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Pastoral Counselling As Relational Process: The Significance Of Interrelational Dynamics For Pastoral Counseling, Arthur Clarence Scott
Pastoral Counselling As Relational Process: The Significance Of Interrelational Dynamics For Pastoral Counseling, Arthur Clarence Scott
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis explores the significance of interrelational dynamics for pastoral counselling. Sources include a literary review of object relations theory and personal observation. This work attempts to integrate object relations therapy. incarnational theology and the clinical paradigm of pastoral counselling. From an object relations perspective, we are relational beings and therapeutic relationships define therapy. In a parallel process, the gospel directs pastoral counsellmg. as a relational process. beyond the message to an interplay between interrelational dynamics and healing processes. The contributions include a hermeneutical circle for interrelatedness. The conclusions encourage a thorough understanding of and dynamic participation in regeneration and …
Engaging Denial Through Spirituality: An Ethnographic Study Of Caregivers Of The Elderly And Implications For Pastoral Care, Ian Elliott Gartshore
Engaging Denial Through Spirituality: An Ethnographic Study Of Caregivers Of The Elderly And Implications For Pastoral Care, Ian Elliott Gartshore
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The paper examines a number of studies conducted on caregivers of the institutionalized elderly, including a large qualitative research project conducted by the author and a hospital administrator. Finding that many professional caregivers of the aged continue to deny their own aging and death to some degree, this paper seeks to chart the relationship between such denial and spiritual wholeness. The facets of denial, both positive and negative, are examined in the light of the dual nature of spirituality. Midlife is viewed as being the crucial time for growth and well-being for oneself and for the wider community, including the …
Potentials And Problems Unique To Clergy Couples In Ministry, William Lorne Mitchell
Potentials And Problems Unique To Clergy Couples In Ministry, William Lorne Mitchell
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In the past twenty years there has been an increase in the number of Clergy Couples. This study uses qualitative methods in order to research the question: What are the potentials and problems of clergy couples in ministry? Nine clergy couples were interviewed. A deductive content analysis of the data was done using the five categories of vocation issues, identity issues, support issues, time issues, and boundary/role issues. Results indicated that reported problems were dominated by boundary/role issues; reported potentials were dominated by vocation, identity and support issues. An inductive content analysis was done on the data in order to …
Families And Job Loss In Rural Newfoundland And Urban Ontario: A Systems Approach To Identifying Stress And Coping Strategies For Pastoral Care, Christina Marguerite Emmaus Edwards
Families And Job Loss In Rural Newfoundland And Urban Ontario: A Systems Approach To Identifying Stress And Coping Strategies For Pastoral Care, Christina Marguerite Emmaus Edwards
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
In response to the Church's mission to manifest God's love in active concern for those in need, the experiences that have helped or blocked families to develop coping skills when faced with the pain of job loss due to the crisis in the fishing industry in rural Newfoundland and the recession in urban Ontario were investigated and recommendations for systemic pastoral care were made. The data was gathered using qualitative research methods and the FACES 111: Social Adaptability and Cohesion Scale. Building on the work of Hill, McCubbin and Patterson, and using Graham's Psychosystemic map a Triple ABC-X Model of …