Vulnerance of Pastoral Care

Psychological Problems and Pastoral Care

Her warning against telling the depressive "to pull himself together" or "humouri0^ the paranoid is still necessary in some quarters, although many points mention should already be known to an experienced parish priest. In obsessive illness aI\ reactive depression, the minister can play a most useful part in giving a Pafie{? hearing, comfort and re-assurance. "Anxiety-prone" seems a most timely...

Counselling: Pastoral Care or Psychotherapy?

Use the word 'counselling' in the presence of Christian ministers and it is guaranteed to produce a whole variety of responses. Some will readily and warmly receive the word because they have taken a counselling course, read some counselling books or practised some counselling skills; others will want a more precise definition to clarify just what is meant, and yet others will react in horror a...

The Pastoral Care of the Mentally Ill

Pastoral care in hospitals: a literature review.

AIMS AND BACKGROUND This literature review investigates the potential contribution of the pastoral care provided in hospitals by hospital chaplains, as part of an integrated view of patient care, particularly in institutions dealing with severe disease. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN A search was conducted in the Medline database covering the last 10 years. RESULTS Ninety-eight articles were cons...

Pastoral care in the modern hospital.

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book pastoral care in the modern hospital. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no space to bring the book for...