Counseling Troubled Older Adults is designed as a pastoral care textbook for use in theological seminaries and by ministers engaged in pastoral ministry with older persons. By providing this handbook for pastors and other religious caregivers, Koenig and Weaver provide a resource that will help improve the clinical skills of caregivers in working with older persons with symptoms of mental illnesses. It will inform clergy of the most recent research on how older people draw upon their faith to cope with crises. Contents: *The role of clergy in geriatric mental health * Case Studies: -depression -anxiety - Alzheimer's disease - major psychoses/schizophrenia - alcohol/drug/prescription abuse &amp; dependence -Other disorders including somatization disorder, insomnia, sexual dysfuntion, elder abuse, etc. Helpful aids in the back include an index, glossary, and a list of agencies to contact for further information.

Counseling Troubled Older Adults: A Handbook for Pastors and Religious Caregivers

Weaver, Andrew J.

Koenig,Harold G.

Religion & Spirituality

ABINGDON PRESS *

What do you do when the call comes from a distraught parishioner who needs help in dealing with a murder, rape, traffic accident, miscarriage, or the effects of a natural disaster or war? How can students of pastoral care and counseling learn in a seminary setting how to think about and counsel in those situations? An extraordinary number of survivors of such catastrophic events turn to clergy for help to deal with their stress. The effects of such massive stress are typically known as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Knowing how to recognize PTSD and how to handle such crisis situations is critical for caregivers. Weaver, Preston, and Flannelly use case studies to show how to handle such tough situations. Treatment options, referral possibilities and procedures are explained so that the caregiver knows how to help those in their care cope with catastrophic emotional distress. The authors suggest religious resources within the faith (mainly Christian and Jewish) community that can be of help in crisis situations. The authors also list national, cross-cultural, and self-help resources (including street and internet addresses as well as phone information) which many caregivers and family members may prefer to access. This book is intended primarily as a teaching/caring resource and pastoral aid to be studied over time; however, the authors include a quick reference section for emergency aid.

Counseling Survivors of Traumatic Events: A Handbook for Pastors and Other Helping Professionals

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Preston, John D.

Mental Health

Teenagers and their families live in a society with epidemic levels of social problems that put adolescents at risk for emotional problems. Teens have special mental and emotional issues that need to be addressed by pastors and their colleagues in ministry. For this reason, clergy and caregivers need to know about the most common mental disorders that occur in adolescents, including how to assess and diagnose the disorders, what types of treatment can be initiated in the faith community, when referral is required, and to whom to make a referral. This book identifies twenty-two of the most common mental health conditions that occur among adolescents, provides illustrative cases, lists national resources available to help, and suggests when and from whom to seek additional professional help. There is an emphasis on self-help resources available on the Internet, a major source of information for teens. The conditions addressed include: various types of addiction and abuse; family crises such as pregnancy, runaways, divorce, depression, and bereavement; and other disorders such as eating disorders, ADA, schizophrenia, and learning disabilities.

Counseling Troubled Teens & Their Families: A Handbook for Pastors and Youth Workers

Consists of a series of reflections by experienced voices in the Christian community on forgiveness as part of the faith journey. The writers grapple with questions such as: What lessons and wisdom can you share about the personal struggle to forgive? Does forgiveness mean you forget? What is the relationship between forgiving and reconciling? Does forgiveness end resentment? How has forgiving led to deeper faith? What spiritual directions might you offer to others on the journey of faith who are struggling with forgiveness? Includes a Study Guide. Some of the contributors include: William J. Abraham, Paschal Baumstein, Roberta C. Bondi, Michael Collins, Joseph W. Coyne, Eric James, M. Basil Pennington, Donald J. Shelby, Ronald E. Swisher, James M. Wall, Brendan Walsh, Halbert Weidner, and William H. Willimon.

Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

Like the two previous projects Weaver has brought to Abingdon Press, this is a case-study book which will be used both as a resource for clergy and other pastoral workers and for those in training in those fields. The cases will translate technical material into real-life situations while highlighting practical implications for pastors. The authors provide readers with treatment options, referral procedures within the context of the religious community and beyond, and additional national, self-help, and cross-cultural resources, emphasizing those available on the internet.

Counseling Families Across the Stages of Life: A Handbook for Pastors and Other Helping Professionals

Revilla, Linda A.

