A look at an extended quarter CPE.
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Describes how microcomputers may be used by departments of pastoral care for management analysis and for time usage studies. Claims that such analyses help to document the activities of chaplains and provide an accountability means and a way of demonstrating the contention that pastoral care is an integral part of complex health care institutions.
Maintains that a female chaplain's ministry to women breast cancer patients holds unique qualities because of the chaplain's ease of achieving physical and psychological identification with the mastectomy patient. Notes particularly how a female chaplain can provide a relationship for affirmation of self-esteem, confession, and repentance. Illustrates with actual cases ways the female chaplain can share in the feminine identity crisis, participate in the struggle to claim God-given dignity and worth, and be genuinely present for healing the resentment and guilt often accompanying the mastectomy patient's loss.
States an approach to doing grief work with families who have had a child die of cancer and outlines a small group process which follows Erich Lindemann's themes of (1) reviewing the life of the deceased, (2) reflecting on the meanings of the deceased person's life; (3) restructuring of relationships, (4) liberating the dead person, and (5) recognizing the reality of a form of resurrection.
Describes a program designed to aid medical students relate more empathically to patients and their families. Outlines the content of sessions, notes resistances and attitudes toward the program, and offers an anecdotal evaluation of the educational project.
Offers ten approaches pastoral care persons might use to confront the growing health care crises facing the United States. As a response, the Executive Director of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education outlines alternatives to traditional CPE settings which could be utilized to address creatively the many changes in health care delivery systems.
Presents a view of clergy serving ethics committees as symbols of a "different reality" and as representatives of a historical faith. Notes the roles of clergy as theologians, teachers, and pastors dedicated to the task of asking the right questions, clarifying issues, and speaking clearly the witness which the Judeo-Christian faith proclaims.