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A Ritual of Remarriage
Authors: Morgan Richard Lyon
Published: May 2015

Describes a rationale for, and gives an example of, a ritual of remarriage which includes in it the elements of a Christian theology of remarriage, the promise of support of the community of the faithful, and the involvement of the children of the previous marriages.
Pastoral Opportunities to Help Families Prevent Teenage Pregnancy
Authors: Rolfe David J.
Published: May 2015

Reviews the events of death in the family and the lack of sex education in the home as precipitating factors in teenage pregnancy. Notes that clergy are in a uniquely advantageous position to help families avoid the trauma of teenage pregnancy through well-timed support and intervention with members of their congregations. Outlines specific approaches usable in parish ministry.
Surveys: Do They Solve Problems or Raise Them?
Authors: Fowler Marylu Jensen
Published: May 2015

Outlines procedures and makes suggestions for conducting a survey. Stresses the importance of a sharp focus, choice of correct method, planning questions carefully, and initiating ways of gaining adequate responses.
Pastoral Burnout: A View from the Seminary
Authors: Harbaugh Gary L. , Rogers Evan
Published: May 2015

Reports on a Pace Study in which 144 seminarians responded to the Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale, a wholistic questionnaire, and other tests measuring both state and trait anxiety. Differences in resident classes are noted, along with anxiety differentials where perceptions of change and Christ consciousness are present or absent. Suggests that the continuous presence of stress in both seminary and parish needs to be addressed in a holistic way, and that the shepherding of pastors by Bishops and the education of seminarians by theological educators need a “doing theology” approach similar to that which has been developed by Clinical Pastoral Education.
Healing Prayer and Pastoral Care
Authors: Furniss George M.
Published: May 2015

Declares that healing prayer is a point of intersection of one's theology and one's practice of pastoral care. Identifies some theological presuppositions which undergird prayers for physical healing; outlines methods of healing prayer which can be used by the chaplain and by patients; discusses how clergy can integrate into their ministries modes of healing prayer; and notes some institutional and practical considerations of spiritual healing as it interfaces with modern culture notions.
Immanence and Transcendence in Pastoral Care: Some Basic Considerations
Authors: Jernigan Homer L.
Published: May 2015

Sees pastoral care as the total response of pastor and congregation to people in crisis. Both immanent and transcendent aspects of such responsiveness are important. Immanence is being with troubled persons in understanding and dependable ways; transcendence is being sufficiently detached from the situation to make realistic assessments, identify growth goals, and find ways to facilitate spiritual growth. Both modes need to be combined in pastoral care as a form of crisis ministry. Discusses assumptions and methods for such a combination and illustrates with an actual case.
The Female Chaplain's Contributions to Breast Cancer Management
Authors: Clanton Jann Aldredge
Published: May 2015

Maintains that a female chaplain's ministry to women breast cancer patients holds unique qualities because of the chaplain's ease of achieving physical and psychological identification with the mastectomy patient. Notes particularly how a female chaplain can provide a relationship for affirmation of self-esteem, confession, and repentance. Illustrates with actual cases ways the female chaplain can share in the feminine identity crisis, participate in the struggle to claim God-given dignity and worth, and be genuinely present for healing the resentment and guilt often accompanying the mastectomy patient's loss.
I Want to be God and I am not God: Two Reflections
Authors: Close Henry T.
Published: May 2015

Reflects on an incident in which a patient in a mental health facility asks the chaplain to be God and another incident in which the same chaplain is made painfully aware of his finitude.
Marketing Pastoral Counseling
Authors: Lageman August G.
Published: May 2015

Identifies, suggests understandings, and illustrates applications of marketing principles as they relate to pastoral counseling services. Describes four approaches to marketing pastoral counseling—traditional, educational, marketing, and fund raising—and gives illustrations of each. A director of an established pastoral counseling center responds to the article in terms of “high density” and “low density” principles and suggests that strategies which emulate the medical model may need to be re-examined by contemporary pastoral counselors.
A Format for an Ethical and Emotional Divorce
Authors: Gordon Lorni Heyman , Gordon Morris
Published: May 2015

Expresses the notion that a ritual of divorce is sorely needed in our contemporary society. Offers a format for such a ritual and provides a detailed example of a ceremony. Critical comments and responses are offered by experienced divorce and marriage counselors, one a Protestant minister, the other a Rabbi.
Pastoral Care in a Native American Context
Authors: Mazur-Bullis Ronald
Published: May 2015

Describes four ceremonial movements of public grieving at the death of a Native American Man—the wake, the funeral, the commitment service, and the feast and Giveaway. Comments on how the Native American community has been able to integrate the Christian heritage with its own rich religious heritage.
Client Satisfaction with the Helping Process: A Review for the Pastoral Counselor
Authors: Royse David
Published: May 2015

Surveys client satisfaction studies conducted on a variety of clinical settings and notes that most such studies indicate high levels of client satisfaction. Urges pastoral counseling centers to join in this type of evaluative research and offers specific suggestions to overcome methodological problems frequently encountered in conducting client satisfaction surveys.
The Near-Death Experience: A Survey of Clergy's Attitudes and Knowledge
Authors: Royse David
Published: May 2015

