Song of Songs: A Metaphorical Vision for Pastoral Care

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Counseling Relationship ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Human Need

The use of Scripture in pastoral care needs to attend to what is disclosed about God's power to transform as well as to the limitations of persons seeking care. Song of Songs provides a vision for pastoral care grounded in metaphors that tell a story that witnesses to the transforming power of love between equals. Even though the text ends in yearning, the book as a whole illustrates why desire is necessary for healthy human relationships and why love, a basic human need, is integral for any counseling relationship and especially with individuals struggling with depression.

scholarly journals ’n Pastoraatsperspektief op dreigende werksverlies

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roelf Schoeman ◽  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Employment Insecurity ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Employment Situation ◽  
Counselling Process ◽  
Pastoral Support ◽  
Therapeutic Model

A pastoral perspective on the threatening loss of employment The changing employment situation in South Africa is currently characterized by the various challenges it poses to individuals in the workplace, such as affirmative action, voluntary severance packages and discharges. Discharges are often associated with employment insecurity and the threatening loss of employment. A psychological approach to the threatening loss of employment is on its own inadequate. The aim of this article is to investigate the possibilities of a holistic approach as part of pastoral support to persons experiencing the threat of losing their employment. It aims to argue that pastoral care can benefit from a multi- disciplinary approach to the threatening loss of employment. However, pastoral care needs guidelines to facilitate its relationship with psychology and to assist in dealing with faith in the counselling process. This article makes use of Gerkin’s model for pastoral care in order to provide some guidelines for pastoral care for individuals who are experiencing a protracted threat of loss of employment. Gerkin’s model will be brought into dialogue with a cognitive behavioural therapeutic model.

Richard Wright’s Mission

2018 ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
South Side ◽  
Native Son ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Human Need

Some readers of Wright’s work have criticized him for failing to portray healthy human connection or solidarity. In her chapter, Marilyn Nissim-Sabbat maintains that Wright was deeply aware that people could only live as human beings through meaningful relations with one another. Wright understood both that the human need for solidarity runs deep and that the ability to forge it can be damaged. Without such solidarity, alienation from oneself and others will crush “Bigger” and Bigger-like characters on the South Side of Chicago and globally. Wright therefore championed the healing made possible by qualitatively enlarging our lived-experience of and with one another. Essential to articulating and acting on this need is a critical theory of transcendence that is implicit in Wright’s work. Such a theory emerges in this essay through a critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s views on identity politics and cross-group identity in The Second Sex as contrasted with parallel discussions by Wright in Native Son.

scholarly journals Dimensions of Pastoral Care: Student Wellbeing in Rural Catholic Schools

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Ollerenshaw ◽  
John McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Catholic Schools ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Primary Health

This paper investigates the health and welfare needs of students (n = 15,806) and the current service model in Catholic schools in the Ballarat Diocese of Victoria, Australia. Catholic schools use a service model underpinned by an ethos of pastoral care; there is a strong tradition of self-reliance within the Catholic education system for meeting students' health and welfare needs. The central research questions are: What are the emerging health and welfare needs of students? How does pastoral care shape the service model to meet these needs? What model/s might better meet students? primary health care needs? The research methods involved analysis of (1) extant databases of expressed service needs including referrals (n = 1,248) to Student Services over the last 2.5 years, (2) trends in the additional funding support such as special needs funding for students and the Education Maintenance Allowance for families, and (3) semi-structured individual and group interviews with 98 Diocesan and school staff responsible for meeting students' health and welfare needs. Analysis of expressed service needs revealed a marked increase in service demand, and in the complexity and severity of students' needs. Thematic analysis of qualitative interview data revealed five pressing issues: the health and welfare needs of students; stressors in the school community; rural isolation; role boundaries and individualised interventions; and self-reliant networks of care. Explanations for many of these problems can be located in wider social and economic forces impacting upon the church and rural communities. It was concluded that the pastoral care model - as it is currently configured - is not equipped to meet the escalating primary health care needs of students in rural areas. This paper considers the implications for enhanced primary health care in both rural communities and in schools.

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