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The effects of expressive art and spiritual care are known to be especially beneficial when placed in conversation with each other or implemented in interdisciplinary settings. Yet despite the therapeutic effects of integrative care being well established, the average pediatric chaplain often remains unempowered to implement these practices or to communicate their value from both a social-emotional or moral-spiritual standpoint. The hope of this workshop is to empower the chaplain to engage with expressive modalities of art as part of a comprehensive spiritual care plan, recognizing both art and play as native languages of childhood. Participants will practice creating a self-representative paper doll as an accessible and easily implementable technique to integrative conversations about spirituality, bodily experience, and human dignity.

Goals/Objectives: Verbalize an understanding of the intersection of spiritual care, ethics, and expressive art techniques. Understand possible clinical applications of personally representative expressive art in the pediatric setting. Create a personal representation of themselves that they can use to explore techniques. Express an expanded vocabulary around the moral and ethical concepts of human dignity as applicable to the spiritual care practitioner -CEs offered for this presentation

Publication Date

5-2026

When and Where Presented

Presented at the Pediatric Chaplains Network Annual Conference; Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 4-7, 2026

Art, Ethics, and Identity - The Paper Doll as Spiritual Care

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