Reports on a questionnaire survey of 174 clergy in an attempt to discover their attitudes and knowledge of the near-death experience. Concludes that it is not rare for near death accounts to be reported to clergy, that such reports are hardly ever “hellish” in tone, and that near-death experiencers tend to become more religious and their fear of dying lessened. Notes implications for pastoral counselors and speculates as to the reasons pastoral counselors may hesitate to introduce the topic of near-death experiences into their counseling.
The Minnesota Couples Communication Program and Clinical Pastoral Education
Authors: Knights Ward A. , Schneider Loretto , Denardo Robert
Published: May 2015

Describes the use of The Minnesota Couples Communication Program (MCCP) as part of a Clinical Pastoral Education unit's efforts to assist CPE students grow in communication skills. Notes four styles of communication and five modes of awareness and how these may lead to the establishment of more adequate communication and shared meaning. Observes that workshops using the MCCP may help pastors to initiate and improve their pastoral activities.
An Analysis of CPE Student Time Usage: The Impact of Training
Authors: Denham Thomas E.
Published: May 2015

Reports results of a research project on a population of 81 Clinical Pastoral Education students. Correlates demographic, training, and emotional variables with time usage. Discusses and interprets data and draws implications for CPE Supervisors and for CPE training programs.
Grief-Resolution Therapy in a Pastoral Context
Authors: Ingram Timothy L. , Hurley E. C. , Riley Mary Tom
Published: May 2015

Describes the use of grief-resolution therapy within a pastoral context. Differentiates between a normal and unresolved grief reaction and outlines treatment procedures particularly suited to the pastoral caregiver.
A Covenanting Process in Pastoral Home Visits
Authors: Coyle Suzanne Murphy
Published: May 2015

Presents a model of covenanting within a parish setting, basing it on a biblical and theological understanding of covenant and on an appreciation of the psychoanalytic notions of transference and countertransference. Discusses how the pastoral home visit may provide a context for the covenating and outlines stages of such a process. Briefly notes implications fo bbr pastoral home visitation.
Paradox and Promise: A Theological and Psychological View of Humankind
Authors: Dean Mary James
Published: May 2015

Uses literary examples and case materials to illustrate themes of (1) the power of existential roots, (2) the avoidance of personal responsibility, (3) the denial of reality, (4) the terror of individuation, (5) the fear of intimacy, and (6) the quest for unmingled pleasure. Offers therapeutic strategies for dealing with each of these themes and in doing so draws especially on the theories of leading family therapists.
Non-Professionals as Effective Helpers for Pastoral Counselors
Authors: Harris Janice
Published: May 2015

Reports on research of 44 pastoral counseling clients to test the hypothesis that a combination of professional pastoral counseling with the use of non-paid, nonprofessional lay helpers would result in a more favorable increase in self esteem for clients than would private, professional work only. Results support the hypothesis; and it is suggested that pastoral counselors would do well to consider the use of non-professional resource persons in their therapeutic activities.
Defining Pastoral Psychotherapy
Authors: Schlauch Chris R.
Published: May 2015

Notes the problems involved in attempting to define pastoral psychotherapy by using descriptive attributes. Defines pastoral psychotherapy as “a psychotherapeutic activity in which a pastoral psychotherapist observes, understands, and interprets the psychological, religious, and moral dimensions of the ongoing process through psychological, theological, and ethical frames of reference.” Offers a brief clinical illustration of how such a definition may find expression in the actual clinical practice.
Pastoral Care of the Sick: A Clinical Course for Medical Students
Authors: Sevensky Robert L. , Ebersole Myron L. , Derrickson Paul
Published: May 2015

Describes seven goals and objectives of a Clinical Pastoral Education course for medical students and reports on results based on subjective evaluations made by participants. Provides a list of possible changes in pedagogical style and content design which might enhance such a course.
African Symbols and Stories in Pastoral Care
Authors: Mpolc Masamba ma
Published: May 2015

Presents a case study of an African woman whose marriage ran counter to certain local customs and traditions and notes the resulting pathology. Interprets the case and the meanings by contrasting particular Western, individualistic propensities with the more extended family orientations of the Black African. Offers psychosocial interpretations of the dynamics of the case and provides implications and methodologies for pastoral care and counseling within African cultures.
Learning to Care: A Report on Pastoral Care Courses for Australian Congregations
Authors: Wastell Colin A.
Published: May 2015

Describes in detail an eight-evening introductory course in pastoral care. Notes the difficulties encountered in offering such a course and lists as well the gains received.
Responding to Questions in Pastoral Care
Authors: Bogia B. Preston
Published: May 2015

Emphasizes the importance of questions by both counselor and counselee. Notes that questions asked by the counselor almost always are experienced by the counselee as attacks, intrusions, or demands. Lists alternatives to the asking of questions by the counselor. Observes that questions asked by the counselee are almost always intended to convey a message. Lists a variety of possibilities for responding to direct questions asked by counselees.
Lasting Effects of CPE: A Five Year Review
Authors: Derrickson Paul , Ebersole Myron
Published: May 2015

