Duane R. Bidwell is an award-winning teacher, mentor, trainer, writer, and facilitator.
His new book, After the Worst Day Ever: What Sick Kids Know About Sustaining Hope in Chronic Illness, will be published in March 2024 by Beacon Press.
As a scholar, Duane specializes in health professions education, comparative approaches to mental health and spirituality, educational leadership, and Buddhist-Christian studies.
His expertise includes:
His new book, After the Worst Day Ever: What Sick Kids Know About Sustaining Hope in Chronic Illness, will be published in March 2024 by Beacon Press.
As a scholar, Duane specializes in health professions education, comparative approaches to mental health and spirituality, educational leadership, and Buddhist-Christian studies.
His expertise includes:
- health professions education,
- leadership,
- complex religious bonds,
- suicide intervention,
- spiritual direction,
- brief coaching,
- solution-focused therapy, and
- narrative therapy
As an Educational and Research Associate for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Duane serves on the faculty of the Center for Health Professions Education, Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
He directs a collaborative project between the university and the US Veterans Health Administration to improve educational leadership at medical centers across the country.
Duane has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio, CNN, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Interfaith Radio, and many podcasts.
Duane has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio, CNN, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Interfaith Radio, and many podcasts.
His last book, When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People (Beacon Press, 2018), is a Christian Century bestseller and a Library Journal “Best Book of 2018.”
Books and Articles
Buddhist-Christian Resources for Spiritual Care: A Scoping Review and Projection
Duane R. Bidwell
Buddhist-Christian Studies, vol. 43, 2023, pp. 253-260
Leading and Facilitating Spiritual Reflection
D. Bidwell, Co-authored with Victor Gabriel Ph.D.
Wendy Cadge, Shelly Rambo, (Eds.), Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-first Century, University of North Carolina Press , 2022, pp. 90-109
The Human Is Not Bound: Buddhist-Christian Thought, Spiritual Care, and Complex Religious Bonds
D. Bidwell
Buddhist-Christian Studies, 2021
Social Construction, Practical Theology, and the Practices of Religious Communities
D. Bidwell
Emerson Rasera Sheila McNamee Mary Gergen, Handbook of Social Constructionist Practices, Sage, 2020
Spiritual Care, Migration, and Multiplicity: Care in the Context of Complex Religious Bonds
D. Bidwell
Pastoral and Spiritual Care Across Religions and Cultures II, 2019
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