What makes chaplaincy clinical? What does a chaplain uniquely contribute to the care of people in crisis-and how can that contribution be understood, practiced, and communicated most effectively today?
Clinical Chaplaincy: Principles & Practice offers concise, integrated answers. Rooted in Anton T. Boisen's "living human document" and the psychodynamic tradition of clinical pastoral education, it brings developments in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis, cultural understandings of religion and spirituality, Group Relations and systems thinking, and the realities of institutional life into a single framework.
David Roth presents chaplains as specialists in the care of the soul: attending to feeling, meaning, relationship, and the systems in which suffering occurs. The Right Resource Model he introduces clarifies the chaplain's distinctive place in providing care, while practical guidance on assessment, documentation, boundaries, as well as education and formation makes this a working book for chaplains, students, educators, and leaders, especially but not only in healthcare.