?Altcmpls to test the hypothesis that Clinical Pastoral Education is an effective means of training people for ministry by surveying former CPE students using a questionnaire. Concludes from statistical analyses of results that the particular program surveyed produced lasting effects. A critical response in which limitations of the survey are noted, particularly in the area of methodology, is offered by an outside professional.
Indiana Clergy: A Survey of their Human Genetics/Bioethics Educational Needs
Authors: Mertens Thomas R. , Hendrix Jon R. , Mendenhall Gordon L.
Published: May 2015

Documents the self-perceivcd needs of a sample of Indiana clergy relative to understanding the impact of advances in human genetics, which, while creating opportunities for better health and a better quality of life, also raise serious moral, ethical, and spiritual questions. Interprets clergy responses to 16 science/society issues and compares these responses to the reactions of two Indiana teacher populations. Emphasizes the role of the pastoral counselor in serving the total needs of individuals confronting crises resulting from medical genetic problems. Asserts that a concerted effort must be initiated to meet the human genetics/bioethics education needs of the clergy if clergy are to be successful in counseling the people in their congregations … Critical comments are offered by a professional pastoral counselor not involved in the original research.
Prayer for the Communion of Saints
Authors: Dearment Daniel C.
Published: May 2015

O Lord Most High, we give Thee thanks for all Thy saints, martyrs, and confessors; for all the faithful who in every age have witnessed a good confession, and have been the chosen vessels of Thy grace and the lights of the world, in their several generations. Grant us grace so to follow them as they followed Christ; and bring us, with them, to those things that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, which Thou hast prepared for those who love Thee;
Toward a Theology of Pastoral Event: Reflections on the Work of Seward Hiltner
Authors: Patton John H.
Published: May 2015

Examines via illustration and discussion the principle characteristics of the pastoral event in terms of its particularity, its personal qualities, and its pastoral meaning. Acknowledges Seward Hiltner's supervisory and methodological concerns as contributing to the beginnings of an authentic understanding of the pastoral event and to the development of an operations centered theology.
Whatever Became of Joy?
Authors: Griffin Graeme M.
Published: May 2015

Observes that much of pastoral care appears preoccupied with obstructions to the fullness of life rather than the possibilities of joy, even though there is a broad biblical base for emphasizing joy. Notes that an emphasis on joy may lead to a greater appreciation of perspectival modes of seeing. Explicates two pastoral issues related to joy: learning together how to be joyful, and experiencing how joy can move persons, including the pastoral care giver, toward the sort of humanity exemplified in Jesus Christ.
Cooperation between Clergy and Family Practice Physicians: A New Area of Ministry
Authors: Weikart Robert
Published: May 2015

Describes an eleven-session experimental program in which family practice physicians and clergy met for mutual instruction and dialogue. Compares experimental and control groups to determine changes in several areas including referral tendencies. Suggests that such a program may contribute to improvements in clergy/physician relationships and in providing patients with a more holistic mode of health care.
Pastoral Counselors: Their Attitudes Toward Gay and Lesbian Clients
Authors: Hochstein Lorna M.
Published: May 2015

Interprets an empirical research project involving 190 pastoral counselors in terms of a set of homosexual and lesbian variables. Notes that pastoral counselors do not rate gay male and lesbian clients as significantly different from heterosexual male and female clients but do manifest significant differences between male and female clients. Observes that pastoral counselors' standards for healthy adult mental health tend to be that of a healthy adult male and that female clients are assessed either as healthy persons but as unhealthy women or as healthy women and as unhealthy persons. Concludes that the sex-role stereotyping revealed in the study discriminates against both men and women. Discusses pastoral implications in view of the research findings.
CPE in a Geriatric Facility: An Excellent Setting for the Basic Unit
Authors: Winjum James M. , Avery William O.
Published: May 2015

Argues that a geriatric facility offers critical and central experiences in the learning of pastoral care and in the formation of pastoral identities, thus providing an excellent setting for a basic Clinical Pastoral Education unit. Supports this perspective in terms of the character of the context and the impact of that character on CPE students, particularly regarding initiative required, the many opportunities offered for reflection, and the challenge of dealing with discouragement and despair.
Reminiscing in the Elderly: Pastoral Care of Self-Narratives
Authors: Randall Robert L.
Published: May 2015

Notes the presence of acts of reminiscing in older individuals and interprets this reality within a self-psychology perspective. Sees the functions of self narrative as (1) providing a continuity of the Self; (2) sustaining a meaning continuity of the Self; and (3) uplifting the Self via hope. Suggests implications for pastoral care in terms of story listening, story stimulating, and story enhancing.
The Guru as Pastoral Counselor
Authors: Williams Raymond B.
Published: May 2015

Presents a series of vignettes illustrating the sort of pastoral counsel given by Pramukh Swami, a contemporary guru of Swaminarayan Hinduism. Notes the roles, process, and goals of this type of religious counseling.
Art as a Tool for Pastoral Care
Authors: Gantz Robin
Published: May 2015

