The Pastoral Care of Children (Haworth Religion and Mental Health)

About this book

Explore a new way of pastoral care that enables caregivers to develop relationships and provide meaningful pastoral care to the children and youth they encounter! The Pastoral Care of Children focuses on the need for pastoral caregivers clergy and chaplains to develop relationships with youths and gives you suggestions to overcome the anxiety associated with caring for an acutely ill child through unique playful and child-centered approaches. Many pastoral caregivers have high anxiety when children are ill or hurt are unsure how to have a substantive conversation with a nine-year old or their fears of what could be said keep them from hearing what children have to say. The effective approaches in The Pastoral Care of Children are illustrated to assist you with serving the spiritual needs of children. You will explore actual pastoral care experiences that will help you gain confidence in handling situations such as a teenagers desire to be baptized out of fear of death when neither he nor his parents believe in Christ. Intelligent and heartfelt this valuable book gives you a complete theological exploration of ministering to children who may ask you &Why me? &&Why do people have to die? & and & What happens to children if they die before they are baptized? & The Pastoral Care of Children helps you answer these questions with meaningful responses that are genuine and grounded with yourself and reflect the parents&beliefs. Some of the help you will discover in The Pastoral Care of Children includes: understanding the similarities and differences of caring for children in comparison to adults such as different vocabularies but similar emotions and realizing that children are very perceptive using play as a tool for example referring to a puppets experience in reference