Abstract
This paper discusses a brief history of the evolution of pastoral care, the philosophies that encompass a pastoral ministry within the community and the elements of pastoral care that should be included in a pastoral community ministry design. It looks at how reconciliation, restoration and motivation are all essential elements.

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"Pastoral care has undergone an evolution through the decades that began with religious views, and then transformed into a type of mere clinical counseling. Considered by some to only be a type of psychological intervention for youth in the modern world, pastoral care is often considered a method of therapy that is a means of assisting clinicians during treatment. Yet, the historical foundations of pastoral care lie in biblical spirituality. This element of religious guidance is the strength of true pastoral care, for it aids in providing the individual with scriptural insights to the world, life, and in making significant change. Biblical inclusion into pastoral care further creates the opportunity to motivate others through scripture with hope in living. "

Tags:pastoral, care, ministry

Abstract
This paper describes how a chaplain can provide pastoral care for a deaf, blind woman in the hospital who is legally blind and has lost 90% of her hearing. It includes relevant scripture verses.

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"How does a chaplain provide pastoral care to a legally blind, deaf woman in the hospital to provide a sense of God's presence with her in this difficult time? Hunsinger points out that Christian pastoral caregiving is not just a technique but an offering of oneself in Christ. The ...th-century French priest St Vincent de Paul recognized that ministry is imparting the presence of God to people. If God is the center of your life no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch..."

Tags:chaplain, pastor, pastoral care, deaf, blind, deafblind, scripture, Bible, compassion, touch, healing

Abstract
The paper examines the ways in which the pastor of a congregation should best approach the challenge of pastoral care, which involves not only counseling but also referrals to appropriate expert systems, even though they may be outside the community of faith. The paper discusses how the key is to help the parishioner in the best way possible.

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"Human nature, whether secular or spiritual, entails concerns about the individual's place in the scheme of existence. Spiritual experience in the Christian formulation is significant insofar as it finds connection between self and God, self and cosmos self and other. Where the self meets the other may be in the context of a community of faith. It is there that the role of the pastor surfaces because the pastor is uniquely positioned to see the big picture of parishioners' needs, both individually..."

Tags:pastoral care, parish council, lay ministry, religious ministry

Abstract
This paper defines and explains the meaning of the practicum and the seven marks of a practice. It then provides additional background and basic information pertaining to the writer's experiences in pastoral care. It demonstrates how and why the writer's pastoral care ministry experiences fit each mark of a practice. Finally, the paper summarizes and analyzes the writer's progress experiences to prove that his practicum is a MacIntyrean practice.

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"During my practicum I sought to become more self-aware and become more responsive to the opportunities God provides for me. Only through the action of fully embracing His message during my practicum ministry could I be successful in fulfilling my own goals and reaching the individuals who I spent time working with. Through this paper I established the key terms and explained the background and process involved in my practicum in order to reach my goals. I also included the background information necessary for the reader to clearly picture the processes involved in my practicum activities. Finally, I outlined how my activities integrated with the seven marks as defined by MacIntyre. Having met all seven marks of MacIntyre's definition of practice, my practicum ministry in pastoral care is clearly a MacIntyrean practice."

Tags:telos, ministry, theology, virtue

Abstract
This paper examines the main theme in the book which is that the custom and practice of storytelling that has been embedded for centuries into the culture of African peoples.The research sets forth the principal thesis of the work and then discusses how the pattern of ideas contained in the work and the means by which these ideas are conveyed can be applied to the practical experience of African-American clergy as well as to the individual minister's own spiritual growth.

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"Using examples from his own and others' pastoral experience as a minister, Wimberly develops the view that the use of narrative, from the perspective of the Bible, from the perspective of the minister, and from the perspective of those who are being counseled, can result in satisfactory pastoral encounters and can most fully integrate the human experience with that of what he terms God's narrative, or plan, for man. No less significant is Wimberly's view that African American narrative traditions conform with and indeed actually prefigure certain diagnostic and treatment theories and techniques of progressive psychotherapy and that African American pastoral counselors should feel confident about exploiting and applying their knowledge and direct experience of their indigenous cultural roots and socialization customs to arrive at maximal outcomes for those whom they counsel who may be facing serious problems in the context of contemporary life."

