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Pastoral care and spiritual healing ; v. 1

Preface: Challenges to ICPCC pastoral and spiritual policy : from the private consultation of the counselling room to the open and public space of market place encounters / Daniël Louw

ICPCC : history and mission / Ulrike Elsdörfer

Part I. Indigeneity : a challenge for pastoral care and counselling. Indigenous world views and therapeutic pathways / Mason Durie

Refocussing and God spaces : holistic counselling that allows for encounters with God / Diane Divett

Advance directives and end of life care planning : a qualitative study among older adult church members in a New Zealand city / Noel Tiano

Part II. An outstanding catastrophy : a challenge for spiritual care. Narrative-hermeneutical care for the survivors of the great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, 2011 / Takaaki David Ito

Part III. Gender aspects, body and well-being : questioning pastoral care and counselling for individual and social solutions. The perspective of cura corporis within the international social media's quest for "bodyism" and "healthism" : towards a pastoral hermeneutics of the interplay between male physicality (integrative physical well-being) and compassionate intimacy (pastoral healing) / Daniël Louw

The peril of patriarchal power : distorting dignity and intimacy in (male) sexuality / J.S. van der Watt

The heart of matter; body as blessing / Anne Simmonds

Part IV. Cultural and religious diversity : a chance for spiritual care. The emergence of cultural difference and pastoral care : conflicts and opportunities of encounter and healing / Ronaldo Sathler-Rosa

The Wiesbaden experiment on Muslim care as a contribution to a healing encounter of Muslims and Christians in Germany/Europe / Ulrike Elsdörfer

Part V. Conditions of humanity, social contexts and rituals : the basics of pastoral care and counselling and spiritual care. Hope as a precondition for well-being : a case study of people in personal debt / Raili Gothóni

Religious shame theology and assistance / Paavo Kettunen

Pastoral care and counselling as congregational care : a paradigm for caring leadership / Lars-Göran Sundberg

The significance of the loss of a child for the formation of parents' spirituality : spiritual, mental, and social coping processes / Harri Koskela

Pastoral-spiritual care, counselling, & advocacy with and for those less able / John C. Carr

The welcoming guest : practices of mutual hospitality in chaplaincy / Martin Walton

Only the hair is grey ... : pastoral care and adult education for and with elderly people in a German "Begegnungsstätte" (house of encounters) / Heike Komma

Pastoral rituals and life-cycle themes in family and individual worship / Alan Niven.

Pastoral care > Congresses.

Pastoral counseling > Congresses.

Spiritual healing > Congresses.

International Council on Pastoral Care and Counselling.