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anti-racist
Author_Leah R. Thomas
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chaplaincy
Christian social ethics
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feminist
mental health
mental illness
pastoral care
psychiatric
womanist
Product details
- ISBN 9781978701779
- Weight: 494g
- Dimensions: 161 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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What does it mean to engage in ethical, anti-racist pastoral care with women with mental illness, particularly if these women are residents of an inpatient psychiatric hospital? This book draws on interviews with eighteen chaplains in three psychiatric facilities to examine psychiatric chaplaincy with women in the context of a state psychiatric hospital. It combines the voices of the chaplains with the disciplines of Christian social ethics and feminist, womanist, and intercultural pastoral care to create Just Care, an approach to pastoral care that accounts for both personal and societal-systemic factors in its practice of ministry. Just Care proposes that pastoral care that addresses the entirety of the person necessitates a commitment to justice and an attention to cultural dynamics as foundational for ethical pastoral care. It argues that psychiatric pastoral care must honor the communal and individual nature of care—both the particularity of the caregiver and care seeker as well as intersections of culture, gender, race, and class.
Leah R. Thomas is visiting professor of pastoral theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