Argues for the use of art in the delivery of pastoral care, especially with small children, the handicapped, and persons with emotional problems. Offers an example of such usage with a hospitalized spastic quadraplegic boy. Explores ways in which one's faith also might be expressed using visual modes rather than verbal ones.
Dialogue 88: It's More Than a Lot of Talk
Authors: Anderson James A.
Published: May 2015

Notes briefly the general purpose and mission of Dialogue 88 and details some of the plans for the ways in which specialized ministry will be addressed when Dialogue 88 takes place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29 thru November 4, 1988.
The Use of Storytelling in the Practice of Pastoral Counseling
Authors: Bohler Carolyn J.
Published: May 2015

Recommends storytelling as a natural and effective mode for pastoral counselors. Comments on hearing well the stories shared, on giving a “twist” to the meaning of stories, and on interrupting, even prohibiting, the telling of some stories. Emphasizes the importance of discernment in selecting the storytelling approach in doing pastoral counseling.
Ethical Reflections on the Differentiation of Self in Marriage
Authors: Waanders David D.
Published: May 2015

Sketches Murray Bowen's theoretical construct of differentiation of self in marital reltionship and relates it to a biblical view of marriage in which two persons become “one flesh.” Develops the biblical notion of covenant and uses it to critique emotionally fused marital relationships and to provide an ethical context for the differentiation of self. Argues for a perspective in which selfhood is formed in community and in which persons find their deepest meanings when individualism is transcended. Claims that a theological and ethical framework provide especially fruitful ways of understanding differentiation of self in marriage. Case material is used to illustrate the theoretical discussion.
The Drg Era: A Major Opportunity for Increased Pastoral Care Impact or a Crisis for Survival?
Authors: McSherry Elisabeth , Nelson William A.
Published: May 2015

Notes how the Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) system, now being utilized by a growing number of hospitals, may provide chaplains with ways of demonstrating their worth as team members in total health care. Claims that pastoral care ought to be a major clinical service in a hospital and that chaplains therefore need to provide objective evidence of their contribution to the well-being of patients, as do other major clinical areas. Suggests specific ways for chaplains to establish such data, including the use of objective measures of the spiritual conditions of patients. Offers examples of accountability procedures and notes that such meticulous chaplain accountability along with follow-up work with patients could lead to expansions of services and new roles in the chaplaincy fields.
Self Advocacy through Participation in the Lord's Supper for Persons who are Conceptually Non-Expressive
Authors: Peters Roger K.
Published: May 2015

Argues for the legitimacy and authenticity of allowing the conceptually non-expressive person to participate in the Lord's Supper. Notes contemporary empirical research on action and interaction types of language and relates it to the issue of the theological nature of communion. Contends that participation in communion by the mentally retarded may actually enhance the full meaning of the sacrament in that it draws attention to the transcendent qualities of the sacrament. Offers a personal experience of giving communion to the mentally retarded to reinforce the psychological, scriptural, and theological rationales for communing all baptized Christians, including those classified as conceptually non-expressive.
Fowler's Faith Stages as a Guide for Ministry to the Mentally Retarded
Authors: Schurter Dennis D.
Published: May 2015

Discusses ways in which James Fowler's faith development theory may contribute to the understanding and to the ministry to the mentally retarded. Notes that Stage 1 of the theory is particularly applicable to working with the severely retarded whereas Stage 2 is generally applicable to people who are moderately and mildly retarded. Offers vignettes to illustrate the central thesis.
Clinical Pastoral Education: Seasons of a Group's Life
Authors: Gibbons Graeme D.
Published: May 2015

Proposes a model of small group processes which may be used as a guide by supervisors conducting programs in Clinical Pastoral Education. Outlines and discusses structures in a group's life—early life, mid-life, late life, and transitional phases—and notes the characteristic behavior of group members in each phase. Proposes ways of leadership functions throughout the life of the small group, illustrating with vignettes.
A Funeral that Never Ends: Alzheimer's Disease and Pastoral Care
Authors: Sligar Sam J.
Published: May 2015

Details the devastating characteristics of Alzheimer's disease and its impact on the individual and his or her family. Notes the difficult tasks of those who wish to minister to Alzheimer sufferers, and provides guidance for pastoral care and counseling persons who may respond to this area of service.
Descended into Hell: Consultation on the Vietnam Experience
Authors: Denton Donald D.
Published: May 2015

Outlines a group process designed to bring reconciliation between veterans of the Vietnam War and those who protested the war. Notes materials from brain research as well as scriptural wisdom as theoretical bases for the empirical program.
The past and Pathology
Authors: Ashbrook James B.
Published: May 2015

Explores the meaning of the dimension of psychic depth and how it is linked to the past. Details a case in which a client goes back to her past ( via a dream) in a depthful way in order to re-own her past. Points out how in dream imagery polarities may be drawn together in a form which can lead to the connecting of present and past for the purpose of renewal.
Pastoral Ministry in a Fractured World
Authors: Patton John
Published: May 2015

