Contents : What is a pastoral emergency? -- What does it mean to say that we care? -- The carer and the caring : who are we and how do we go about it? -- Responding to persons' needs in situational crises -- Visiting the physically ill -- Hospital emergencies -- Ministry to the dying -- Pastoral response to bereavement -- Responding to suicidal persons and their families -- Marriage and family …
I. Background -- Beginnings and growth -- Emerging roles of the briefer psychotherapies -- II. Distinguishing features -- Definitions -- Supporting theories -- III. Process and technique -- Models of the brief process -- The diagnostic process -- Techniques of intervention -- Termination -- IV. Clinical applications: Syndromes and situations -- Acute anxiety states -- Depression -- Suicide -- P…