Take your rightful place on the holistic health care team, with the
goal of restoring vitality of body, mind, and spirit to people
suffering from emotional illness! This book is designed to bring
essential knowledge and skills to the religious professional who
seeks to provide special ministry to the emotionally troubled. It
provides a basic understanding of psychiatric illnesses, theory,
and treatment modalities that is certain to enlarge the perspective
of the pastoral worker. In addition to an essential overview of
psychiatry in general, Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A
Guide for Pastoral Counselors will help you to better serve people
suffering from depression, anxiety disorders, chemical dependency,
reality impairment, or personality disorders. The book's format is
designed specifically to help pastors grasp the principles of
intervention in each of these disorders. Each of its five concise
clinical chapters follows a four-part format that covers the duties
and responsibilities of the clergyman as part of the holistic
health care team, consisting of: recognizing the disorder assessing
its severity intervening in a crisis counseling in the recovery
phase In their experience, the authors have observed that severe
emotional or psychiatric illnesses often involve spiritual sickness
as well. Spiritual sickness is a complex concept that may take many
forms depending on the type of emotional illness it accompanies.
Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral
Counselors shows you what spiritual symptoms to look for when
assessing someone in your care. For example, did you know that:
severe depressive illness could include the loss of faith,
abandonment of hope, loss of a right relationship with God, or even
self-hatred, guilt, despair, and self-annihilation a psychotic
reaction marked by loss of contact with reality might involve
abnormal self-importance, grandiosity, fear, or stubbornly mistaken
perceptions of reality a problem with alcoholism might involve
immoral behavior, irresponsible conduct, denial of the loss of
control over liquor consumption, or abject guilt, shame, and
self-hatred personality disorders may bring on profound
disturbances in social relationships, self-centered anger,
impulsiveness, dishonesty, impurity, or distrust of others people
with anxiety disorders can lose their trust in God, develop
obsessive fears and tensions, and become unable to turn things over
to God's divine care In Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A
Guide for Pastoral Counselors, you'll find the information you need
to make effective judgments and assessments about the people
seeking your help. The book provides you with fascinating case
studies that highlight symptoms and illness patterns as well as
treatment options and techniques for coordinating pastoral
counseling with the mental health team. You'll learn to recognize
the spiritual symptoms of diseasenegative, inappropriate, of
self-defeating attitudes or behaviorsand to deal specifically with
these manifestations of illness through pastoral intervention and
counseling.
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