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Does the scientific process belong in pastoral counseling?
Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education Should
Become More Scientific: Yes and No examines the widespread
ambivalence among pastoral caregivers and educators over the
growing inclusion of science in pastoral care and counseling
methodologies. Twenty-three seasoned professionals in the field
give candid and sometimes emotional accounts of their interest
inand reservations aboutthe role scientific research plays in their
profession. Some authors look at the issue from a historical
perspective; others voice additional concerns. A few make concrete
proposals on how chaplaincy can become more scientific. The result
is a unique insight into the relationship between the secular and
the religious. The question of whether science belongs in pastoral
care and counseling is moot; pastoral care already makes extensive
use of psychological testing and psychotherapeutic skillsall
products of scientific thinking. But as technology becomes more
dominant and health care delivery reflects a more corporate
perspective, pastoral caregivers and educators are divided on
whether the changes represent the significant opportunity to
improve a ministry or the surrender of the ministry's very essence.
The essays collected in Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical
Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific: Yes and No go a
step farther, breaking down the issue of faith versus science into
more specific questions for pastoral caregivers, such as: Can what
you do be measured? Do you have an obligation to embrace the
challenge of change? Is becoming more scientific a necessity for
staying in touch with your health care peers? How cost effective is
the pastoral care you provide if it doesn't include the scientific
process? Could a reluctance to incorporate science into your
counseling cost you your job? Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical
Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific: Yes and No
presents thoughtful and thought-provoking debate that is a
must-read for all pastoral caregivers and educators.
Does the scientific process belong in pastoral counseling?
Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education Should
Become More Scientific: Yes and No examines the widespread
ambivalence among pastoral caregivers and educators over the
growing inclusion of science in pastoral care and counseling
methodologies. Twenty-three seasoned professionals in the field
give candid and sometimes emotional accounts of their interest
inand reservations aboutthe role scientific research plays in their
profession. Some authors look at the issue from a historical
perspective; others voice additional concerns. A few make concrete
proposals on how chaplaincy can become more scientific. The result
is a unique insight into the relationship between the secular and
the religious. The question of whether science belongs in pastoral
care and counseling is moot; pastoral care already makes extensive
use of psychological testing and psychotherapeutic skillsall
products of scientific thinking. But as technology becomes more
dominant and health care delivery reflects a more corporate
perspective, pastoral caregivers and educators are divided on
whether the changes represent the significant opportunity to
improve a ministry or the surrender of the ministry's very essence.
The essays collected in Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical
Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific: Yes and No go a
step farther, breaking down the issue of faith versus science into
more specific questions for pastoral caregivers, such as: Can what
you do be measured? Do you have an obligation to embrace the
challenge of change? Is becoming more scientific a necessity for
staying in touch with your health care peers? How cost effective is
the pastoral care you provide if it doesn't include the scientific
process? Could a reluctance to incorporate science into your
counseling cost you your job? Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical
Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific: Yes and No
presents thoughtful and thought-provoking debate that is a
must-read for all pastoral caregivers and educators.
Understand the roles of these three unique professions and how
collaboration can make each more effective This is the first book
to clarify the roles and interprofessional dynamics of these three
professions and describe how they can best work together. Here
you'll find theological perspectives on each profession, practice
models of collaborative programs, and new resources to aid your
professional growth. In addition, this book gives you a thorough
historical overview of parish nursing and an introduction to health
care chaplaincy as well as insightful analyses of the relationships
of clergy and congregation to health care institutions. Parish
Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy: Navigating the
Maze of Professional Relationships is a vital addition to your
reference shelf. This unique book, written by experts in all three
fields, provides: the necessary background to be an effective
parish nurse, including information on spiritual formation,
clinical pastoral education, and more instruction on starting a
parish health ministry effective ways that the disciplines can work
together in congregational health ministries to provide the best
possible spiritual care successful practice models that your
ministry can emulate an examination of the health care
institution's role in forming the spiritual care team resources to
use to increase your ministry's effectiveness Parish Nurses, Health
Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy is a must for practitioners,
educators, and students who will be entering these vital
professions
Many people agree that prayer is a central feature of spiritual
life. But what is prayer? Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on
Intercessory Prayer: An Exchange Between Larry Dossey, MD, and
Health Care Chaplains explores common questions and concerns about
intercessory prayer, or the act of praying for the benefit of
others, from several different points of view. Chaplains, priests,
ministers, and clergy in the health care profession will learn how
