| Making Chaplaincy Work: Practical Approaches Contributor(s): Burton, Laurel A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0866567437 ISBN-13: 9780866567435 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $168.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1988 Annotation: With compassion and commitment, practicing chaplains draw on a wide range of professional experiences and discuss principles, themes, and guidelines that have enhanced their ministries. These practical and successful approaches are aimed at helping others face the daily professional challenges of health care chaplaincy. The issues and responsibilities of chaplaincy work with a variety of patient populations--AIDS sufferers, long-term care patients, stroke victims, and the terminally ill--are thoroughly explored.Contributors provide creative and innovative methods of meeting the needs of hospital patients and their families as well as health care personnel, such as implementing a volunteer clergy program and establishing a surgical reporting plan. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement - Social Science | Media Studies - Religion | Christian Living - General |
| Dewey: 259.4 |
| LCCN: 88000541 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.16" W x 8.75" (0.74 lbs) 108 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Topical - Death/Dying - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With compassion and commitment, practicing chaplains draw on a wide range of professional experiences and discuss principles, themes, and guidelines that have enhanced their ministries. These practical and successful approaches are aimed at helping others face the daily professional challenges of health care chaplaincy. The issues and responsibilities of chaplaincy work with a variety of patient populations--AIDS sufferers, long-term care patients, stroke victims, and the terminally ill--are thoroughly explored. Contributors provide creative and innovative methods of meeting the needs of hospital patients and their families as well as health care personnel, such as implementing a volunteer clergy program and establishing a surgical reporting plan. |