Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul Contributor(s): Fuller Rogers, Dalene C. (Author), Koenig, Harold G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789015412 ISBN-13: 9780789015419 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd) - Family & Relationships - Psychology | Industrial & Organizational Psychology |
Dewey: 616.852 |
LCCN: 2001051685 |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.36" W x 8.76" (0.91 lbs) 138 pages |
Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Topical - Family - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Provide effective care for the members of your congregation suffering with PTSD!This vital book is an overview of the nature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It examines the causes, manifestations, and problems of PTSD as they relate to a person socially, spiritually, emotionally, physically, and psychologically. Stressing hope, healing, and compassion, Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul includes specific suggestions for the prevention of traumatic events and for using peacemaking techniques to stop violence in your clients'lives.Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a practical, understandable, professionally presented and researched working guide for clergy in parishes, for chaplains, and for seminarians who have little or no knowledge of how to pastor to people who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It is also for lay people who minister to those who have been traumatized. Survivors will also benefit from its affirmation for the spiritual component of healing.This unique volume provides the practical means to support people through the healing process while maintaining their spiritual grounding, with:
Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder also defines PTSD from a mental health perspective and gives examples of the kinds of trauma that may lead to it. No one working with PTSD survivors in a spiritual setting should be without this book! |