Identifies the many contemporary forces characteristic of a fractured world and interprets them by using scripture—especially Psalm 137—and a verbatim presented by a student chaplain. Explores the meaning of the term “pastoral.” Claims that even in the midst of a fractured world, it is possible to express genuine care, particularly through relationships and in the sharing of stories.
Overcoming the Peter Pan Syndrome: Grieving in Psychotherapy
Authors: Groh Lucille Sider , Lane Bethann
Published: May 2015

Defines the Peter Pan Syndrome as the sorrow that is at the root of clients' entrapment in childhood wishes. Claims that this syndrome is overcome by uncovering and working through the sorrow. Notes that as the sorrow decreases, clients—unlike Peter Pan—begin to enter the full responsibilities of adult work and love and become good-enough nourishers and providers to themselves.
The Trivial Nature of Clinical Pastoral Education
Authors: Duncombe David C.
Published: May 2015

Links the educational assumptions of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) with those of the medieval trivium and suggests that ministerial training requires a similar emphasis on the quadrivium. Identifies supervision as a critical issue for quadrivial teaching in CPE and describes a variety of supervisory methods used in a pilot CPE program in campus ministry.
Schizophrenia Demythologized—The Complexes Personified
Authors: Allanach Robert C.
Published: May 2015

Notes the relative loss of interest in individual psychotherapy of schizophrenia in recent years and how that loss is now being replaced with a more careful reassessment of the value of individual psychotherapy. Misunderstanding of schizophrenia has created a chasm between the practitioner and the counselee. Often left to psychiatric domain, pastoral psychotherapists traditionally have been reluctant to treat the schizophrenic. Explores the history of schizophrenia and the debate between psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Presents some views on process and personal characteristics which are important in the ministry of healing the brokenness experienced by the schizophrenically inflicted counselee. Offers a case illustration followed by a clinical and theological discussion.
Faith and Self-Esteem
Authors: Saussy Carroll
Published: May 2015

Suggests that the origin of self-esteem is in the degree of parental acceptance and love which in turn is a reflection and mediation of the love of Goddess for each person. Claims that above and beyond the self-esteem measures which are rooted in parental, social, and personal realities is the more powerful experience of being accepted and cherished by a Goddess who offers unconditional love at every moment of one's existence.
The Pastoral Counselor as Ethicist: What Difference do we Make
Authors: Browning Don S.
Published: May 2015

Uses as a modern parable the notes of a feminist psychotherapist to demonstrate how the therapy reveals ethical and moral principles. Suggests that the therapeutic materials contain many premoral perspectives such as the goodness of emotions, the centrality of personhood, the value of personal assertiveness, and the place of self-sacrifice in growth and development. Draws particularly on the contemporary works of Robert Kegan to show how it is possible for psychotherapy to be seen as simultaneously a psychodynamic and a moral process.
Ethical and Therapeutic Reflections on a Survivor of the Seige at khe Sanh
Authors: Denton Donald D.
Published: May 2015

Focuses on the ethical and therapeutic considerations inherent in working with a survivor of the seige at Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. Applies theocentric ethics delineated by James Gustafson. Draws parallels between the normal drive toward self-sacrifice during time of war and the corresponding drive toward suicide in a combatant who is a sole survivor. Concludes with suggestions for psychotherapy along ethical and interpersonal avenues.
The Helping Style Inventory: A Tool in Supervised Pastoral Education
Authors: Vankatwyk Peter L.
Published: May 2015

Presents an overview of a variety of helping styles in pastoral care and counseling from an inclusive and affirmative perspective. Describes The Helping Style Inventory as well as demonstrating it through diagrams, and notes its potential as a Supervised Pastoral Education (SPE) and Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) supervision tool.
Families in Process
Authors: Hopkins Paul E.
Published: May 2015

Claims that process philosophy, particularly as explicated by Alfred North Whitehead, provides a valuable metaphysical framework for understanding and working with families. Describes Whitehead's basic metaphysical perspective and applies it to the issues of continuing marriage versus divorcing; and holds that the psychotherapist's own orientation and values are important factors in clinical work with couples facing such decisions.
The Place and Power of Acceptance in Pastoral Care with Persons who are Mentally Retarded
Authors: Webb-Mitchell Brett
Published: May 2015

Reflects theologically and pastorally on the difficulties the retarded person encounters in his or her dealings with the world. Stresses the importance of viewing the person who is mentally retarded as a person in need of acceptance, the same as all persons. Offers a scriptural foundation for viewing such persons in a theological context in which the emphases are on God's creation and grace. Provides general guidelines on how best the Christian community may accept persons who are retarded, particularly in terms of the power of the rite of baptism.
Issues in the Psychotherapy of Child Molesters
Authors: Poling James N.
Published: May 2015

Posits that the successful treatment of child molesters is dependent upon an adequate theory of the internal object world of adults who were severely abused or deprived as children. Suggests theoretical and therapeutic insights from the author's work with child molesters and demonstrates through clinical materials the importance of supervision in working with such clients.
Joint Jewish-Christian Worship: A Concern for Clinical Pastoral Education
Authors: Silberman Jeffery M.
Published: May 2015

