This moving tide of interest makes the timing right for a major advance in the churches»
mental health ministries.
Seminary faculties could contribute to the mental health of students, and through them to
the mental health ministries of the churches, by enhancing their own ministry to students, creating a climate of healing concern in the seminary community, and resolving devisive in - fighting that, when it exists, reduces the seminary's effectiveness in producing mentally healthy and spiritually mature ministers.
The main point here is that some one group should have particular responsibility for developing a congregation's
mental health ministry.
A part of the job of a church or temple is to develop its own strategy for reaching out redemptively into the community, using its own unique style of
mental health ministry.
Here are some facets of a layman's
mental health ministry:
A layman can implement
his mental health ministry by accepting leadership in community mental health projects.
Not exact matches
For countless persons, this supportive
ministry is indispensable to the maintenance of robust
mental health.
This growth
ministry is at the center of the church's
mental health mission.
For it often took the heat off the need to find focus, interest, and status entirely through the functions and relationships of
ministry, and thus no doubt contributed to
mental health.
In the long run, however, science and medicine will properly be in charge of much of this work, and
ministry will have to be conducted through staff cooperation just as in relation to physical and
mental illness, alcoholism, and other
health problems.
There are, however, certain
mental health hazards in the
ministry against which every minister needs to develop strategies of defense.
The discovery of one's personal prophetic
ministry as a Christian is a very good thing for one's
mental health, as well as for one's church and community.
The contemporary
mental health thrust in the churches, while having the advantage of new insights from the sciences of man and new helping techniques from the psychotherapeutic disciplines, is essentially the same concern for the healing and growth of persons as was found in the
ministry of Jesus and throughout the church's history.
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.
The clergyman may begin to realize that the
mental health professional has a contribution to make to his total pastoral
ministry.
A partnership between the community
mental health center and the local clergy should include consultative services with the clergy to assist them with their own pastoral care and counseling
ministry with their parishioners; education and training opportunities in
mental health, including evaluative and referral procedures in relation to the local
mental health center; and the development and supervision of an after - care
ministry with patients originally referred to the center by the local minister, priest, or rabbi.
In attempting here a broad - scale analysis, I am assuming that
mental health services are a concern of the churches and churchpeople, over and above any special interest we may have in religious
ministry to patients or clients.
As members of one of the oldest counseling, caring professions, clergymen can affirm their heritage by increased involvement in
mental - spiritual
health ministries within both religious and wider communities.
was written to assist a local church in enhancing its
ministry of growth and healing by releasing the
mental health potentialities within its many - faceted activities.
In addition to providing information and training, the
ministry has launched several recent initiatives that aim to increase the access to and efficiency of the justice system and to make changes that allow it to better deal with social outliers like the homeless and people dealing with
mental health and / or substance abuse problems.
We provide high quality continuing educational resources, skills training, & case consultation for
mental health clinicians,
ministry leaders, & professionals interested in addressing the needs of psychosocial trauma victims in the United States & around the world.
And at the bottom of the post, public
health leaders analyse the likely impact of the end of the
ministries for
mental health, Indigenous
health, disabilities and aged care.
A background in
mental health, education, law enforcement,
ministry, or substance abuse is required to be trained in the program.
So for the last three years I have been working a combination of
ministry jobs, therapy / counseling jobs (primarily in community
mental health clinics) and some social media stuff.
After a lot of years of work in university life, church
ministry, pastoral care and non-profit community
mental health agencies I felt that the time was ripe for this transition.
My background includes community
mental health, crisis intervention, and youth and family
ministry.