Professional spiritual & pastoral care : a practical clergy and chaplain's handbook /

Professional spiritual & pastoral care : a practical clergy and chaplain's handbook / edited by Stephen B. Roberts in consultation with D.W. Donovan ... [and others. - Woodstock, Vermont : SkyLight Paths Pub., (c)2012. - xv, 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Part I. Theology of spritual/pastoral care : -- Creating a personal theology to do spiritual/pastoral care -- Creating a personal theology to do spiritual/pastoral care -- Part II. The process of spiritual/pastoral care : -- The process of spiritual/pastoral care: a general theory for providing spiritual/pastoral care using palliative care as a paradigm -- Assessments -- Creating and implementing a spiritual/pastoral care plan -- Chaplains and charting -- Foundational listening and responding skills -- Prayer and ritual -- Counseling and interventions -- Inspiring hope: confronting fear, guilt and shame in spiritual/pastoral care -- Life review -- End-of-life chaplaincy care -- Ethics and the care of the sick: an overview for professional chaplains and other spiritual/pastoral care providers -- Spirituality groups -- Spiritual care of staff -- Gender issues in pastoral care -- Working with community religious resources -- Transdisciplinary relationships -- Part III. Spiritual/pastoral care with special populations : -- Spiritual/pastoral care in worlds beyond: ministry to international and immigrant patients -- Pediatric chaplancy -- Behavioral health -- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Spritual/pastoral care with people with disabilities and their families -- Chronic illness -- Complicated grief: exploring arresting grief and survival grief in spiritual/pastoral care -- Part IV. The infrastructure of spiritual/pastoral care : -- Strategic planning: a basis for all infrastructure development and growth within spiritual/pastoral care -- Outcome oriented chaplaincy: itentional caring -- Referral plans: developing and implementing tactical plans regarding who chaplains should visit -- Quality improvement: A chaplaincy priority -- Health care chaplaincy as a research-informed profession -- Cultural Competencies -- Sacred space -- Blessings of a mixed population: institutional prayer in multifaith communities (GLBT) people --



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