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The Spiritual AIM Model — developed from real-life examples of patient spiritual assessment, chaplain intervention, and patient-described outcomes — is a unique, dynamic, evidence-based assessment model that helps providers engage in the relationships required to best meet the needs of those they’re serving. Click Here To Learn More.
- The Model
The Spiritual Assessment and Intervention Model (Spiritual...
- About
The pilot is detailed in this manuscript, and it is...
- Toolkit
Integrating Spiritual AIM Into Your Practice. In addition to...
- Research
Below is some of the research on the Spiritual AIM model, as...
- News & Events
In November 2021, Spiritual AIM co-developer Allison...
- Chapter 1: Introduction
Spiritual AIM: Is based on an inclusive definition of...
- Chapter 2: Overview
As you have read in “ Spiritual AIM and the work of the...
- The Model
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Spiritual AIM: Is based on an inclusive definition of spirituality. Does not conceive of “meaning” as the overarching core need of each individual (expressed through different domains), but rather as one of three potential core spiritual needs that can be rapidly identified.
- Developing Spiritual Aim: Roots in Chaplaincy Mentorship
- Making Assessments
- Persona and Spiritual Aim
- Making Interventions
As you have read in “Spiritual AIM and the work of the chaplain: A model for assessing spiritual needs and outcomes in relationship,” Spiritual AIM is a model developed over two decades by Rev. Dr. Michele Shields, BCC, ACPE, inspired at the outset by a mentoring group with Rev. Dr. Dennis Kenny. It was nurtured over the years based on Michele’s en...
The chaplain assesses the primary spiritual need, the level of acuity of the need, and how far along the patient is on the path toward healing and integration, defined by Spiritual AIM. What helps us make an assessment? What information do you use? 1. Comments 2. Behavior 3. Attribution of blame 4. Questions 5. Concerns 6. Chaplain’s own internal r...
Sometimes, a patient will describe themselves in ways that conflict with how they behave and how others see them. For example, a patient may tell you they are easy to get along with, but you come to learn they have alienated the entire nursing staff. Or they say that they make decisions easily because they try not to live in their head, but you fin...
The chaplain leads the patient through a process of healing using specific interventions that correspond to the primary spiritual need. The chaplain does this through embodiment. The chaplain makes a choice to step into a role and stance and personify certain characteristics: guide, valuer, or truth-teller.
Spiritual AIM provides a conceptual framework for the chaplain to diagnose an individual’s primary unmet spiritual need, devise and implement a plan for addressing this need through embodiment/relationship, and articulate and evaluate the desired and actual outcome of the intervention.
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Feb 19, 2019 · The Spiritual-AIM is an intervention based on the concept that healing happens in relationships and that all humans have three core spiritual needs: - a need for meaning and direction; - a need to feel self-worth and belonging to community; and. - a need to love and be loved, including seeking reconciliation for broken relationships when needed.
Feb 22, 2022 · Spiritual AIM is a unique, dynamic, evidence-based assessment model that helps providers—chaplains, social workers, and others—engage in the relationships required to best meet the needs of those they’re serving.
Results: Spiritual AIM provides a conceptual framework for the chaplain to diagnose an individual's primary unmet spiritual need, devise and implement a plan for addressing this need through embodiment/relationship, and articulate and evaluate the desired and actual outcome of the intervention.