prayer is examined from sources other than traditional Christian
views, such as parapsychology. From Scientific and Pastoral
Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer, you will learn what prayer
means to some chaplains and to their ministry and how prayer can
make drastic changes in the lives of your parishioners, patients,
and their families.Written by eight chaplains, the articles in this
text are in response to an essay by Larry Dossey, a nationally
known physician who speaks and writes about prayer. The
contributors to Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on
Intercessory Prayer discuss his points of view on intercessory
prayer, which are based on quantum physics. You will learn if this
area of physics can make a difference in how you practice your
faith, how you worship, and what you think about or expect from
prayer. Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer
examines several other topics related to prayer, including:
discovering whether or not intercessory prayer is truly different
from other methods of meditation exploring the relationship between
intercessory prayer and meditative or praise prayer linking prayers
and their results to the expectations or intentions of those who
engage in them differentiating between an intercession and a wish
deciding for yourself what constitutes evidence or proof when
discussing the aspects of prayer how our opinion of prayer relates
to how we think about the universe and about God Since Scientific
and Pastoral Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer focuses on the
cooperation between science and theology, you will discover that,
in many instances, people believe that the power of prayer should
be taken seriously. This text also shows you how the questions and
functions of prayer are shared by everyone, despite religious
differences or methods of praying. Encompassing research and
personal experiences, Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on
Intercessory Prayer will help you answer questions about religion
and its role in the lives of parishioners, patients, and clergy, as
well as provide you with evidence to the positive and healing power
of prayer.
Many people agree that prayer is a central feature of spiritual
life. But what is prayer? Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on
Intercessory Prayer: An Exchange Between Larry Dossey, MD, and
Health Care Chaplains explores common questions and concerns about
intercessory prayer, or the act of praying for the benefit of
others, from several different points of view. Chaplains, priests,
ministers, and clergy in the health care profession will learn how
prayer is examined from sources other than traditional Christian
views, such as parapsychology. From Scientific and Pastoral
Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer, you will learn what prayer
means to some chaplains and to their ministry and how prayer can
make drastic changes in the lives of your parishioners, patients,
and their families.Written by eight chaplains, the articles in this
text are in response to an essay by Larry Dossey, a nationally
known physician who speaks and writes about prayer. The
contributors to Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on
Intercessory Prayer discuss his points of view on intercessory
prayer, which are based on quantum physics. You will learn if this
area of physics can make a difference in how you practice your
faith, how you worship, and what you think about or expect from
prayer. Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer
examines several other topics related to prayer, including:
discovering whether or not intercessory prayer is truly different
from other methods of meditation exploring the relationship between
intercessory prayer and meditative or praise prayer linking prayers
and their results to the expectations or intentions of those who
engage in them differentiating between an intercession and a wish
deciding for yourself what constitutes evidence or proof when
discussing the aspects of prayer how our opinion of prayer relates
to how we think about the universe and about God Since Scientific
and Pastoral Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer focuses on the
cooperation between science and theology, you will discover that,
in many instances, people believe that the power of prayer should
be taken seriously. This text also shows you how the questions and
functions of prayer are shared by everyone, despite religious
differences or methods of praying. Encompassing research and
personal experiences, Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on
Intercessory Prayer will help you answer questions about religion
and its role in the lives of parishioners, patients, and clergy, as
well as provide you with evidence to the positive and healing power
of prayer.
Structure your ministry to start with patients'needs, hopes, and
resources and to be clear what difference your ministry can make
Hospital chaplains value who they are and what they do as
contributions to patients'and families'healing and well-being. And
they are continually stretching to enhance their ministries.
Hospital administrators and other professionals on the care teams,
however, often need help to grasp those same values in outcome
oriented, observable, documentable, changes-for-the-better terms.
The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving: Foundations for Outcome
Oriented Chaplaincy offers a powerful new paradigm for enhancing
supportive, effective spiritual care for patients and families as
well as communicating substantive outcomes to leaders and
clinicians alike. This is all the more important in these times
when every possible resource must be well used for the good of our
patients and their families.By evaluating the pastoral care you
offer, you can become more aware of the discrete skills you
exercise in the assessment, planning, intervention, and reflection
process. Such evaluation efforts highlight the discrete differences
excellent spiritual care makes. This can help you track
contributions you are making in terms of the patient's healing and
well-being. Having a sound, replicable way to make the process more
conscious also helps you communicate your assessment, strategies,
and contributions more clearly to other care team members.
