Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counsel

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Take your rightful place on the holistic health care team, with the goal of restoring vitality of body, mind, and spirit to people suffering from emotional illness! This book is designed to bring essential knowledge and skills to the religious professional who seeks to provide special ministry to the emotionally troubled. It provides a basic understanding of psychiatric illnesses, theory, and... Read more

Take your rightful place on the holistic health care team, with the goal of restoring vitality of body, mind, and spirit to people suffering from emotional illness!

This book is designed to bring essential knowledge and skills to the religious professional who seeks to provide special ministry to the emotionally troubled. It provides a basic understanding of psychiatric illnesses, theory, and treatment modalities that is certain to enlarge the perspective of the pastoral worker.

In addition to an essential overview of psychiatry in general, Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors will help you to better serve people suffering from depression, anxiety disorders, chemical dependency, reality impairment, or personality disorders. The book's format is designed specifically to help pastors grasp the principles of intervention in each of these disorders. Each of its five concise clinical chapters follows a four-part format that covers the duties and responsibilities of the clergyman as part of the holistic health care team, consisting of:

recognizing the disorder
assessing its severity
intervening in a crisis
counseling in the recovery phase

In their experience, the authors have observed that severe emotional or psychiatric illnesses often involve spiritual sickness as well. Spiritual sickness is a complex concept that may take many forms depending on the type of emotional illness it accompanies. Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors shows you what spiritual symptoms to look for when assessing someone in your care. For example, did you know that:

severe depressive illness could include the loss of faith, abandonment of hope, loss of a right relationship with God, or even self-hatred, guilt, despair, and self-annihilation
a psychotic reaction marked by loss of contact with reality might involve abnormal self-importance, grandiosity, fear, or stubbornly mistaken perceptions of reality
a problem with alcoholism might involve immoral behavior, irresponsible conduct, denial of the loss of control over liquor consumption, or abject guilt, shame, and self-hatred
personality disorders may bring on profound disturbances in social relationships, self-centered anger, impulsiveness, dishonesty, impurity, or distrust of others
people with anxiety disorders can lose their trust in God, develop obsessive fears and tensions, and become unable to turn things over to God's divine care

In Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors, you'll find the information you need to make effective judgments and assessments about the people seeking your help. The book provides you with fascinating case studies that highlight symptoms and illness patterns as well as treatment options and techniques for coordinating pastoral counseling with the mental health team. You'll learn to recognize the spiritual symptoms of disease—negative, inappropriate, of self-defeating attitudes or behaviors—and to deal specifically with these manifestations of illness through pastoral intervention and counseling. Read less

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Function of Pastoral Care in a Holistic Healing Approach
Chapter 1. An Overview of Psychiatry
History of Psychiatry
Modern Psychiatric Treatment
Chapter 2. The Depressed Person
Overview
Case Examples
Recognition
Assessment of Severity
Crisis Intervention
Counseling in the Recovery Phase
Chapter 3. The Anxious Person
Overview
Case Examples
Recognition
Assessment of Severity
Crisis Intervention
Counseling in the Recovery Phase
Chapter 4. The Chemically Dependent Person
Overview
Case Examples
Recognition
Assessment of Severity
Crisis Intervention
Counseling in the Recovery Phase
Chapter 5. The Person Experiencing Loss of Contact with Reality
Overview
Toxic-Metabolic Psychoses
Depressive Psychoses
Organic Psychoses
Manic-Depressive Psychosis
Schizophrenia
Chapter 6. The Person with a Personality Disorder
Overview
Immature Personality
Seductive Personality
Psychopathic Personality (Antisocial Personality)
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
Dependent-Inadequate Personality
Epilogue
References and Suggested Readings
Index

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Gregory Collins, Rev Thomas Culbertson, Harold G Koenig

Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment A Guide for Pastoral Counselors

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