Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

by Rogers, Dalene Fuller; Koenig, Harold George

• ISBN13: 9780789015419
• ISBN10: 0789015412
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Provide effective care for the members of your congregation suffering with PTSD! This vital book is an overview of the nature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It examines the causes, manifestations, and problems of PTSD as they relate to a person socially, spiritually, emotionally, physically, and psychologically. Stressing hope, healing, and compassion, Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul includes specific suggestions for the prevention of traumatic events and for using peacemaking techniques to stop violence in your clients'lives. Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a practical, understandable, professionally presented and researched working guide for clergy in parishes, for chaplains, and for seminarians who have little or no knowledge of how to pastor to people who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It is also for lay people who minister to those who have been traumatized. Survivors will also benefit from its affirmation for the spiritual component of healing. This unique volume provides the practical means to support people through the healing process while maintaining their spiritual grounding, with: case studies that will help develop your skills a thoughtful discussion of the theological dimensions of trauma and suffering a practical methodology for crisis intervention an examination of the specific needs of veterans a look at the potential for caregiver burnout and how to prevent it ways that churches can contribute to the prevention of the trauma that leads to PTSD methods for using scripture as a source of healing for PTSD survivors Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder also defines PTSD from a mental health perspective and gives examples of the kinds of trauma that may lead to it. No one working with PTSD survivors in a spiritual setting should be without this book!

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Lawrence L. LaPierre
Acknowledgments	xiii
Defining Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Causes	1	(12)
Sexual Trauma	3	(2)
Physical Trauma	5	(2)
Psychological Trauma	7	(1)
Spiritual Trauma	8	(2)
Eyewitnesses and Survivors of Disaster	10	(3)
Symptoms of PTSD	13	(4)
Common Manifestations	17	(8)
Spiritual Issues: Grief and Anger	18	(7)
Psychological Complications	25	(6)
Church As Redemptive Community	28	(3)
Theological Dimensions of Spiritual Trauma	31	(12)
Theodicy and Suffering	31	(4)
Spiritual Care and Healing	35	(3)
Forgiveness	38	(2)
Prayer, Meditation, and Healing Practices	40	(3)
Special Needs and Issues of Veterans	43	(12)
Female Veterans	49	(2)
Gender Issues and Spirituality	51	(4)
Pastoral Care Issues for the Pastor/Caregiver	55	(12)
Role of the Pastor	55	(4)
Gender Issues and Sexuality	59	(2)
Race, Class, and Cultural Issues	61	(2)
Alternative Spirituality	63	(1)
Suicide and Crisis Intervention	64	(3)
Healing Rituals	67	(10)
A Liturgy of Communion and Healing	69	(8)
Good News in Scripture	77	(6)
Working with Therapists, Counselors, and Doctors	83	(6)
Clergy Self-Care	89	(6)
Prevention of PTSD	95	(10)
Epilogue	105	(2)
Appendix. Spiritual Assessment	107	(2)
Bibliography	109	(8)
Index	117