Lists twelve sensitive issues to be considered relative to Jewish-Christian worship when made part of the Clinical Pastoral Education experience. Concludes that a definitive solution for joint Jewish-Christian worship is neither possible nor necessary and that the real learning value rests in students becoming aware of different religious heritages.
Counseling's Spiritual Dimension: Nine Guiding Principles
Authors: Hart Thomas
Published: May 2015

Records and reflects on how one theologian/pastoral counselor relates his theology and his psychotherapeutic approach. Offers nine guiding principles which express a vision of how the spiritual dimension is present in a person's life and how good therapy and good theology converge in moving toward the goals of healing, growth, and liberation.
Stress Management and Contemplative Spirituality
Authors: Musholt Daniel Martin
Published: May 2015

Reports on how small groups may assist seminary students in combining techniques of stress management with contemplative spirituality. Claims that the participants of such groups often return to their daily lives with a renewed sense of joy and confidence.
After the Diagnosis: An Operational Theology for the Terminally Ill
Authors: Anderson Hebert
Published: May 2015

Concludes from clinical vignettes that seriously ill persons utilize images drawn from personal, idiosyncratic operational theologies as much as they do from official religious teachings. Illustrates this thesis by analyzing societal images of death and by exploring notions of waiting activities, remembering gratefully, hoping realistically, and trusting courageously.
Gender Anxiety
Authors: Downing Christine
Published: May 2015

Discusses how contemporary times may be characterized by confusions in sexual roles and that such confusions may lead to inner tension, fear, hostility, and isolation. Explores the nuances of modern gender anxiety and how many men and women turn to same-sex bonding in the face of the dilemmas. Concludes that the central issue is the acceptance of one's particularity and finitude and the reality of otherness.
Room at the Table: A Pastoral Care Response to Hunger
Authors: Gross Jo
Published: May 2015

Details the development of an ecumenical lay ministry which invites the poor and defeated to eat in community. Notes how feeding the hungry is an example of ministry in a specialized setting and provides a theological rationale for such an expression of pastoral care.
The Assessment and Treatment of the Religiously Concerned Psychiatric Patient
Authors: Eimer Kenneth W.
Published: May 2015

Proposes that religious assessment and treatment are at the heart of psychiatric pastoral care. Illustrates the key role of the chaplain as clinician. Outlines a method of assessment and presents a case example of religious treatment.
The Changing face of Marriage and Extramarital Relationships
Authors: Sandholm Gayle L.
Published: May 2015

Examines the purpose of marriage in North America, once understood in the context of institution, now understood as companionship. Asserts that married partners now value “extra” relationships when they exclude sexual involvement. Cites research findings which document significant rates of extramarital sexual involvement. Explores the conflict between attitudes disapproving extramarital sexual relationships and actions involving extramarital sexual relationships. Discusses current research and theory about extramarital relationships and the necessity for reviewing commitments in the context of this change and conflict. Suggests a framework for pastoral counselors with particular attention to issues of commitment.
Living and Dying with AIDS
Authors: Goss Elizabeth
Published: May 2015

Describes how caregivers may work with AIDS patients to assist them in their attempts to remain in control of their deaths. Reports, using actual case materials, how being authentically present in the dying and death struggles may assist AIDS patients and their extended families. Notes the importance of the caregiver coming to grips with his or her own mortality, and claims that this ministry is a clear example of God's acceptance as mediated through human hands and hearts.
Caring for People Living and Dying with AIDS
Authors: Sunderland Ronald H.
Published: May 2015

Proposes that the religious congregation ought to be the locus of pastoral ministry to AIDS clients and patients. Outlines the structure of interfaith AIDS care teams and how they can provide social, emotional, physical, and spiritual support to persons living and dying with AIDS. Sketches ways in which clinical pastoral educators can use their knowledge and skills in working with the many issues generated by the problems of AIDS, and suggests the need for additional and imaginative approaches in order to meet the challenges of this new and difficult pandemic.
A Biblical Paradigm for Selfhood
Authors: Schmidt William S.
Published: May 2015

Presents a biblical foundation for theological notions regarding the life of human selfhood and the life of God. Traces the evolution of the God-Self relation, demonstrates how the biblical self is a dynamic process, and notes ways in which the Fall is a paradigm of divided selfhood. Depicts flesh as a factor of finiteness, spirit as a factor of freedom, the Law as a “negative third,” and Christ as the “positive third.” Proposes that Christ as the new unifying third carries for the self the reconciling Spirit of God which eternally unifies all that is broken.
An Image of Contemporary Hospital Chaplaincy
Authors: Gibbons James L. , Miller Sherry L.
Published: May 2015

Claims that modern hospitals are settings for human change and for religious ministry. Uses a pastoral care event in a Special Care Nursery to demonstrate the aspects of preparation, intervention, case development, crisis, and resolution. Details eleven salient features of the hospital chaplain in the modern hospital.
The Complex Clarity of Pastoral Therapy: The Perspective of A Pioneer
Authors: Ashbrook James B.
Published: May 2015

