The Hospital Chaplain's Handbook: A Guide for Good Practice
'There is something uplifting in this book for anyone who works with the sick, be they a nurse, doctor, chaplain, counsellor, or remedial therapist.' -- Iain Frew "This is an important and impressive book, just the thing for those involved in healthcare chaplaincy, and for clergy who visit their people in hospital. It offers vital tools for the job, celebrates good practice in a user-friendly way and helps us all give spiritual care that is patient-centred and helpful to their flourishing. (...) Ministry across the life-course including support for dying and bereaved people is covered impressively. As a hospice chaplain and former hospice nurse too, I like to see how people tackle this area so this is praise indeed! Multifaith issues are given a rightful mention -with Cobb, I feel difference and diversity are to be celebrated as they enrich any community. (...) Go out and buy it now and put its words into flesh in your daily work and encounters." -- Fr Paul Greenwell ssc New Directions 20060401 "This handbook is a much needed resource that engages with the health service as it is now and provides information that will be useful not only to hospital Chaplains but all those engaged with Chaplaincy within the health service, as well as those who are involved with hospital Chaplaincy from the community and different faith groups. Here at last is a book which sets the ground rules across the spectrum of hospital Chaplaincy. It is much more than a handbook, more of a practical guide that will affirm many Chaplains and give guidance and insight to others." -- Revd Anna Garvie "This slim book exudes the essence of accumulated practice, procedures and principles appropriate to hospital chaplaincy, a field which has never before been under such scrutiny and subject to such change. (...)It should be required reading for anyone contemplating or practising in healthcare chaplaincy." -- David Parkes Epworth Review