Tags:ministry, storytelling, clergy, minister, spiritual, black

Abstract
This paper describes the progress of a pastoral practicum at an Ohio care center in terms of the seven marks of practice found in MacIntyre's After Virtues and Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition. The paper defines clear terms, establishes project background, then argues that the project met all requirements for being a MacIntyrean practice.

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"Through a concise summary of my experiences and analysis, I make the argument in this paper that my practicum is a MacIntyrean practice. To support this thesis I provide a rich, ethical analysis of my pastoral care ministry experiences and role in accordance with the seven marks of a practice, as defined by MacIntyre. For clarity I first define and explain the meaning of the practicum and the seven marks of a practice. I also provide additional background and basic information pertaining to my experiences. I then demonstrate how and why my pastoral care ministry..."

Tags:pastoral care, practicum, macintyre

Abstract
The linkages in the research between sexual child abuse, addiction and prostitution, and methods and approaches to intervention by Christian pastoral counselors.

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"Socially deviant behavior arises from a variety of sources and seems limited only by the human imagination as reported in the professional literature. According to the Administration on Children Youth and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, between ... and ... million cases of child abuse were reported yearly. In Fiscal Year ..., the last year for which figures are available, approximately ... million referrals of child abuse and neglect, that included approximately million children, were made to child protective service agencies."

Tags:prostitution, sexual abuse, drug addiction, pastoral care

Abstract
This paper examines David G. Benner's short-term structured model of strategic pastoral counseling, praising it for the way it empowers the counselee rather than inducing dependency, and focusing on how it would apply to an elderly counselee.

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"David G. Benner's book "Strategic Pastoral Counseling: A Short-Term Structured Model" provides excellent insights into the practice of strategic pastoral care and counseling. In his book, Benner provides a model for pastoral counseling that involves short-term counseling designed to redirect the counselee, noting that long-term counseling is something that most pastors cannot manage, given their overbooked schedules, but also something that does not really belong within the domain of pastoral counseling. Most pastors are simply not equipped to provide long-term psychiatric counseling. However, Benner's approach is..."

Tags:pastoral, pastor, care, counseling, short-term, structured, approach, psychiatrist, church, elderly, aged, old, senior citizen, Benner, strategic, holistic, dependency, empowerment

Abstract
Counseling has been one part of the ministry of pastoral care within Christianity since new testament times and within Judaism for longer. More recently in America and then in Europe it has become explicitly recognized in the movement for pastoral care and counseling and in the specific work of specialist pastoral counselors and psychotherapists. The American Association of Pastoral Counselors fosters the work of individual therapists and of counseling services and agencies throughout North America. In Britain, the Westminster Pastoral Foundation and its affiliate centers are most representative of specialist pastoral counseling. Furthermore, the theories of the human and social sciences and the techniques of counseling have spread widely amongst pastors of all persuasions, clerical and lay. The pastoral care and counseling associations in many countries, including African and Asian states, endeavor to relate the insights of relevant secular disciplines to those of theology in the Judeo-Christian tradition. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the relationship between pastoral counseling and care for at-risk adolescents

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"This research will examine the book African American Pastoral Care by Edward P. Wimberly. The research will set forth the principal thesis of the work and then discuss how the pattern of ideas contained in the work and the means by which these ideas are conveyed can be applied to the practical experience of African American clergy with a pastoral ministry as well as to the individual minister's own spiritual growth.


The main idea of African American Pastoral Care is that the custom and practice of storytelling that has been embedded for centuries into the culture of African peoples and African Americans can profitably be adapted, and indeed for optimum results must be adapted, along with certain modern theories and practices of developmental humanistic psychology, to the purpose of counseling and guiding parishioners and others seeking..."