Description
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 trauma, torture, catastrophic events, social disintegration, the moral wounds of war and cultural dislocation are treated with insight and deep care. The new frontiers of pastoral care in more familiar circumstances such as family, health settings where patients facing life-challenging medical events and multi-cultural communities are also explored.
With contributions from Kevin Egan, Michael O’Sullivan SJ, Rita Nakashima Brock and Julia Prinz VDMF, The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care is an essential reference for the theory and practice of pastoral care.
Table of Contents
Part 1: European Trends and Themes
1. Pastoral Care Today: Widening the Horizons, Kevin Egan
2. Navigating the Landscape of Exile: Pastoral Care and Asylum Seekers, Benny McCade3. Cults, Sects and Mental Health, John Butler4. Cyberbullying among Adolescent Girls: Issues and Responses, James O’Higgens5. Just Care: Paul Ricoeur’s Contribution to Journeys of Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Maria Duffy6. Male Violence Against Women and the Pastoral Response of Jesus, Michael O’Sullivan SJ7. Nurturing Families: Challenges for Family Ministry, Annemie Dillen8. Pastoral Care as ‘Translator’ and ‘Interpreter’ in Healthcare Ethics, David SmithPart 2: North American Trends and Themes9. Trends and Themes in Pastoral Care and Theology: North American Perspectives, Sharon G. Thornton and Brita L. Gill-Austern10. Coming Home is Hell: Moral Injury After War, Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini11. Mental Health Ministry in the Congregation and the Community, Craig Rennebolm12. Pastoral Care of the Ageing, Herbert Anderson13. Who Am I? Nepantla, Mestizo and Amphibolous: Care Across Cultures, Julia D. E. Prinz14. Pastoral Care and Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Karen Lebacqz15 Pastor in the Aftermath, Susan Suchocki Brown16 A Forgiving Enhancement Model of Racial Healing, Andrew Sung ParkNotes on ContributorsIndex
