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Disaster Spiritual Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy [Hardcover]

Stephen B. Roberts (Editor), Willard W. C., Sr. Ashley (Editor)
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March 2008
The first comprehensive resource for pastoral care in the face of disaster--a vital resource for clergy, seminarians, pastoral counselors and caregivers of all faith traditions. This essential resource for clergy and caregivers integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care with the unique challenges of disaster response on community, regional and national levels.

Offering the latest theological perspectives and tools, along with basic theory and skills from the best disaster response texts, research and concepts, the contributors to this resource are innovators in their fields and represent Christianity, Judaism, Islam and more.

Exploring how spiritual care changes following a disaster, and including a comprehensive explanation of a disaster's lifecycle, this is the definitive guidebook for counseling not only the victims of disaster but also the clergy and caregivers who are called to service in the wake of crisis.
Contributors

  • Rev. Lloyd George Abrams, DMin
  • Imam Ummi Nur Allene Ali
  • Rev. Willard W. C. Ashley Sr., DMin, DH
  • Chaplain Therese M. Becker, MA, MDiv
  • Rev. David Billings, DMin
  • Rev. Greg Bodin, BCC, MDiv
  • Rabbi Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas, BCJC
  • Rev. Thomas H. Davis Jr.
  • Kevin L. Ellers, DMin
  • Rev. George Handzo, BCC
  • Imam Yusuf Hasan, BCC
  • Imam Muhammad Hatim, PhD, DMin
  • Rev. Earl E. Johnson, MDiv, BCC
  • Rev. Lorraine Jones, MDiv
  • John D. Kinsel, MS, LPCC
  • Rev. Canon William V. Livingston, MDiv, MEd
  • Rev. Charles R. Lorrain, DMin
  • Rev. Kevin Massey, BCC
  • Rabbi Myrna Matsa, DMin
  • Pamela Norris Norwood, LCSW
  • Rev. Naomi Paget, DMin, BCC, BCETS
  • Rev. Rebeca Radillo, DMin
  • Tanya Pagán Raggio, MD, MPH, FAAP
  • Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, BCJC
  • Rev. John A. Robinson Jr., MDiv
  • Roberta L. Samet, LCSW
  • Rev. Arthur Schmidt, DMin, BCC
  • Timothy G. Serban, MA, BCC
  • Rev. Frederick J. Streets, MDiv, MSW,DSW, DD, LICSW
  • Rev. Julie Taylor, MDiv, CTR
  • Cheryl Guidry Tyiska
  • Rev. Beverly Wallace, PhD
  • Rev. John C. Wilson, PhD

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This is certainly an essential reference for anyone involved or interested in emergency response and recovery.  This is the first time I have found such a comprehensive and so well systematised compilation.  --Insights Magazine (February 2009)

The breadth of issues attending to means that there is something for everyone amidst the abundance of information and suggestions regarding Disaster Spiritual Care. --Reflective Practice: Formation & Supervision in Ministry (May 2008)

This book draws on a wealth of experience and provides a compendium of realistic scenarios...and of corresponding resources and personal and professional gifts and skills needed..in meeting the needs. --Catholic Library World (September 2008)

This collection of articles provides guidance and information to clergy, preparing them to respond to natural as well as human-made disasters that might confront them. --Jewish Book World (Winter 2008)

About the Author

Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, BCJC, is chairman emeritus and a founder of Disaster Chaplaincy Services, Inc., a partnership program within the American Red Cross in Greater New York. He is the associate executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis overseeing the Jack D. Weiler Chaplaincy Program and a past president of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains. He was the first to set up American Red Cross spiritual care provisions in New York City after 9/11. He has taught extensively on disaster spiritual care and was the primary researcher for the only published peer-review research on the impact of disasters on spiritual care providers.

Rev. Willard W. C. Ashley Sr., DMin, DH, a psychotherapist, is the founder and senior pastor of the Abundant Joy Community Church in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was project director for Care for the Caregivers Interfaith Program, the largest clergy resiliency program in the United States, created to assist caregivers in New York after 9/11. He also serves as a consultant on disaster recovery and clergy self-care to congregations and Fortune 100 companies; and is a board member of Disaster Chaplaincy Services. Ashley is an ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.; Disciples of Christ; and the American Baptist Churches, USA.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 348 pages
  • Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing; First Printing edition (March 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159473240X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594732409
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Disasters and Clergy Response, May 8, 2008
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Rabbi Stephen Roberts and his fellow authors have penned an outstanding compendium of extremely practical elements which are involved in any kind of major national/natural disaster. Having spent three weeks at the World Trade Center in NYC in Sep-Oct 2001, I saw first hand the wealth of good effort by clergy of all faith groups working together, and the sadly misguided efforts of some clergy who simply did not understand the nature of a disaster as not being a time of proselytizing or evangelizing, but a time of listening, of being there, and of providing the very simplest of human needs to exhausted, emotionally drained, and spiritually challenged firefighters, police officers, EMT personnel, and a myriad of other professionals involved in the rescue and recovery. This is a MUST read for all clergy who care for all peoples of the earth.
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This review is from: Disaster Spiritual Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy (Hardcover)
This is a wonderful product giving clear advise on how to handle tough situations. It is a must have for any minister who may work in a disaster.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Disaster Care book..should be in every pastor's library, September 5, 2011
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We are purchasing another copy of this book to add to our church library! We learned about it in a disaster response class we took. It's excellent, with practical information, examples of how to reach out to your neighbor, community, or on a larger scale.....great info and training! This is a good book for the church library, and to have in your home book collection if you are at all interested in becoming involved with your community during disasters and emergencies.
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other faith community leaders, disaster chaplains, disaster spiritual care, spiritual care providers, spiritual first aid, unaffiliated volunteers, disaster mental health services, professional chaplains, compassion fatigue, respite center, clergy spouses, chaplaincy services, first aid provider, disaster mortuary, secondary traumatic stress disorder, spiritual emergence, disaster survivors
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