Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care

This essential resource integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care with the latest approaches to spiritual care. It is specifically intended for professionals who work or spend time with congregants in acute care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation centres and long-term care facilities.Offering the latest theological perspectives and tools, along with basic theory and skills from the best pastoral and spiritual care texts, research and concepts, the contributors to this resource are experts in their fields and include eight current or past presidents of the major chaplaincy organisations.