{"product_id":"the-discipline-for-pastoral-care-giving-journal-of-health-care-chaplaincy-monographic-separates","title":"The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving (Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy Monographic Separates)","description":"\u003cp\u003eStructure your ministry to start with patientsneeds  hopes  and resources and to be clear what difference your ministry can make!Hospital chaplains value who they are and what they do as contributions to patientsand familieshealing and well-being. And they are continually stretching to enhance their ministries. Hospital administrators and other professionals on the care teams  however  often need help to grasp those same values in outcome oriented  observable  documentable  changes-for-the-better terms. The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving: Foundations for Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy offers a powerful new paradigm for enhancing supportive  effective spiritual care for patients and families as well as communicating substantive outcomes to leaders and clinicians alike. This is all the more important in these times when every possible resource must be well used for the good of our patients and their families.By evaluating the pastoral care you offer  you can become more aware of the discrete skills you exercise in the assessment  planning  intervention  and reflection process. Such evaluation efforts highlight the discrete differences excellent spiritual care makes. This can help you track contributions you are making in terms of the patients healing and well-being. Having a sound  replicable way to make the process more conscious also helps you communicate your assessment  strategies  and contributions more clearly to other care team members. Furthermore  consistently using The Discipline over time will enable you to discover patterns of spiritual dynamics in how people live with different health care challenges in their lives. These patterns translate into valuable insights as your care for others.The process discussed in The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving calls on the chaplain to: identify the patients spiritual needs  hopes  and resources construct a patient profile through identifying the individuals sense of the holy  sense of meaning  sense of hope  and sense of community design the desired outcome(s) you hope your care will contribute--for example  a person who has suffered a spinal cord injury integrates the effects of their injury in their sense of identity and meaning  a person living with cystic fibrosis healthfully grieves the loss of others in the CF community  a patient disabledby the absence of her support community regains use of her personal resources for coping and self-care develop and share a plan for the patients spiritual care choose interventions (which may range from facilitating a life review  to compassionate confrontation  to reading Scripture  to active listening  to arranging a family care conference) measure outcomes  identifying and communicating the difference your care has made in terms of the patients healing and well-beingThe Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving offers case studies  personal experiences  helpful figures and charts  and suggestions for dealing with patients experiencing unique  complex health care challenges  including adults living with cystic fibrosis and violent victims of violence. The wise advice and practical suggestions in this book will help you recognize and document the solid value of your hospital ministry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963286581301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0789013460","price":85.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780789013460.jpg?v=1770410833","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-discipline-for-pastoral-care-giving-journal-of-health-care-chaplaincy-monographic-separates","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}