These two facets of his professional role definition give the minister a potential advantage over those in the other helping professions, so far as the early recognition of distressed persons is concerned. (religion-online.org)
The data revealed that pastors do not necessarily take on a new or unprecedented role in being concerned with emotionally distressed persons hospitalized or not hospitalized. (religion-online.org)
The pastors recognized some lack of understanding existed between themselves and the community resources to which they might refer distressed persons. (religion-online.org)