Implementing Spiritual Care in the Pediatric Complex Care Clinic

J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2023 Mar;77(1):27-33. doi: 10.1177/15423050221124038. Epub 2022 Sep 4.

Abstract

A project integrated a Clinical Pastoral Education Fellow into a clinic designed to treat children with medical complexity (CMC). The integration of a chaplain into the care team fulfilled the goal of increasing accessibility to spiritual care through a quality improvement project and seemed to positively affect patients and the interdisciplinary team itself. These efforts demonstrate the need for research to better understand the relationship between spiritual screenings, interventions, and outcomes for CMC patients.

Keywords: Spiritual screening; chaplain; children with medical complexity; pediatric spiritual care; spiritual interventions.

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Clergy
  • Humans
  • Pastoral Care* / education
  • Quality Improvement
  • Spiritual Therapies*
  • Spirituality