The Pastoral Counselor in a Community Mental Health Center
The present paper describes the work of the pastoral counseling department at Trinity Mental Health Center, Framingham, Massachusetts. In doing this it presents a model of the pastoral counselor's role in a state or community mental health center that differs in many important respects from oth...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1976
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| In: |
The Journal of pastoral care
Year: 1976, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 122-131 |
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| Summary: | The present paper describes the work of the pastoral counseling department at Trinity Mental Health Center, Framingham, Massachusetts. In doing this it presents a model of the pastoral counselor's role in a state or community mental health center that differs in many important respects from others that have appeared in the literature. It differs in that (1) it views the pastoral counselor as a psychotherapist who is more similar to than different from psychotherapists from other parent professions; (2) it views psychotherapists as the new priests of our culture. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Journal of pastoral care
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/002234097603000208 |