Using data from the National Survey of Black Americans, this article explores the role of African American ministers in the help seeking of African Americans for serious emotional problems. The authors explore which demographic characteristics and psychosocial factors are related to contacting Black clergy for help, whether certain types of personal problems increase the likelihood of clergy co...

This chapter seeks to explain our preliminary reflections on how different religious communities might use their texts and traditions to respond to and assess the ethics of oncofertility research and technologies. Specifically, this chapter will briefly explore the Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions and their anticipated or potential contributions to...

John Wesley’s famously adopted doctrine was the “priesthood of all believers.” This simply meant that gospel message or could not only be preached by a certain group people, but it open to who were inspired Holy Spirit. evident during 18th century Methodist movement, when women preachers and acknowledged Wesley himself. After death in England, missing as both lay ordained ministers. The Church ...

Preference within the perceiving process (sensing or intuition) is one of main features psychological type theory that differentiates clergy serving different streams Christian Church. Previous research has identified a higher proportion intuitive types among Church England than Free Churches (Baptist, Methodist, Salvation Army). New data from 93 ministers United Reformed suggest this denominat...

The transfer of psychiatric care from the institution to the community has presented community structures including faith-based organisations (FBOs) with an additional burden of care. In recent years there has been an increasing policy interest among government departments, public and non-statutory agencies for the inclusion of FBOs as partners in health and welfare services. However, despite t...

Faith leaders (FL) have a key role in suicide prevention. One of their roles is to address stigma faith communities. Are they ready do so? The Clergy Suicide Prevention Skills Developmental Rubric (CSPCDR) was developed understand and assess clergy prevention skills. psychometric properties the CSPCDR are reported order FL’ readiness stigma. Sample 1, 186 Protestant seminary students completed ...

FOR several years the National Association for Mental Health has run courses for chaplains in mental hospitals, and many of these have expressed the value of courses in their parish work. As a result of this, the National Association approached the London Churches' Group, expressing the hope that two pilot schemes might be organised; one south and one north of the river. Miss Proud, the General...

The author of this book?her first to be translated?is a Dutch psychiatrist. She has set out to relate her clinical experience to a framework of the psychology of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and to redress the balance of Freud's studies on sick people by an appeal to closer observation of those who are well. A detailed study of this, in her other works (to be translated) will be awaited wi...

This study draws on data provided to the Covid-19 & Church-21 Survey by 2,017 Anglicans (clergy and laity) living in England explore experiences of those leading accessing online (pre-recorded live-streamed) in-church services within Church between January July 2021. The demonstrated that for both services, worship was less rewarding than worship, even as expressed context Covid restrictions. M...