Community clergymen can therefore
move into action in the prevention
of mental and emotional disturbances in each
of these three areas: (1) by
using the mental health center
resources to make their total pastoral ministry more
effective in the early detection
of problems; (2) by becoming more comfortable in the
use of their own style
of helping troubled people so that some crisis situations can be contained; (3) by
using the rich
resources of social concern in the churches to attack the wider problems out
of which so many individual cases
of emotional disturbance arise.