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  • 2019 Lancaster Theological Seminary DMin Symposium

    Monday, April 1, 2019

    Symposium presentations will be offered concurrently across four sessions. Attendees will have the option of attending one of three presentations during each session.

    Schedule of Events
    Time Event Location
     8:30 a.m.  Gathering and Snacks  Hafer Center
     9:00 a.m.  Morning Prayer  Hafer Center
     9:30-10:30 a.m.   Presentations - Session 1  
       Kathy Harvey Nelson  L206
       "Connectional Spirituality: Small Church Pastors and the Future of the Church"
       Garrett Bugg  L204
       "What Cannot Be Forgotten: Moral Injury and Pastoral Practice"
       Tracy Brown  Library Learning Commons
       "How Christian Practices are Used by Laypeople to Attract Others to the Christian Faith"
     10:45-11:45 a.m.  Presentations - Session 2
       Jonette Gay  L206
       "Faith Decisions: Order or Novelty"
       Holly Wildhack  L204
       "Dignity Therapy as a Pastoral Care Intervention: Exploring the Family Jewels"
       Dan Lundquist  Library Learning Commons
       "Bi-vocational Ministry: What Works from the Perspective of Bi-vocational Ministers and Their Congregants"
     12:00-12:45 p.m.  Lunch  Hafer Center
     1:00-2:00 p.m.  Presentations - Session 3
       Gene Gordon  L206
       "Addressing the Wounds of Racism Through the Lens of Moral Injury:
    A Qualitative Study Drawing on Black Liberation and Womanist Theology"
       David Popham  L204
       "Clergy Incarnate: Embodied Metaphors as Gateways to the Ideological Commitments of Ministers"
       Nick Bufano  Library Learning Commons
       "'Come Away By Yourself and Rest Awhile': Retreat as a Model of Self-Care for United Methodist Clergy"
     2:15-3:15 p.m.  Presentations - Session 4  
       Kate Morse  L206
       "From Anguish to Enrichment Redefining Three 18th and 19th Century Utopian Communities’ Response to Suffering: An Application for the 21st Century"
       Linwood Smith  L204
       "The Role of Clergy in Promoting Health and Wellness in the West-Mainline and Philadelphia Districts of the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church"
       Gary Filson  Library Learning Commons
       "Gone Fishing: Marketing Faith to Millennials in the Postmodern Era"

    Sessions will also be available to attendees via Zoom.

    Presentation Details for Current DMin Students and Guests

    • Presenters are listed alphabetically below
    • Expand the presenter's section to find:
      • Link to join Zoom session and recording (when available)
      • Supporting documents provided by presenter (if applicable)
      • Online evaluation form (made available at the time of presentation)

    ◄Linwood Smith

    Holly Wildhack

    • Holly Wildhack

      Dignity Therapy as a Pastoral Care Intervention: Exploring the Family Jewels

      Time: 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. on April 1, 2019 

      Location: Lark Building, Room 204

      Abstract

      “Dignity therapy (DT) is a brief, individualized intervention to increase the sense of purpose, meaning and worth and reduce spiritual and psychological suffering.”1 It comprises a recorded interview which is transcribed, edited and returned to the individual who can choose to give it people of their choosing. While dignity therapy has been well studied,2,3 much of the research has been done by the developer and prolific researcher, Chochinov, and his teams.4 DT is just recently coming to the attention and interest to the pastoral care/chaplaincy communities.5 The aim of this study is to examine how four community-dwelling older adults who have expressed feelings of hopelessness, loss of meaning, despair experience dignity therapy when administered as a pastoral care intervention. 

      1. Sue Hall et al., “Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability and Potential Effectiveness of Dignity Therapy for People with Advanced Cancer Referred to a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Team: Study Protocol,” BMC Palliative Care 8, no. 1 (December 2009), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-8-5. 

      2. George Fitchett et al., “Care of the Human Spirit and the Role of Dignity Therapy: A Systematic Review of Dignity Therapy Research,” BMC Palliative Care 14, no. 8 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-015-0007-1. 

      3. Marina Martínez et al., “‘Dignity Therapy’, a Promising Intervention in Palliative Care: A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review,” Palliative Medicine 31, no. 6 (June 2017): 492–509, https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216316665562. 

      4. Harvey Max Chochinov, Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). 

      5. George Fitchett et al., “Monthly Article April 2015,” ACPE Research, April 2015, http://www.acperesearch.net/apr15.html

      •  Recording - Presentation begins at 0:12 mark

         
         
    ◄Linwood Smith