num_pages: 245
description: The essays in this volume stress the legitimacy and importance of the role of administering comfort and reassurance to the terminally ill. This book is a practical guide for caring for the dying and those they leave behind, written especially for the clergy. The book is divided into three sections: an overview of the pastoral role; death and dying; and loss and grief. Among the topics covered are community resources, interdisciplinary care skills; education and research; working with health care professionals; loss as an experience in living; family issues in coping with change and loss resulting from surgery and chronic illness; and issues and strategies in managing anticipatory grief and bereavement.
language: English
title: The Pastoral Role in Caring for the Dying and Bereaved: Pragmatic and Ecumenical
titlecomplete: The Pastoral Role in Caring for the Dying and Bereaved: Pragmatic and Ecumenical (Foundations of Thanatology, Volume 7)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Praeger