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Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family: A Pastoral Care Approach book cover

1st Edition

Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family A Pastoral Care Approach

By Harold G Koenig, George W Bowman Copyright 1998
166 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge
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Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family: A Pastoral Care Approach enables grief counselors, pastors, hospice specialists, hospital chaplains, mental health practitioners, educators, and seminary students to bring an understanding of faith development, family systems, and gender and ethnic differences into their professional practice as they work with dying and grieving persons. No other book covers all... Read more
Contents Preface
  • Faith Development in the Crises of Dying and Grieving
  • Primal Faith (Incorporative Self)
  • Intuitive-Projective Faith (Impulsive Self)
  • Mythic-Literal Faith (Imperial Self)
  • Synthetic-Conventional Faith (Interpersonal Self)
  • Individuative-Reflective Faith (Institutional Self)
  • Conjunctive Faith (Interindividual Self)
  • Universalizing Faith (Theonomy; or As I Suggest, Theonomous)
  • Gender Differences: Carol Gilligan and Feminine Voices
  • Ethnic Differences Understanding and Usefulness of Family Systems in Ministry to Dying and Grieving Persons
  • Brief Summary of Family Systems Therapy
  • Useful Concepts of Family Therapy in Ministry to the Dying and Grieving
  • The Pastor’s Ministry to the Dying
  • The Necessity for Self-Understanding
  • Understanding and Using Available Support Systems
  • Emotional Dynamics and Responses of Dying Patients
  • Emotional Progression in the Dying Patient
  • Helpful Principles for the Pastor
  • AIDS: The Disease
  • Pastoral Care to AIDS Patients and Families
  • The Pastor’s Ministry to the Grieving
  • Common Reactions and Responses in Grief
  • Healthy Management of Grief
  • The Value and Utilization of Religious Resources
  • The Minister’s Role
  • The Scriptures
  • Prayer
  • Sacraments, Ordinances, and Rituals
  • Religious Literature
  • Preparing the Living to Deal with Death
  • The Community of Faith
  • The Funeral Service
  • The Pastor’s Unique Function in Death’s Crises
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Biography

Harold G Koenig

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