A study guide is included to help couples discuss the questions these couples responded to in their writing: How has marriage led to a deeper and enriched faith? How has Christianity been important at different stages in your marriage? What type of spiritual support have Christian faith and community offered during difficult times in your married life? How are marriage and faith related? What counsel does our Christian heritage offer to married couples? How has faith affected marital intimacy, acceptance, and mutual respect? Also available in: Adobe Ebook 9780687000968 Microsoft Ebook 9780687001743

Reflections on Marriage and Spiritual Growth

Stapleton, Carolyn

Noted, experienced voices in the Christian community come together in this volume to reflect on aging as part of their faith journey. One by one, they offer lessons and wisdom about the changes, challenges, and advantages of aging. To read this book is to sit with these men and women on retreat, discovering the fulfillment of life, its purpose and meaning. Together, you will reflect on questions such as these: How have your losses deepened or diminished your faith? How do you affirm aging as a person of faith in a society perpetually fascinated with the young and the new? What spiritual direction might you offer to others on the journey of faith--young and old? What counsel does our Christian heritage offer as we live in or approach our later years?

Reflections on Aging and Spiritual Growth

The Christ Chaplain: The Way to a Deeper, More Effective Hospital Ministry

Use centering prayer to deal with the demands of hospital ministry The Christ Chaplain: The Way to a Deeper, More Effective Hospital Ministry is an instructive guidebook for health care chaplains who struggle with the high levels of stress that have become commonplace in modern medicine as they work longer hours for lower wages yet get to spend less time with patients. The final book from Father M. Basil (Robert) Pennington, who passed away in 2005, cuts to the real heart of the matter—job burnout—by emphasizing not what a chaplain does, but what a chaplain is. This unique book teaches chaplains how to achieve better spiritual health by practicing spiritual self-care through centering prayer. The Christ Chaplain was written for hospital chaplains who find themselves at the limits of what they can do and what they can endure in living out their calling. Father Pennington ministers to the ministers, helping them to deepen their spiritual lives so they can better provide comfort to the sick and the dying. The book guides hospital chaplains through the Christian mystical tradition via lectio and centering prayer, a method of contemplative prayer rooted in silence that encourages a person to pay attention to God dwelling in the center of his or her being. Topics discussed in The Christ Chaplain include:  the sacred text  lectio divina  the third step  life as a school of love  the ministry of presence  the power of sacrament  sharing the word  resting in the presence  and much more The Christ Chaplain also includes appendixes that offer sacred reading, a prayer for the hospital, and suggested readings. This powerful book is an invaluable, how-to guide to better spiritual health for hospital chaplains and other religious personnel, including those working in pastoral care departments of seminaries.

Routledge

Grief, Loss, and Death

Learn to balance the professional demands of your ministry with your personal needsNo amount of research, study, or planning can prepare pastoral care givers for the stress placed on their personal lives by the demands of their ministries. But Grief, Loss, and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry can help anyone involved in pastoral counseling close the gap between their professional and personal needs, encouraging them to use the stress, loss, and grief that accompanies pastoral care giving as opportunities to humanize their ministries and reaffirm their faith. This unique book offers comfort and solace to those in the chaplaincy who are torn between professional obligations and the limits and boundaries of the shadow side of their ministrythe human side. The shadow side of ministry shoots a bullet through the brain that does not kill or prevent thinking or feeling. But the bullet creates a hole, a long, hollow, empty wound that thinking and feeling must somehow bypass. The wounded minister does not recover the previous self, cannot remember what the old self thought or felt. Like a veteran of a secret war, there may be a new life after the shameful wound, but no public way to heal. But there is a public way of speaking about it and this may help relieve some of the shame and some of the self-blaming.Author Halbert WeidnerGrief, Loss, and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry can help in your search for the answers to questions you may have already found yourself asking, including: Do I prefer co-workers or friends? How did I lose focus of my original goals? How did I become isolated? How can I share authority without giving up responsibility? How do I cope when family issues arise?The book also addresses issues of illness, death and suicide, funerals, the confrontation between joy and sorrow, and how life’s stages are often like the Stations of the Cross. Grief, Loss, and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry is help against despair. Newcomers to the profession can use the book as a guide to the difficulties that lie ahead, and experienced pastoral care givers can employ it as a catalogue to be consulted when all hope seems lost.

Grief, Loss, and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry

Weidner, Halbert

Parenting & Relationships

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Counseling Troubled Older Adults: A Handbook for Pastors and Religious Caregivers

Counseling Survivors of Traumatic Events: A Handbook for Pastors and Other Helping Professionals

Counseling Troubled Teens & Their Families: A Handbook for Pastors and Youth Workers

Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth

Counseling Families Across the Stages of Life: A Handbook for Pastors and Other Helping Professionals

Reflections on Marriage and Spiritual Growth

Reflections on Aging and Spiritual Growth

The Christ Chaplain: The Way to a Deeper, More Effective Hospital Ministry

The Christ Chaplain: The Way to a Deeper, More Effective Hospital Ministry

Grief, Loss, and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry