The practice of pastoral care
Subtitle: a postmodern approach
By: Carrie Doehring
Edition: Revised and expanded edition.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Louisville, Kentucky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780664238407
Subjects: Pastoral care; Exegese; Pastoral counseling; Bibel; Seelsorge; Pastoral Care
Description: The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establishing the actual relationship. This new edition elaborates on and expands the author's previous work, adding an intercultural perspective that gives more attention to religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. It offers a road map for using a step-by-step narrative, relational, embodied approach to spiritual care that respects the unique ways people live out their values and beliefs, especially in coping with stress, loss, and violence. Readers will be able to confidently and professionally offer pastoral care and counseling to members of their congregations or other places of ministry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Intercultural care : trust and theological accountability; title: Basic ingredients of caregiving relationships; title: Embodied listening; title: Establishing a caregiving relationship; title: Theological themes and reflexivity; title: Narrative themes of loss, violence, and coping; title: Systematic assessment; title: Planning care : liberative spiritual integration.