Surviving Trauma to the Soul . The Haworth Pastoral Press, 1998. The experience of crisis is internal and subjective, though its referents are frequently external and objective. To greater or lesser degree, a crisis situation calls into question our previous expectations about how our lives will work out. Crisis situations raise urgent questions of meaning.
All caregivers are familiar with working with persons in crisis.
Scores of books and perhaps hundreds of journal articles suggest approaches to such care. Not a few of these resources approach the subject from the perspective of soul care. LeBron McBride offers Spiritual Crisis as a resource for caregivers, for persons experiencing crisis, and for the family and friends of persons in crisis. McBride characterizes his work as introductory and brief, and I agree with him, for the most part. In a mere 182 pages, McBride offers perspectives on object relations theory, self-psychology, codependency, chemical dependency, psychoanalytic theory, systems theory, faith development, cognitive and behavioral theory, transactional analysis, thanatology, social learning theory, existentialism, pastoral assessment, field theory, and narrative theology.