The Pediatric Chaplain’s Network—Research Committee (PCN-RC) aims to serve the PCN in three key ways:
Encourage, equip, and elevate the work of pediatric chaplains to be the respected thought leaders exploring and defining evidence-based pediatric spiritual care practice with curiosity and wonder.
PCN-RC Journal Club
The Journal Club is offered as a free activity from PCN with the expressed purpose of encouraging, empowering, and engaging pediatric chaplains in the world of research literacy and research-informed practice.
A link is made available before each journal club session through a post on the Listserv. If you would like to be added to an email list that receives the Outlook calendar invite with Zoom link directly, please click here and submit your email to the Google form
In 2025 the research committee convened journal club five times and discussed the following articles:
February
Weiner, C., Pergert, P., Castor, A., Molewijk, B., & Bartholdson, C. (2024). Children’s voices on their values and moral dilemmas when being cared and treated for cancer- a qualitative interview study. BMC medical ethics, 25(1), 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-024-01075-3
April
Weber, A., & Harrison, T. M. (2019). Reducing toxic stress in the neonatal intensive care unit to improve infant outcomes. Nursing outlook, 67(2), 169–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2018.11.002
June
Bogetz, J., Oslin, E., Meissner, E., Trowbridge, A., Anderson, J., Morris, L., Barton, K. S., Yi-Frazier, J., Watson, R. S., & Rosenberg, A. R. (2025). A Photo-Narrative Intervention for Children With Severe Neurological Impairment in the PICU. Journal of pain and symptom management, 69(4), 319–330.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.11.021
August
Lamiani, G., Montecalvo, M., Luridiana Battistini, C., Borghi, L., Meyer, E. C., & Vegni, E. (2025). Coping with moral distress: A qualitative study exploring psychological strategies used by healthcare professionals. BMC Psychology, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02926-3
VanderWeele, T. J., Wortham, J. S., Carey, L. B., Case, B. W., Cowden, R. G., Duffee, C., Jackson-Meyer, K., Lu, F., Mattson, S. A., Padgett, R. N., Peteet, J. R., Rutledge, J., Symons, X., & Koenig, H. G. (2025). Moral trauma, moral distress, moral injury, and moral injury disorder: Definitions and assessments. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1422441. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1422441
October
Mohamed Hussin, N., Aho, A. Navigating Faith: Religion and Spirituality Among Finnish Parents After the Traumatic Loss of a Child. Pastoral Psychol 74, 635–652 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-025-01237-z
In 2024 the research committee convened journal club five times and discussed the following articles:
In 2023 the research committee convened journal club five times and discussed the following articles:
Case, H., Benning, T., Lovig, Z., Girard, J., Thorvilson, M., Fischer, P. R., & Homme, J. (2022). Inpatient pediatric chaplain service utilization among children with chronic, non-cancer diseases. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 28(4), 578–590.
Coombes, L., Braybrook, D., Roach, A., Scott, H., Harðardóttir, D., Bristowe, K., Ellis-Smith, C., Bluebond-Langner, M., Fraser, L. K., Downing, J., Farsides, B., Murtagh, F. E. M., Harding, R., & C-POS (2022). Achieving child-centred care for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions-a qualitative interview study. European journal of pediatrics, 181(10), 3739–3752.
Hester, D. M., & Salter, E. K. (2022). Reasonableness as a Relational Principle: An Integrated Framework for Pediatric Decision-Making. The Journal of Pediatrics, 251, 30–35.
Leavitt-Alcántara, S., Betz, J., Medeiros Almeida, D., Ferrara, B., Xu, Y., Diop, E., Hamilton, O., Young, C., & Ragsdale, J. R. (2023). Religiosity and religious and spiritual struggle and their association to depression and anxiety among adolescents admitted to inpatient psychiatric units. Journal of health care chaplaincy, 29(1), 1–13
Scott, H. M., Coombes, L., Braybrook, D., Roach, A., Harðardóttir, D., Bristowe, K., Ellis-Smith, C., Downing, J., Murtagh, F. E., Farsides, B., Fraser, L. K., Bluebond-Langner, M., & Harding, R. (2023). Spiritual, religious, and existential concerns of children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions: A qualitative interview study. Palliative Medicine, 37(6), 856–865. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163231165101
In 2022 the research committee convened journal club five times and discussed the following articles:
Annett, R. D., Brody, J. L., Scherer, D. G., Turner, C. W., Dalen, J., & Raissy, H. (2017). A Randomized Study of a Method for Optimizing Adolescent Assent to Biomedical Research. AJOB Empirical Bioethics, 8(3), 189–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/23294515.2016.1251507
Grossoehme, D. H., Robinson, N., Friebert, S., Brown, M., & Aultman, J. M. (2022). Examining Illness through Pediatric Poetry and Prose: A Mixed Methods Study. Narrative inquiry in bioethics, 12(1), 53–76. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1353/nib.2022.0017
Minor, C. & Campbell, R. (2016). The Parable of the Sower: a case study examining the use of the Godly Play® method as a spiritual intervention on a psychiatric unit of a major children’s hospital. International Journal of Children’s Spirituality. 21. 1-14. 10.1080/1364436X.2016.1150813.
Salter, E. K. (2013). Should We Tell Annie?: Preparing for Death at the Intersection of Parental Authority and Adolescent Autonomy. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 3(1), 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1353/nib.2013.0006
Superdock, A. K., Barfield, R. C., Brandon, D. H., & Docherty, S. L. (2018). Exploring the vagueness of Religion & Spirituality in complex pediatric decision-making: A qualitative study. BMC Palliative Care, 17(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0360-y
In 2021 the group met five times and discussed the following articles:
Bibler, T. M., Stahl, D., Fantus, S., Lion, A., & Brothers, K. B. (2020). A Process-Based Approach to Responding to Parents or Guardians Who Hope for a Miracle. Pediatrics, 145(3), e20192319. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2019-2319
Cacciatore, J., Thieleman, K., Lieber, A. S., Blood, C., & Goldman, R. (2019). The Long Road to Farewell: The Needs of Families With Dying Children. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 78(4), 404–420.https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222817697418
Mack, J. W., Uno, H., Twist, C. J., Bagatell, R., Rosenberg, A. R., Marachelian, A., Granger, M. M., Glade Bender, J., Baker, J. N., Park, J. R., Cohn, S. L., Fernandez, J. H., Diller, L. R., & Shusterman, S. (2020). Racial and Ethnic Differences in Communication and Care for Children With Advanced Cancer. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 60(4), 782–789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.04.020
Ragsdale, J. R., & Desjardins, C. M. (2020). Proposing religiously informed, relationally skillful chaplaincy theory. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2020.1861533
Wiener, L., Rosenberg, A. R., Pennarola, B., Fry, A., & Weaver, M. (2021). Navigating the terrain of moral distress: Experiences of pediatric end-of-life care and bereavement during COVID-19. Palliative & Supportive Care, 19(2), 129–134. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951521000225convened
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