Date

12-19-2024

Department

Rawlings School of Divinity

Degree

Doctor of Ministry (DMin)

Chair

Ron Hughes

Keywords

Bereavement, Chaplain, Grief, Hospice, Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling

Disciplines

Christianity | Counseling

Abstract

The topic of this action research is Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling for grief and bereavement. The need for the research completed is for hospice chaplains to have a workable tool to use for grief and bereavement. The problem is that many hospice chaplains do not have a framework to use for counseling in grief. The action researcher worked on the thesis of if chaplains use Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling for grief they will be more effective. The research was completed using Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling to counsel six participants in grief. Each participant completed a pre-counseling questionnaire and a post-counseling questionnaire to assess the results. The research was completed by a chaplain who worked for Traditions Health Hospice out of the Youngstown, Ohio office. The participants volunteered to be counseled for grief using Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling. All participants or counselees were women, but each one was related to the deceased in a unique way. One had her sister pass, one had her mother pass, two had their husbands pass, one had a father pass, and one had a brother pass. All the relationship loss was close to the patients. Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling is a type of counseling where the counselee and counselor work on goals together, focus on a solution to a problem, instead of dwelling on the past problem, and uses a miracle question to help frame the goals. It was researched and found effective to use for grief counseling for chaplains to use by the research completed in this project.

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