| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Contents |
Pastoral care today : widening the horizons / Kevin Egan -- Navigating the landscape of exile : pastoral care and asylum seekers / Benny McCabe -- Cults, sects and mental health / John Butler -- Cyberbullying among adolescent girls : issues and responses / James O'Higgins-Norman and Debbie Ging -- Just care : Paul Ricoeur's contribution to journeys of forgiveness and reconciliation / Maria Duffy -- Male violence against women and the pastoral response of Jesus / Michael O'Sullivan -- Nurturing families : challenges for family ministry / Annemie Dillen -- Pastoral care as 'translator' and 'interpreter' in healthcare ethics / David Smith -- Trends and themes in pastoral care and theology : North American perspectives / Sharon G. Thornton and Brita L. Gill-Austern -- Coming home is hell : moral injury after war / Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini -- Mental health ministry in the congregation and the community / Craig Rennebohm -- Pastoral care of the ageing / Herbert Anderson -- Who am I? : Nepantla, mestizo and amphiboulous : care across cultures / Julia D.E. Prinz -- Pastoral care and assisted reproductive technologies / Karen Lebacqz -- Pastor in the aftermath / Susan Suchocki Brown -- A forgiving enhancement model of racial healing / Andrew Sung Park |
| Summary |
The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care provides a framework for reflection on pastoral care practice and identifies frontier learning from the new and challenging practical contexts which are important in pastoral care research today. In this collection of essays from leading practitioner-scholars, Bernadette Flanagan and Sharon Thornton set out core principles underpinning professional identity and the practice of pastoral care in rapidly changing social settings. Such pastoral challenges as, developing compassionate and effective companioning to those who have suffered traum |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pastoral care.
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Pastoral theology.
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Church work.
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Church group work.
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RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Pastoral Resources.
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Church work
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Church group work
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Pastoral care
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Pastoral theology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Flanagan, Bernadette.
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Thornton, Sharon G.
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| ISBN |
9781441182265 |
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1441182268 |
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