Pastoral Care in Hospitals, 2nd ed.
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Overview
Bringing comfort and concern to the bedside of the sick or dying is a challenge for lay people and clergy alike. In this practical guide, Neville Kirkwood shares his wisdom–gleaned from some twenty years of experience as a hospital chaplain–on the art of hospital visitation.
This classic handbook is now updated, with an all-new section addressing best practices for hospital chaplains. Pastoral Care in Hospitals, with additional sections addressed to clergy and trained lay pastoral workers, as well as ordinary lay people who simply want to visit their fellow-parishioners, shows visitors ways to make the encounter meaningful and enriching to the patient. Kirkwood guides readers through the minefield of hospital visits–from false heartiness to too much talking–and offers a theology of visitation that can guide both professionals and laity in their ministry.
A variety of exercises and a section of prayers for specific circumstances make this a must-have resource for all who work with the sick and dying, and an excellent text for course work.
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- Helps those who feel that have a calling to hospital ministry
- Addresses three categories of visitors to hospitals on behalf of the church
- Contains a section for the benefit of full-time and sessional chaplains of the Chaplaincy Department
For Hospital Visitors
- Off to Hospital
- Visiting the Patient
- Respecting the Patient
- Observe
- Relatives and Friends
For Lay Pastoral Workers
- The Patient’s Needs
- The Patient in Crisis
- Temptations
- The Place of Prayer
- Jesus – A Theological Model
For Clergy Visiting Hospitals
- Know Yourself
- Competence and Empathy
- Why Suffering?
- Depression
- Theological Reflection
For the Hospital Chaplain
- The Carer’s Motivation
- Pitfalls for the Chaplain
- Avoiding the Pits
- Stop, Revive, Survive
... comprehensive, basic ... for anyone preparing parish hospital visitors or even eucharistic ministers for hospital visitation... balanced...
—The Quarterly for Parish Ministers
... must-have resource for all who work with the sick and dying.
—South Dakota Church News, 03/15/1999
In non-technical language, Kirkwood helps lay and clergy visitors understand what actions, words, and practices may be helpful versus harmful.
—Pastoral Life
- Title: Pastoral Care in Hospitals
- Author: Neville A. Kirkwood
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2005
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 304
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Hospital patients › Pastoral counseling of; Church work with the sick; Pastoral medicine
- ISBNs: 9780819221919, 9780855744052, 0819221910, 0855744057
- Resource ID: LLS:PSTRLCRHSCNDDTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:29:58Z
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