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Training Guide for Visiting the Sick - More Than a Social Call (Hardcover)
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Training Guide for Visiting the Sick - More Than a Social Call (Hardcover)
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Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral careand make
your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you! Training Guide
for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook
from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and
not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to
the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a bedside
hospital chaplain, the author explains appropriate and
inappropriate behaviors and suggests things to say (or not to say)
to truly make your next visit fruitful for you and the patient.
More than simply an educational tool, this guidebook provides
clergy and Christian laypeople with spiritual explanations and
straightforward strategies to not only comfort the patient but also
foster the sense of joy and accomplishment in oneself. Training
Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call teaches you to
glean a positive experience from a difficult task, the visit to the
sick. The author shares his insights learned in his lengthy and
distinguished career in this instructional guidebook. Honest and
compassionate in its portrayal of the sick and dying, the book
prepares the reader spiritually, emotionally, and even physically
for the challenge of the visit while focusing on the distress and
the needs of the patient. At times stating practical common sense,
other times shining an insightful light on the less physical
aspects of the visit, this educational handbook is invaluable for
all who minister, or wish to minister, to the sick. Training Guide
for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call discusses: Jesus'
Eleventh CommandmentTo Love One Another how to prepare yourself
spiritually and emotionally for the visit the hospital patient's
world explanations of patients' possible emotional, financial,
family, and spiritual distress do's and don'ts to note before and
during a visit to the patient's room the special needs of shut-ins
ministering to the dying ministering to difficult patients
ministering to Alzheimer's or comatose patients Training Guide for
Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a practical
educational guide for pastors, supervisors in clinical pastoral
education programs, CPE students, college and seminary students in
courses in ministry to the sick, police and fire department
chaplains, and family and friends of hospitalized, nursing home,
and assisted living patients/residents.
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