STANDARD 13:
RESEARCH
The pastoral care practitioner practices evidence-based care including ongoing evaluation of new practices and, when appropriate, contributes to or conducts research. |
Apply to those with significant leadership and management responsibilities.
INTERPRETATION
Increasingly, pastoral care practitioners may be asked to demonstrate that they, too, practice out of an evidence base, and explicitly make a contribution to organization. In some cases, where the pastoral care practitioner has sufficient skills and support, this will mean participating in or creating research efforts to improve pastoral care.
MEASUREMENT CRITERIA
- Demonstrates familiarity with published research findings that inform practice through reading professional journals and other materials.
- Critically evaluates and integrates new research for its potential to improve practice.
EXAMPLES
- Reads and discusses research articles in professional journals and considers implications for practice.
- Uses published research to educate administrators or other organization professionals on the role, value, or impact of pastoral care.
- Serves on an editorial board as peer-reviewer for a professional journal.
- Collaborates with researchers in other disciplines (or with other pastoral care practitioners) in research projects designed for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
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