Background: Little is known about high school students’ perceptions of school-based pastoral support. This study aimed to explore this in the context of a high school–based emotional support project. Methods: Qualitative interviews explored perspectives on help seeking of students (N = 23) and staff (N = 27) in three UK high schools where a pastoral project was introduced. Data were analysed th...

Use the word 'counselling' in the presence of Christian ministers and it is guaranteed to produce a whole variety of responses. Some will readily and warmly receive the word because they have taken a counselling course, read some counselling books or practised some counselling skills; others will want a more precise definition to clarify just what is meant, and yet others will react in horror a...

How much did medieval lay people know about Christianity? Which religious observances were expected of them? Recent studies have often suggested that ecclesiastical expectations of the laity were relatively low overall, even if some laypeople exceeded these basic requirements. For example Norman Tanner and Sethina Watson have argued that although medieval churchmen had high aspirations for the ...

This paper presents an abbreviated version of a verbatim script developed from oral history interviews with individuals key to the development of counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland from 1960 to 2000. Earlier versions were used in workshops with counsellors and pastoral care practitioners to share counter-narratives of counselling and to provide opportunities for conversations about histo...

Her warning against telling the depressive "to pull himself together" or "humouri0^ the paranoid is still necessary in some quarters, although many points mention should already be known to an experienced parish priest. In obsessive illness aI\ reactive depression, the minister can play a most useful part in giving a Pafie{? hearing, comfort and re-assurance. "Anxiety-prone" seems a most timely...

The ideal intervention paper exercise, from the perspective of the pastoral formation of the student, can be an experience that helps to complete the student’s formation of her or his pastoral identity in a CPE Unit. The development of the paper brings into play the student’s ability to make effective use of her or his religious and spiritual heritage, theological understanding, knowledge of be...

Disproving assumptions to the contrary, this article clearly shows how and why adults can become victims of abuse in church contexts. It does by focusing on pastoral care context interdependent potential risk factors lying within. As previous studies suggest, is especially susceptible perpetrating abuse. Approximately three-quarters all cases occur or begin spiritual counseling. Often, theories...