Pastoral Care of the Mentally Disabled: Advancing Care of the Whole Person (Monograph Published Simultaneously As Journal of Religion in Disability & Rehabilitation, Vol. 1, No. 2) [Hardcover]

Sally K Severino (Author), Richard Liew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 1994 | ISBN-10: 1560246650 | ISBN-13: 978-1560246657 | Edition: 1st

Here is a step toward encouraging a partnership between the church and the hospital for treating and evaluating patients with mental illness. Society is calling for participation of both in the process of healing the mentally ill and disabled. Pastoral Care of the Mentally Disabled addresses the perceived roles of clergy and physicians for healing the whole person, stressing that this best occurs when medicine and ministry are yoked. The contributing authors establish new tasks that must be developed to meet the needs of the whole person in the process of mending minds (medicine) and mending souls (ministry).

Before Pastoral Care of the Mentally Disabled, there was a scarcity of interchange between religion and psychiatry. The sixteen contributors to this book encourage a partnership toward evaluating and treating patients with mental illness with chapters on such topics as:

• the role of faith in mental healing
• the more of mental health in spiritual growth
• personal history of Anton Boison, a leader in the pastoral care movement who suffered from mental illness
• practical application of concepts to a clinical case
• a partnership model for tending the mentally disabled
  
  Because this book encourages the working together of those in ministry and medicine, professionals from both fields--chaplains, pastoral counselors, psychotherapists, supervisors and students in clinical pastoral education, social workers, and clergy--can find much insight into healing the mentally disabled.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 132 pages
• Publisher: Routledge Mental Health; 1st edition (August 9, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560246650
• ISBN-13: 978-1560246657
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,464,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sally K. Severino received her M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She spent seventeen years in academic psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center before becoming Professor and Executive Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, where she is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry. Certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association, she served as the first woman president of the American College of Psychoanalysts. She is nationally and internationally known for her research on emotional changes in women related to the menstrual cycle and her contributions to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Illness. For decades she was an active member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Committee on Psychiatry and Religion. She is grounded in the Christian contemplative tradition and has served on the Board of Directors for the Contemplative Center of St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a Felician Associate of the Blessed Virgin Mary Convent in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.