Disaster Spiritual Care, 2nd Edition: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy
The first comprehensive resource for pastoral care in the face of disaster—a vital resource for clergy, seminarians, pastoral counselors and caregivers of all faith traditions. Updated and expanded!
This essential resource for clergy and caregivers integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care with the unique challenges of disaster response on community, regional and national levels.
Offering the latest theological perspectives and tools—along with basic theory and skills from the best disaster response texts, research and concepts—the contributors to this resource are innovators in their fields and represent Christianity, Judaism, Islam and more.
New to this edition are chapters on:
- N-VOAD Points of Consensus and Guidelines—A Developing Conversation
- Ethics in Disaster Spiritual Care
- Assessment
- Developing a Theological Framework for Providing Disaster Spiritual Care
- And More
Exploring how spiritual care changes following a disaster, and including a comprehensive explanation of a disaster's lifecycle, this is the definitive guidebook for counseling not only the victims of disaster but also the clergy and caregivers who are called to service in the wake of crisis.
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Book details
- Author
- Stephen Roberts, Willard Ashley
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Clergy
Religion › Counseling
Religion › Christian Ministry › Pastoral Resources - Topics
- pastoral care · disaster response · crisis counseling · interfaith ministry · spiritual caregiving · community tragedy · religious leadership
- ISBN-13
- 9781683360292 (Paperback)9781594735875 (Hardcover)
About the author
REV. WILLARD W. C. ASHLEY SR., MDiv, DMin, DH, is the first African American dean of New Brunswick Theological Seminary and a New Jersey State Certified Psychoanalyst with more than three decades of pastoral and clinical practice. His recent books include Disaster Spiritual Care, 2nd Edition and Learning to Lead: Lessons in Leadership for People of Faith.
Ashley holds credentials as a trained Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Group Psychotherapist, and serves as President and CEO of Dr. Willard Ashley, Sr., LLC and founding pastor of Abundant Joy Community Church in Jersey City, New Jersey.
When not writing, Ashley consults on disaster recovery and clergy self-care for congregations and Fortune 100 companies, and speaks on leadership development, clergy resiliency, and interfaith dialogue. This work informs his writing directly.
Willard lives in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.