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Spiritual Assessment:
It's A SNAP*

* Spiritual Narrative Assessment Process

February 4-22, 2008
Presenter: Larry Austin, D.Min. , BCC
12.0 contact hours

Performing spiritual assessments is part of the daily routine for chaplains and the search for more efficient approaches that can be utilized by multiple disciplines is ongoing. Dr. Larry Austin has developed an approach to spiritual assessment that is a SNAP. The Spiritual Narrative Assessment Process is an advanced approach to spiritual assessment in medical treatment. The method approach of the SNAP system will require students to be aware of the basic formats of the spiritual screen, spiritual history, and spiritual assessment. With the understanding of basic concepts SNAP will allow the user to do basic screens and as the user's proficiency with the system becomes more comfortable, progress to more advanced and detailed assessments, including outcomes will be possible.

Through three weeks of interdisciplinary, reflective peer group dialogue, participants in this seminar will review presentations, case studies, and reflective dialogue to develop skills in using this narrative approach to spiritual assessment. Through this process, participants benefit by learning from each other as well as from the presentations and self-reflection.

Dr. Larry Austin

Presenter:

Dr. Larry Austin is the Director of Pastoral Services at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, North Carolina, and ACPE Supervisor of University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina. Dr. Austin studied with Wayne Oates as part of his academic and clinical pastoral education at Southern Seminary.

He has authored a paper, "Pastoral Care by Crystal Ball," published in the Oates Journal and used as part of a previous online conference on the topic of "When Religion Gets Sick."

Learning Objectives:

Following this seminar, participants should be able to:

  1. Identify and name 10 basic spiritual categories.

  2. Identify major spiritual issues in patient contacts.

  3. Choose from a variety of inventions to help in the narrative and spiritual process.

  4. Utilize four basic pastoral care methods and project the outcomes for pastoral care interventions.

  5. Become more proficient with case analysis with spirituality, narrative and pastoral methodologies.

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