Furthermore, consistently using The Discipline over time will
enable you to discover patterns of spiritual dynamics in how people
live with different health care challenges in their lives. These
patterns translate into valuable insights as your care for
others.The process discussed in The Discipline for Pastoral Care
Giving calls on the chaplain to: identify the patient's spiritual
needs, hopes, and resources construct a patient profile through
identifying the individual's sense of the holy, sense of meaning,
sense of hope, and sense of community design the desired outcome(s)
you hope your care will contribute--for example, a person who has
suffered a spinal cord injury integrates the effects of their
injury in their sense of identity and meaning, a person living with
cystic fibrosis healthfully grieves the loss of others in the CF
community, a patient 'disabled'by the absence of her support
community regains use of her personal resources for coping and
self-care develop and share a plan for the patient's spiritual care
choose interventions (which may range from facilitating a life
review, to compassionate confrontation, to reading Scripture, to
active listening, to arranging a family care conference) measure
outcomes, identifying and communicating the difference your care
has made in terms of the patient's healing and well-beingThe
Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving offers case studies, personal
experiences, helpful figures and charts, and suggestions for
dealing with patients experiencing unique, complex health care
challenges, including adults living with cystic fibrosis and
violent victims of violence. The wise advice and practical
suggestions in this book will help you recognize and document the
solid value of your hospital ministry.
Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia explores spirituality in
those with dementia to enrich our understanding of the neurological
and psychological aspects of hope, prayer, and the power of belief.
You will discover how your ministry is vitally relevant to the
clinical well-being and quality of life of people with Alzheimer's
disease. Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia provides you with
a model spiritual care program for long-term facilities that
supplies you with ideas you can implement in your own ministry. You
will learn to avoid cognitive pastoral care method that can be
hurtful to those suffering with dementia by using new approaches
found in Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia. This book
provides you with suggestions about how to spiritually care for
people with dementia.These important recommendations include:
understanding the value of pastoral contact when ministering to
people with a loss of cognitive functions and memory discovering
the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold psychosocial model
(PLST) that can make important contributions by enhancing the
quality of life for people with dementia providing pastoral care
using nonverbal methods to overcome the barriers of cognitive
dysfunction exploring a client's cognitive and emotional reality on
a daily basis to determine how to best interact with him or her
gaining insight into how a thorough analysis of the illness and
personal religious history can assist in planning religious
activities that provide comfort and solace for people with dementia
and their families Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia
describes religious, theological, and psychodynamic perspectives
that will help you to offer better spiritual care for people with
dementia. Using your newly acquired skills from Spiritual Care for
Persons with Dementia, you will be more effective when ministering
to people with Alzheimer's Disease and to their families.
Learn how to establish and maintain effective relationships with
physicians with this authoritative new book. Chaplains will
discover a wealth of information and insight into the often
strained chaplain-physician relationship and will learn practical
steps they can take to strengthen the ties between two very
different professions. Each chapter, written by a chaplain with a
history of successful collaboration with physicians, features
important examples of interdisciplinary cooperative effort in
various settings including obstetrics, geriatrics, and outpatient
cardiac rehabilitation centers. Hospital chaplains, especially
those who wish to improve their relationships with physicians and
hospital administrators will find this to be an invaluable book, as
will pastoral counselors not presently involved with hospitals who
desire to work with physicians in health and illness
settings.Highlights of the book include: an inside view of medical
education and practice, with a description of the dilemmas of
medical practice which are very different from those in ministry A
constructive look at "doctor bashing" in which many chaplains
engage, often unknowingly a description of pastoral care efforts in
discrete patient care areas that involve close relationships to
physicians, with an emphasis on friendship and informal contacts an
overview of a program in which the chaplains's role is expanded to
that of a behavioral medicine consultant
Structure your ministry to start with patients'needs, hopes, and
resources and to be clear what difference your ministry can
make!Hospital chaplains value who they are and what they do as
contributions to patients'and families'healing and well-being. And
they are continually stretching to enhance their ministries.
Hospital administrators and other professionals on the care teams,
however, often need help to grasp those same values in outcome
oriented, observable, documentable, changes-for-the-better terms.