Describes personal assumptions and perspectives, significance of knowing how the brain works, and the importance of developing a multilinguistic expertise. Reflects on the development of these characteristics as formed by being both parish pastor and pastoral therapist.
Empathy as the Essence of Pastoral Psychotherapy
Authors: Schlauch Chris R.
Published: May 2015

Provides a description and a reinterpretation of the concept of empathy as originally explicated by the psychoanalyist, Heinz Kohut; and argues that empathy might well be considered as the essence of pastoral psychotherapy. Notes the qualities of the empathic response from the perspectives of psychology, ethics, and theology.
Counseling Hispanics in the United States
Authors: Acosta Sam , Hernandez Gustavo , Groh Lucille S. , Rathbone Barbara
Published: May 2015

Describes four Hispanic groups, along with their common values and characteristics. Notes the roles of family, religion, and personality in the lives of Hispanic men and women. Identifies the typical precipitating events which lead Hispanics into counseling and indicates why knowledge of Hispanic culture and languages are necessary requirements for those who wish to contribute to the health and welfare of one of America's largest minority groups.
Crises of Belief: An Object Relations Perspective
Authors: Howe Leroy T.
Published: May 2015

Draws on the writings of Paul W. Pruyser, Ana-Maria Rizzuto, and Paul C. Horton to argue that among the many “objects” of need and drive satisfaction are beliefs, and that, as such, beliefs suffer the fates of all things in experience which are both loved and hated. Shows, both through an abstract typology and examples, how beliefs may become problematic in a person's development. Claims that an object relations pespective can serve well the appreciation of the profundity of authority figures in the religious life and the difficulties of attaining a faith which is truly one's own.
The Sacrifice of Innocence: Notes on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Authors: Speed Sarah F.
Published: May 2015

Introduces the problem of Munchausen syndrome by proxy in a hospital setting. Discusses the syndrome in terms of family systems theory and the issue of entitlement. Interprets the syndrome theologically in terms of sacrifice and mediation.
The Therapist and the Concept of Revenge: The Law of Talion
Authors: Durham Mary Sherrill
Published: May 2015

Discusses the complexity and depthful nature of revenge and forgiveness and how they may be recognized and understood in religious and clinical contexts. Notes how both psychotherapists and pastoral counselors need to deal with the dynamics of revenge and forgiveness although their approaches may differ given the realities of transference and countertransference phenomena.
Intimate Strangers: The Role of the Hospital Chaplain in Situations of Sudden Traumatic Loss
Authors: Dykstra Robert C.
Published: May 2015

Discusses the role of the hospital chaplain in situations of sudden traumatic loss making extensive use of the metaphore of the Stranger. Explicates biblical, theological, historical, and psychological perspectives on the metaphore as it appears within the Judeo-Christian tradition and critically relates this to much current crisis literature. Notes how hospital traumas demonstrate to the chaplain how God's presence may be witnessed in the strange and in ways not always placid or traditional.

An eighteen-year-old high school senior, whose mother was a cancer patient only days away from death in a distant urban hospital, was at home alone with his father when the father began complaining of chest pains. He asked his son to drive him to the local emergency hospital, about twenty minutes away. The young man wisely refused, instead insisting on calling an ambulance. En route to the hospital, the father suffered a severe heart attack. When the ambulance arrived at the emergency room, the father, only hours before a vigorous and robust man, now was teetering critically on the edge of life and death. As a chaplain in the hospital, I was called by a nurse to wait with the son. I found him with tears streaming down his face, his hands visibly shaking. While he had begun to prepare himself for his mother's pending death, the sudden possibility of at once losing both parents terrified and overwhelmed him. The young man's only sister—a college student—lived in a city hours away, as did any of the nearest relatives of the family. He could think of no family friends who could be asked to support him there. His parish priest was out of town. The tension-filled five or six hours we waited together for relatives to arrive, during which the father experienced two more heart attacks, were among the most agonizing moments I have had in ministry.
Hospice Legal Services: Spiritual and Counseling Dimensions
Authors: Johnson Herbert A.
Published: May 2015

Explicates the various components of hospice legal services and draws attention to their possible spiritual dimensions. Notes particularly pastoral care implications of the many legal matters associated with the hospice patient.
Should Clergy Counsel Suicidal Persons?
Authors: Sullender R. Scott , Malony H. Newton
Published: May 2015

Discusses the issues involved in the pastoral counseling of suicidal persons in light of the Nally vs. Grace Community Church case, with which the authors are well acquainted and in which they were actually involved at various stages. Asserts that clergy have an indispensable and crucial role to play in the wholistic treatment of persons suffering from clinical depression which may lead to suicide-threatening hehavior. Alerts clergy to factors of competency, training, supervision, and litigation as essential and necessary factors to consider in working with suicidal persons.
Stresses in Families with Disabled Children
Authors: Ikeler Bernard
Published: May 2015

