Pastoral Care in an Interim Setting

2003 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Fred D. McGehee
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Primary Care Giver

Pastoral care—caregiving—is probably the most important of all the ministries of a pastor. Every pastor knows the vital importance of care provided in times of crisis, serious illness or injury, and death. Such care, according to McGehee, is even more crucial in the interim situation. In addition to crisis ministry, the interim pastor is the primary care giver in the ordinary situations of ministry. He or she is to be the encourager, the enabler, the empowerer for the congregation.

Adult children and parental care-giving: making sense of participation patterns among siblings

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANU M. LEINONEN
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Sibling Relations ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Primary Care Giver

ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to analyse 20 Finnish working carers' perceptions of their sibling relations and the sharing of the responsibility for parental care. The main focus is on the interviewees' rationales for the participation or non-participation of their siblings in the parents' care. Almost all the interviewed carers stated that the division of care responsibilities is unequal and that they are the primary carers, but the majority did not convey any clear intention to try to persuade their siblings to increase their participation in parental care. In many cases, the siblings were described either as entirely absent or as providing occasional backup, but some interviewees reported that caring for the parent(s) was shared with their other siblings. Consequently, three participation patterns were identified: ‘absence’, ‘backup’ and ‘togetherness’. All the interviewees offered rationales for the unequal division of care tasks and responsibilities among the siblings. The discussion focuses on these rationales and their variations by participation patterns, and considers the similarity of the findings to those from previous American and British studies. The study concludes that social-care services should take the primary carer's siblings into consideration, although not always as a ‘resource’. It should not be taken for granted or assumed that the primary care-giver receives help from her or his siblings, even if their relationship is otherwise close and unproblematic.

Music Therapy and Parent-Infant Programmes

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Edwards ◽  
Vicky Abad
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Therapy Group ◽  
Infant Care ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Primary Care Giver ◽  
The Relationship

Parent-infant work in music therapy provides the opportunity for the existing musicality of the infant-care giver pair to be accessed and enhanced. Music therapy is provided to support and enhance the skills of the dyad thus improving the relational strengths where a difficulty or impairment of satisfying contact in the relationship has occurred. The approaches developed in parent infant music therapy group and individual work have been informed primarily from an understanding of the importance of an infant achieving secure attachment with a primary care giver as the basis of ongoing lifelong mental health. This chapter provides an overview of practice in parent-infant music therapy programmes, including considerations for starting groups. Additionally, the growing literature in this field is presented and discussed.

Elasticity of care networks and the gendered division of care

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILCO KRUIJSWIJK ◽  
BARBARA DA ROIT ◽  
MARCEL HOOGENBOOM
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Research Finding ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Primary Care Giver

ABSTRACTThe gender gap in family care-giving is an established research finding: men dedicate less time to care-giving and provide specific gendered types of help. This article argues that in order to grasp men's contribution to care arrangements one should recognise the multifaceted nature of care and examine care networks beyond the ‘care receiver–primary care-giver’ dyad with a dynamic perspective. A qualitative analysis of the care networks of three large Dutch families with an older parent in need of care confirms the greater involvement of women in care-giving and men's tendency to provide specific types of care. However, men also contribute to the elasticity and stability of the care arrangement by filling temporary gaps and supporting the female care-givers. This article puts forward the idea that men's contribution is in turn a factor in the perpetuation of the gendered structure of care-giving.

Interprofessional Work in Serious Illness Communication in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 751-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Lakin ◽  
Emily Benotti ◽  
Joanna Paladino ◽  
Natalie Henrich ◽  
Justin Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Serious Illness

Reassurance Therapy: What to Say to Symptomatic Patients with Benign or Non-Existent Medical Disease

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Kathol
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Clinical Evaluation ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Normal Activity ◽  
Benign Disease ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Physical Assessment ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Medical Disease

Reassurance is one of the most important therapies that primary care physicians give; however, little has been written about it in the literature. This article suggests six steps needed for effective reassurance in patients with benign disease or symptoms not explained by disease. These include: 1) question and examine the patient, 2) assure the patient that serious illness is not present, 3) suggest the symptom will resolve, 4) tell the patient to return to normal activity, 5) consider non-specific treatment, and 6) follow the patient. Only if these systematic steps are followed will reassurance consistently work. Since examination of the patient is a critical component of reassurance therapy, it can most effectively be administered by individuals who include a physical assessment as a part of the clinical evaluation.

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