The parish clergy as a mental health resource

Challenges to sanctuary: the clergy as a resource for mental health care in the community.

The transfer of psychiatric care from the institution to the community has presented community structures including faith-based organisations (FBOs) with an additional burden of care. In recent years there has been an increasing policy interest among government departments, public and non-statutory agencies for the inclusion of FBOs as partners in health and welfare services. However, despite t...

Family Intervention Police Teams as a Community Mental Health Resource

Posttraumatic stress, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for collaboration, training, and research.

This article addresses the need for improved clergy-mental health professional collaboration in the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tens of millions of North Americans with personal problems seek the counsel of clergy. There is an absence of research on the function of clergy as helpers with the traumatized and on the psychological dynamics of religious coping ...

The integral role of pastoral counseling by African-American clergy in community mental health.

OBJECTIVE Little is currently known about the pastoral counseling work of pastors of African-American churches. The authors interviewed the pastors of nearly all African-American churches in a metropolitan area about their pastoral counseling work and related aspects of their ministry. METHODS Of 121 African-American pastors identified, 99 completed a semistructured interview describing their...

A Pilot Survey of Clergy Regarding Mental Health Care for Children

Collaborations between healthcare and faith-based organizations have emerged in the drive to improve access to care. Little research has examined clergy views on collaborations in the provision of mental healthcare, particularly to children. The current paper reports survey responses of 25 clergy from diverse religious traditions concerning mental health care in children. Subjects queried inclu...