The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving: Foundations for Outcome
Oriented Chaplaincy offers a powerful new paradigm for enhancing
supportive, effective spiritual care for patients and families as
well as communicating substantive outcomes to leaders and
clinicians alike. This is all the more important in these times
when every possible resource must be well used for the good of our
patients and their families.By evaluating the pastoral care you
offer, you can become more aware of the discrete skills you
exercise in the assessment, planning, intervention, and reflection
process. Such evaluation efforts highlight the discrete differences
excellent spiritual care makes. This can help you track
contributions you are making in terms of the patient's healing and
well-being. Having a sound, replicable way to make the process more
conscious also helps you communicate your assessment, strategies,
and contributions more clearly to other care team members.
Furthermore, consistently using The Discipline over time will
enable you to discover patterns of spiritual dynamics in how people
live with different health care challenges in their lives. These
patterns translate into valuable insights as your care for
others.The process discussed in The Discipline for Pastoral Care
Giving calls on the chaplain to: identify the patient's spiritual
needs, hopes, and resources construct a patient profile through
identifying the individual's sense of the holy, sense of meaning,
sense of hope, and sense of community design the desired outcome(s)
you hope your care will contribute--for example, a person who has
suffered a spinal cord injury integrates the effects of their
injury in their sense of identity and meaning, a person living with
cystic fibrosis healthfully grieves the loss of others in the CF
community, a patient 'disabled'by the absence of her support
community regains use of her personal resources for coping and
self-care develop and share a plan for the patient's spiritual care
choose interventions (which may range from facilitating a life
review, to compassionate confrontation, to reading Scripture, to
active listening, to arranging a family care conference) measure
outcomes, identifying and communicating the difference your care
has made in terms of the patient's healing and well-beingThe
Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving offers case studies, personal
experiences, helpful figures and charts, and suggestions for
dealing with patients experiencing unique, complex health care
challenges, including adults living with cystic fibrosis and
violent victims of violence. The wise advice and practical
suggestions in this book will help you recognize and document the
solid value of your hospital ministry.
Choose innovative strategies for ministering to patients, families,
and staff in a time of change! In the scramble to cut health care
costs and the need to make every penny count, the hospital
chaplaincy program is at serious risk for being trimmed or
eliminated. Professional Chaplaincy: What Is Happening to It During
Health Care Reform? offers a clear look at the current situation
and positive suggestions for showing administrators just how
essential chaplaincy is.This essential volume includes original
research showing the specific consequences of the new emphasis on
economic rationalism, as well as moving firsthand accounts of the
effects of downsizing and budget cuts. An Australian case study
catalogs and analyzes the outcomes of a drive for cost efficiency
in a hospital chaplain department. A thorough literature review
provides opportunities for chaplains and administrators to
investigate the value of pastoral care in hospital
settings.Professional Chaplaincy includes practical suggestions for
ways to respond to budget cuts, such as: redefining the scope of
your ministry strengthening community ties ministering to staff
worried about heath care reform efforts offering new programs to
enrich spiritual life documenting pastoral care visits researching
the value of chaplaincy to the well-being of patients and
familiesProfessional Chaplaincy offers positive ways that hospital
chaplains can take action in response to the new health care
paradigm. This informative book will assist you in developing
future plans for maintaining and improving your hospital ministry.
Create the Pastoral Care Center that your flock needs Contract
Pastoral Care and Education: The Trend of the Future? provides
clergy of all faiths and pastoral care students with insight into
the shifting role of chaplains in today's health care environment
and explains why many of these positions are disappearing.
Examining alternatives to working at hospitals and health care
agencies, such as establishing independent contract centers that
are commissioned by health care organizations, this book examines
the many questions that chaplains are more frequently asking about
the stability of their profession. Comprehensive and current,
Contract Pastoral Care and Education offers suggestions and models
to help you plan your own pastoral care center and continue serving
individuals with spiritual care. This honest and informative book
contains discussions with chaplains and educators about nine of
these care centers in operation, as well as the responses of five
chaplains who offer compliments and constructive criticism of these
organizations. Exploring the reasons for the decrease in
opportunities for pastoral caregivers, such as the decrease of
rural populations and the increase of community-based services,
Contract Pastoral Care and Education provides you with tips and
suggestions that other centers use in order to be effective and
successful, including: raising funds from the community, state, and
government for operational fees appointing internal,
structure-diversified board members who serve without compensation
and officers and memberships with specific terms and functions
responding to the growing numbers of patients by training lay
persons under clinical supervision generating support groups
consisting of patients and family members from multiple bereavement
groups or organizations to offer comfort and care to othersFull of
insight and immediately useful techniques, Contract Pastoral Care
and Education will help you keep serving patients and assist you in
pursuing a growing facet of the pastoral care field.
