The Impact of Chaplaincy Services in Selected Hospitals in the Eastern United States
Surveys a stratified sample of patients in six different hospitals and compares their perceptions of hospital chaplaincy and other pastoral care efforts with related hospital services. Reports the presence of a strong impact of pastoral care services and discusses these findings from the perspective...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1985
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| In: |
The Journal of pastoral care
Year: 1985, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 262-269 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Surveys a stratified sample of patients in six different hospitals and compares their perceptions of hospital chaplaincy and other pastoral care efforts with related hospital services. Reports the presence of a strong impact of pastoral care services and discusses these findings from the perspective of a theory of expressive and instrumental social orientations as explicated by the sociologist Talcott Parsons. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Journal of pastoral care
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/002234098503900309 |