covid-19, Meaning and Mental Health in Higher Education
The impact of the COVID -19 pandemic is studied among Dutch and German university students and staff, at the inception of the pandemic in April 2020. The effects of conditions of study and work are studied on mental health, while taking into account the adaptive function of meaning and controlling for relevant demographic characteristics. Results indicate that negative experiences of study and work affect various dimensions of mental health and d…
Mutual Learning and Boundary Work in Palliative Oncology Care
Cross-disciplinary, arts-based interventions are gaining recognition for improving palliative care by addressing the complex experiences of patients with life-limiting illnesses. These interventions integrate healthcare, arts, and spiritual care. Despite their acknowledged value, challenges remain regarding the positioning, legitimacy, and autonomy of artistic and spiritual perspectives within academic and clinical settings. This study investigat…
Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Contingency (3 works) · Existentialism (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)