Create the Pastoral Care Center that your flock needs!Contract
Pastoral Care and Education: The Trend of the Future? provides
clergy of all faiths and pastoral care students with insight into
the shifting role of chaplains in today's health care environment
and explains why many of these positions are disappearing.
Examining alternatives to working at hospitals and health care
agencies, such as establishing independent contract centers that
are commissioned by health care organizations, this book examines
the many questions that chaplains are more frequently asking about
the stability of their profession. Comprehensive and current,
Contract Pastoral Care and Education offers suggestions and models
to help you plan your own pastoral care center and continue serving
individuals with spiritual care. This honest and informative book
contains discussions with chaplains and educators about nine of
these care centers in operation, as well as the responses of five
chaplains who offer compliments and constructive criticism of these
organizations. Exploring the reasons for the decrease in
opportunities for pastoral caregivers, such as the decrease of
rural populations and the increase of community-based services,
Contract Pastoral Care and Education provides you with tips and
suggestions that other centers use in order to be effective and
successful, including: raising funds from the community, state, and
government for operational fees appointing internal,
structure-diversified board members who serve without compensation
and officers and memberships with specific terms and functions
responding to the growing numbers of patients by training lay
persons under clinical supervision generating support groups
consisting of patients and family members from multiple bereavement
groups or organizations to offer comfort and care to othersFull of
insight and immediately useful techniques, Contract Pastoral Care
and Education will help you keep serving patients and assist you in
pursuing a growing facet of the pastoral care field.
Learn how to establish and maintain effective relationships with
physicians with this authoritative new book. Chaplains will
discover a wealth of information and insight into the often
strained chaplain-physician relationship and will learn practical
steps they can take to strengthen the ties between two very
different professions. Each chapter, written by a chaplain with a
history of successful collaboration with physicians, features
important examples of interdisciplinary cooperative effort in
various settings including obstetrics, geriatrics, and outpatient
cardiac rehabilitation centers. Hospital chaplains, especially
those who wish to improve their relationships with physicians and
hospital administrators will find this to be an invaluable book, as
will pastoral counselors not presently involved with hospitals who
desire to work with physicians in health and illness
settings.Highlights of the book include: an inside view of medical
education and practice, with a description of the dilemmas of
medical practice which are very different from those in ministry A
constructive look at "doctor bashing" in which many chaplains
engage, often unknowingly a description of pastoral care efforts in
discrete patient care areas that involve close relationships to
physicians, with an emphasis on friendship and informal contacts an
overview of a program in which the chaplains's role is expanded to
that of a behavioral medicine consultant
Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia explores spirituality in
those with dementia to enrich our understanding of the neurological
and psychological aspects of hope, prayer, and the power of belief.
You will discover how your ministry is vitally relevant to the
clinical well-being and quality of life of people with Alzheimer's
disease. Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia provides you with
a model spiritual care program for long-term facilities that
supplies you with ideas you can implement in your own ministry.You
will learn to avoid cognitive pastoral care method that can be
hurtful to those suffering with dementia by using new approaches
found in Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia. This book
provides you with suggestions about how to spiritually care for
people with dementia. These important recommendations include:
understanding the value of pastoral contact when ministering to
people with a loss of cognitive functions and memory discovering
the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold psychosocial model
(PLST) that can make important contributions by enhancing the
quality of life for people with dementia providing pastoral care
using nonverbal methods to overcome the barriers of cognitive
dysfunction exploring a client's cognitive and emotional reality on
a daily basis to determine how to best interact with him or her
gaining insight into how a thorough analysis of the illness and
personal religious history can assist in planning religious
activities that provide comfort and solace for people with dementia
and their familiesSpiritual Care for Persons with Dementia
describes religious, theological, and psychodynamic perspectives
that will help you to offer better spiritual care for people with
dementia. Using your newly acquired skills from Spiritual Care for
Persons with Dementia, you will be more effective when ministering
to people with Alzheimer's Disease and to their families.
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