Pastoral Care and the Market Economy: Time-limited Psychotherapy, Managed Care, and the Pastoral Counselor

Discusses the development and popularity of short-term psychotherapy in relationship to the burgeoning field of managed health care. Views the role of pastoral counseling, pastoral counseling training, and the pastoral counselor in the context of the market economy of managed care. Claims that there...

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Published in:The Journal of pastoral care
Main Author: Childs, Brian H. 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1999
In: The Journal of pastoral care
Year: 1999, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-56
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Discusses the development and popularity of short-term psychotherapy in relationship to the burgeoning field of managed health care. Views the role of pastoral counseling, pastoral counseling training, and the pastoral counselor in the context of the market economy of managed care. Claims that there is an incompatibility of pastoral counseling with managed behavioral health care, and calls for the return of pastoral counseling to the church.
Contains:Enthalten in: The Journal of pastoral care
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/002234099905300106