| Title: | Thematic charting of military chaplaincy scholarship (2014–2024) : a Scopus and Web of Science scoping review |
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| Authors: | ID Hazemali, David (Author)
ID Maver, Aleš (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_Hazemali_David_2025.pdf (2,61 MB)
MD5: C11F0E8BE83F1ED4C4F883C6B9C67EB4
 https://doi.org/10.34291/BV2025/02/Hazemali
https://journals.uni-lj.si/BV/issue/view/1524
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.02 - Review Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | This scoping review maps peer-reviewed scholarship on military chapla-incy (2014–2024) indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. We asked how cha-plains’ roles, delivery models, collaborations, and methodological approaches relate to moral injury, suicide care, religious and ethnic plurality, and readiness.Searches (14 March 2025) yielded 217 records and after analysis 58 met our criteria analysis. We classified studies as outcomes (n=3), implementation/pro-vider-facing (n=37), and conceptual/historical/policy/evidence syntheses(n=18). The literature depicts a maturing discipline, moving from traditional ad hoc pastoral responses towards structured, reproducible approaches. Military Chaplain collaboration with behavioural health and command is the most de-veloped thematic area, supported by learning collaboratives and crisis proto-cols. Moral-injury interventions cluster into chaplain-only, co-facilitated, and protocolised narrative-ritual models, with promising but limited outcome si-gnals. Evidence-informed practice is growing via screening, shared language, and brief interventions; comparative work highlights diverse measurementapproaches, ethics, and governance across countries. Samples are heavily we-ighted toward Christian chaplains, male service members, and the U.S. VA/DoD contexts. Gaps include rigorous trials, non-U.S. and minority-faith contexts, mechanism testing, and economic evaluation |
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| Keywords: | military chaplaincy, military chaplains, moral injury, suicide prevention, integrated care, spiritual readiness, implementation science, confidentiality, international comparison, scoping review, armed forces |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 11.12.2025 |
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| Publisher: | Založba Univerze v Ljubljani |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 399-426 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 85, [št.] 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-96365  |
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| UDC: | 355:2-722.5:004.65 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0006-5722 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 262116099 |
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| DOI: | 10.34291/BV2025/02/Hazemali |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 25.02.2026 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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