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Call the Chaplain

Pastoral Care in Hospitals

by Kate McClelland

  • Paperback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: Canterbury Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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Hospital-based pastoral care is a privileged yet complex area of ministry. It involves spiritual journeying to the heights and depths of human experience, often in brief and transient pastoral encounters. Illness and fear lay bare life's realities and there is often need for reconciliation as well as healing. Chaplains, visiting clergy and the growing number of lay volunteers need to be able to interpret pained silences or body language - and often in a matter of minutes. This warm-hearted and practical handbook explores the pastoral sensitivities surrounding patient encounters and the challenges of current socio-political pressures. Through stories and examples it explores key biblical themes of love, loss, hope, grace and forgiveness, and worldly themes of dignity, discrimination, identity and choice. It explores the essential skills needed for this kind of ministry: the importance of ritual, difficult pastoral tasks, deflecting anger, caring for the carers, working in multi-faith contexts and more. It also provides a useful section of prayers, readings and other resources for a wide range of pastoral needs.
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  • Author

    Kate McClelland

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Canterbury Press

  • Published

    April 2014

  • Weight

    196g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781848256361

  • ISBN-10

    1848256361

  • Eden Code

    4278204

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    Gaynor Bracey

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    This book is sensitively written with both heart rending stories but practical advice on how to approach different situations that you meet as a hospital chaplain, whether employed or volunteer. Most helpful at the end of the book is the selection of services/prayers that the author has used in her own chaplaincy work.

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