Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Dr Bruce Rumbold

Contact Details

Email: b.rumbold@latrobe.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9285 5259
Internat: +61 3 9285 5259
Fax: (03) 9285 5111
Internat: +61 3 9285 5111
Office: 3.05 (City campus), HS1-117B (Bundoora campus)

Qualifications

MSc, PhD, BD(Hons), PhD, MA

Interests

Bruce Rumbold holds postgraduate qualifications in physics, pastoral care and health social science, and has published in all three fields. His longstanding interest in palliative care began with doctoral work in England in the mid-seventies, and has continued throughout palliative care's period of development in Australia. The health promoting model employed by the La Trobe University Palliative Care Unit, with its emphasis on social and spiritual care, is particularly congenial to his interests in community developments, pastoral care, and spirituality.

Research interests:

1. Community capacity building in palliative care.

2. Spiritual care and Pastoral care practice in palliative care services:

• training, position descriptions, actual practice of spiritual care/pastoral care workers.
• pastoral care workers' perception of their role with clients and in the interdisciplinary team.
• clients' and co-workers' perceptions of the pastoral care role and pastoral care workers' implementation of that role.

3. Illness narratives in chronic and life-threatening illness.

Publications

Rumbold, B. (2007). A review of spiritual assessment in health care practice. Medical Journal of Australia MJA, 186(10) (Supplement on Spirituality and Health: Proceedings of the 1st Australian Conference on Spirituality and Health, Adelaide, 28-29 July 2005)), S60-S62.

Carey, L., Rumbold, B., Newell, C., & Aroni, R. (2006). Bioethical issues and health care chaplaincy in Australia. Scottish Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 9(1), 23-30.

Carey, L., Newell, C., & Rumbold, B. (2006). Pain control and chaplaincy in Australia. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 32(6), 589-601.

Rumbold, B. (2006). The spirituality of compassion: A public health response to ageing and end-of-life care. Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Ageing, 18(2/3), 31-44.

Rumbold, B. (2004). Spirituality, health care and pastoral care. In J.Foskett and E. Lartey (Eds.), Spirituality and culture in pastoral care and counselling: Voices from different contexts (pp. 101-113). Great Britain: Cardiff Academic Press.

Rumbold, Bruce and Rachel Gear. 2004. Evaluation of Health Promotion Resource Team: Hume Region Palliative Care Caring Communities Project.

Lin, Vivian, Sally Fawkes, Ehsani, Gregory Murphy, Sandra Leggat, Sophie Hill, Genevieve Howse, Bruce Rumbold, and Chaojie Liu. 2004. Patient at the centre: Reorienting healthcare practices. Kobe, Japan: WHO-WPRO.

Rumbold, B. (2003). Attending to spiritual care. Health Issues, 77, 14-17.

Rumbold, B. (2003). Caring for the spirit: Lessons from working with the dying. Medical Journal of Australia, 179(6), S11-S13.

Rumbold, B. (2003). Protestantism. In R. Kastenbaum (Ed.), Macmillan encyclopedia of death and dying (Volume 1, A-K) (pp. 685-686). New York: Thomson Gale.

Rumbold, B. (2003). Review of: Baker, M. (2001). Families, labour and love: Family diversity in a changing world. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 9(1), 118.

Rumbold, B., & Hudson, R. (2003). Spiritual care. In M. O'Connor & S. Aranda (Eds.), Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice (pp. 69-86). Melbourne: Ausmed Publications.

Rumbold, B. (ed) (2002) Spirituality and Palliative Care. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Rumbold, B. (2000) "Pastoral Care of the Dying and Bereaved" in A. Kellehear (ed) Death and Dying in Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 284-297.

Rumbold, B. (2000) "Pastoral Care and Public Health" Ministry, Society & Theology 14(1), 1-14.

Rumbold, B. (1998) "Implications of Mainstreaming Hospice into Palliative Care Services" in J. Parker and S. Aranda (eds) Palliative Care: Explorations and Challenges. Sydney: MacLennan &Petty, 24-34.