Pastoral care emergencies : ministering to people in crisis

內容簡介

Foreword -- Introduction: What is a pastoral emergency? -- Chapter 1: What does it mean to say that we care? -- Chapter 2: The carer and the caring: Who are we and how do we go about it? -- Chapter 3: Responding to persons' needs in situational crises -- Chapter 4: Visiting the physically ill -- Chapter 5: Hospital emergencies -- Chapter 6: Ministry to the dying -- Chapter 7: Pastoral response to bereavement -- Chapter 8: Responding to suicidal persons and their families -- Chapter 9: Marriage and family life: Family systems, counseling, divorce -- Chapter 10: Marriage and family emergencies: Family, violence, homosexuality, psychiatric emergencies, alcoholism -- Chapter 11: When and how to refer -- Epilogue