Examines some of the stresses in families with disabled children and offers specific suggestions as to how such stress may be reduced through pastoral and congregational care. Illustrates the thesis via personal experience and literary illustrations and expressions.
Child Abuse Reporting Requirements: Liabilities and Immunities for Clergy
Authors: Bullis Ronald K.
Published: May 2015

Alerts clergy and pastoral counselors to the role of child abuse reporting requirements in their pastoral care and counseling ministries. Outlines the rationale for child abuse reporting statutes, noting particularly the “spiritual healing exception”; and explains how penalities can be imposed for those who fail to comply with statutes.
Experiencing the Presence of God during Times of Need: A Case Study
Authors: Marston Robert D.
Published: May 2015

Reports on an interview survey of a group of Christians and a group of atheists/agnostics in an attempt to identify differences in perceptions of crisis situations. Concludes that Christians tend to ascribe a divine presence during times of need whereas the atheist/agnostic group attribute deliverance to luck or their own skillfullness. Interprets the findings from phenomenological, psychological, and theological perspectives; and suggests that the instrument used in the survey might be utilized in pastoral care practice.
The Making of a Dictionary: A Case Study in Pastoral Care and Counseling Literature
Authors: Hunter Rodney J.
Published: May 2015

Tells the story of how the newly published Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling came to be—its origins, principles, and editorial adventures—as a case study toward understanding the contemporary field of pastoral care and counseling in America.
The Notion of an Operational Theology: A Response to Herbert Anderson
Authors: Ritter Hal
Published: May 2015

When the Summer 1989 issue of The Journal of Pastoral Care arrived, an article by Herbert Anderson caught my eye (“After the Diagnosis: An Operational Theology for the Terminally Ill”). After reading the piece, struggling with it, finding that much of it was on target with my own experiences, I decided to write my response to it. Thus this article.
So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: The Use of Family Systems Process in Forming Pastoral Identity and Facilitating Pastoral Functioning
Authors: Burton Anne L. , Weinrich Charles A.
Published: May 2015

Describes the use of genograms in units of Clinical Pastoral Education. Provides the reader with a theoretical base for viewing experiences in CPE as manifestations of family of origin factors. Reflects on how such connections can enrich recognitions of the power of transference in relationships and thus provide the caregiver with greater insight into how he or she may express ministry and caregiving activities.
Withholding Nutrition and Hydration: Some Old and new Questions
Authors: Holst Lawrence E.
Published: May 2015

Discusses the question, Are a patient's best interests ever served by the removal of artificial nutrition and hydration supports? Poses ethical and theological questions generated by the case of Nancy Cruzan and offers an outline of necessary conditions which ought to be present to make the withholding of artificially induced nutrition and hydration morally licit.
The Sharing of Cultural Variation
Authors: Karaban Roslyn A.
Published: May 2015

Explicates and illustrates the meanings of the terms interpathy, dialogue, and action as they form in the sharing of cultural variation and as they hold potential for the doing of authentic cross-cultural counseling.
Re-Creating Family of Origin Relationships in work Relationships
Authors: Nuechterlein Anne Marie
Published: May 2015

Reports on qualitative research designed to answer the following questions: “What is the nature of the collegial relationship of parish clergy in multiple staff work settings?” and “What is the relationship of birth order and family of origin to multiple staff relationships?” Analyzes and interprets the data in relation to birth order, closeness and distance, conflict styles, ethnicity and team relationships. Concludes that clergy and pastoral counselors can benefit both personally and professionally from developing greater awareness and knowledge regarding the variables identified in the research.
Determinants of Employment Satisfaction for Pastoral Counselors
Authors: Hill E. Wayne , Baillie Sheila , Walters Connor M.
Published: May 2015

Explores various factors which serve as determinants of employment satisfactions for pastoral counselors, using a stratified random sample of 143 pastoral counselors. Concludes from the data that for pastoral counselors personal well-being at work, work enviornment, spiritual well-being, and job stress are significant predictors of employment satisfaction. Discusses the implications of the empirical findings for pastoral counselors as well as for employers and administrators of pastoral counseling centers.
Let There Be Life: An Approach to Worship with Alzheimer's Patients and Their Families
Authors: Clayton Jean
Published: May 2015

Describes a novel approach to providing a meaningful worship service for Alzheimer's patients in which greater stress is placed upon familiar scripture, music, prayers, and other right-brain functions, rather than on sermon or homily.
Prolegomena to A Pastoral Theology
Authors: Jernigan Homer L.
Published: May 2015

Identifies pastoral identity, as expressed in the realities of actual pastoral relationships, as the basic concern for the development of a theological framework which can help pastors understand, develop, and evaluate caring relationships which communicate God's care for persons and the world. Defines the ministry of caring relationships as including the individual Christian and the Christian community, as well as the ordained pastor. Presents a view of pastoral identity and pastoral relationships which suggests both a theoretical and methodological basis for the development of a pastoral theology. Describes an actual case which illustrates the theoretical and methodological stances of the model of pastoral theology proposed by the author.