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 …
The chaplain today / Lawrence E. Holst -- The initial call / Bruce M. Hartung -- Crisis chaplaincy / Ronald R. Leslie -- Ministering to the surgical patient / Arthur J. Ree -- Ministering to coronary patients and their families / Arthur O. Bickel -- Pastorial care for patients in a physical medicine and rehabilitation unit / Armand Nordgren -- Emotions and illness / Harold S. Nasheim -- Pastora…