Pastoral Care

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Pastoral Care

• Introduction
• 29 September 2006

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Introduction

• The overall course
• My role
• Topics to be covered
• A few concepts about pastoral care
• Pastoral Care vs. Counselling (exercise)
• Christian vs. Secular
• Counsellor vs. using counselling skills
• What is Pastoral Care
• What all is included in pastoral care
• Balancing grace and truth
• Compassion within boundaries
• Some basic skills
• Listening
• Using reflective approach
• Next week

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The overall course

• See handout

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Topics that will be covered

• A Christian Worldview
• Life and death issues
• Abortion, contraception and IVF
• Euthanasia and assisted dying
• Sexuality healthy and unhealthy expressions
• Family issues and parenting
• Marriage Relationships
• Addiction
• Death, dying, bereavement, grief and loss
• The role of praying and healing ministries
• Physical and mental illness
• Abusive relationships
• Legal implications
• Writing a Pastoral Care Policy for your church
• Confidentiality, Networking and Referral Self
  Care, Support and Accountability, Good Practice
  and Boundaries
• Site Visits

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Key concepts

• Pastoral care vs. Counselling
• Exercise
• What are the differences between pastoral care
  and counselling?
• What are your experiences of either or both?
• Handout

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Key concepts

• Christian vs. Secular

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Key concepts

• Counsellor vs. using counselling skills

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Key concepts

• Counsellor vs. using counselling skills
• Core Conditions exploring acceptance,
  genuineness and empathy. You will also develop an
  awareness of the nature of counselling
  relationships and processes.
• Counselling Skills enables you to work with the
  emotional experience of others, exploring their
  issues and concerns. This will include skills
  such as attention giving, active listening,
  reflecting, paraphrasing, summarising,
  questioning and focusing.

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Key concepts

• Counsellor vs. using counselling skills
• The values of pastoral care are the qualities
  commended by the Apostles in the New Testament
  scriptures. These are love, joy, peace, patience,
  kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness and
  self-control (Galatians 522-3) together with
  compassion, humility, tolerance, forgiveness and
  thankfulness to God (Colossians 3 12-17). They
  are to be practised with an emphasis more on
  listening than speaking (James 119-27).

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Key concepts

• What is Pastoral Care?
• Handout

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Key concepts

• Pastoral The caring role in the context of a
  religious congregation or community.
• Pastoral Care Includes various counselling skills
  together with a wide range of supportive and
  helping acts. Not to be confused with Pastoral
  Care in an education setting which refers to the
  practice of looking after the personal and social
  wellbeing of children under the care of a
  teacher. There it can encompass a wide variety of
  issues including health, social and moral
  education, behaviour management and emotional
  support.
• Pastoral Counselling, is something more in that
  it involves counsellor and client entering into a
  contractual agreement.

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Key concepts

• What all is included in pastoral care

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Pastoral Care

• All Christians have a responsibility to provide
  pastoral care (Good Samaritan story)
• As part of a church pastoral care team

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Pastoral Care

• Listening and Reflecting (allowing them to tell
  their story)
• Practical things after their story has been told
• Meals
• Hospital Appointments
• Looking after children
• Cut lawns
• Notes of encouragement (anniversaries, special
  times)
• Friendship (being the practical arms of Jesus in
  a situation of need)
• Prayer
• With
• For
• Bringing wisdom into situation remaining
  objective
• Prompting of Holy Spirit
• Time

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Key concepts

• Balancing grace and truth
• Woman caught in adultery example

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Key concepts

• Compassion
• within boundaries
• without boundaries

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Key concepts

• Some basic skills
• Listening
• Using reflective approach

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Compassion

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all
  comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction,
  so that we may be able to comfort those who are
  in any affliction, with the comfort with which we
  ourselves are comforted by God.  For as we share
  abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through
  Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we
  are afflicted, it is for your comfort and
  salvation and if we are comforted, it is for
  your comfort, which you experience when you
  patiently endure the same sufferings that we
  suffer. 2 Corinthians 1
  v 3-6

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Introduction 29th September 2006

• The overall course
• My role
• Topics to be covered
• A few concepts about pastoral care
• Pastoral Care vs. Counselling (exercise)
• Christian vs. Secular
• Counsellor vs. using counselling skills
• What is Pastoral Care
• What all is included in pastoral care
• Balancing grace and truth
• Compassion within boundaries
• Some basic skills
• Listening
• Using reflective approach
• Next week A Christian Worldview