Training Guide for Visiting the Sick - Richard L Dayringer, William G Justice

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick

More Than a Social Call
Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-2704-7 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral careand make your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you!

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a bedside hospital chaplain, the author explains appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and suggests things to say (or not to say) to truly make your next visit fruitful for you and the patient. More than simply an educational tool, this guidebook provides clergy and Christian laypeople with spiritual explanations and straightforward strategies to not only comfort the patient but also foster the sense of joy and accomplishment in oneself.

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call teaches you to glean a positive experience from a difficult task, the visit to the sick. The author shares his insights learned in his lengthy and distinguished career in this instructional guidebook. Honest and compassionate in its portrayal of the sick and dying, the book prepares the reader spiritually, emotionally, and even physically for the challenge of the visit while focusing on the distress and the needs of the patient. At times stating practical common sense, other times shining an insightful light on the less physical aspects of the visit, this educational handbook is invaluable for all who minister, or wish to minister, to the sick.

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call discusses:



Jesus’ Eleventh CommandmentTo Love One Another

how to prepare yourself spiritually and emotionally for the visit

the hospital patient’s world

explanations of patients’ possible emotional, financial, family, and spiritual distress

do’s and don’ts to note before and during a visit to the patient’s room

the special needs of shut-ins

ministering to the dying

ministering to difficult patients

ministering to Alzheimer’s or comatose patients



Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a practical educational guide for pastors, supervisors in clinical pastoral education programs, CPE students, college and seminary students in courses in ministry to the sick, police and fire department chaplains, and family and friends of hospitalized, nursing home, and assisted living patients/residents.

Dayringer, Richard L; Justice, William G

Foreword (Richard Dayringer)

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Ministry As a Response to the Eleventh Commandment

A New Commandment

The Great Commission

Chapter 2. The Prepared Serve Well

Prepare Yourself Spiritually

Prepare Yourself Emotionally

Prepare by Answering Some Questions of Yourself

Prepare by Learning

Prepare to Listen

Prepare for a Test

Prepare by Learning the Patient’s Likes and Dislikes

Preparation Yields Proven Benefits

Chapter 3. The Hospital Patient’s World

An Ancient Alien World of Distress

A Modern Alien World of Distress

Chapter 4. Dos and Don’ts Before Entering the Patient’s Room

Planning Your Visit

Respect the Rules of the Hospital

Respect the Privacy of the Patient

Chapter 5. Dos and Don’ts While Visiting in the Patient’s Room

Entering the Patient’s Room

Greeting and Initiating the Visit

Maximizing the Effects of Your Physical Presence

Monitoring Your Mood, Attitude, and Conversation

Ending Your Visit

Final Thoughts

Chapter 6. Shut-Ins: The Church’s Abandoned People

Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facility Patients

Homebound Patients

Planning the Time and Length of Your Visit

Structuring Your Visit and Making the Most of Your Time

Understanding and Respecting the Staff’s Concerns and Requests

Chapter 7. Ministering to the Dying

Our Conflicts with Death and Dying

Some Factors That Influence the Dying Patient’s Coping Process

Goals While Working with the Dying

Should the Patient Be Told That He or She Is Nearing Death?

What Can We Expect of the Person Who Learns That He or She Is Soon Going to Die?

Deathbed Repentances

Trust in Yourself and Your Resources

Advice for Pastors and Professional Hospital Chaplains

Chapter 8. Ministering to Other Difficult Patients

Ministering to the Comatose Patient

Ministering to the Alzheimer’s Patient

Chapter 9. Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.9.2005
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10 0-7890-2704-6 / 0789027046
ISBN-13 978-0-7890-2704-7 / 9780789027047
Zustand Neuware
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