pastoral care
Guiding the flock
Pastoral care is support for people's emotional, spiritual, or personal well-being, especially as provided by religious leaders to their congregations.
The term extends beyond churches to schools, hospitals, and other institutions where someone attends to people's inner lives rather than their practical or medical needs: The chaplain provides pastoral care to patients and families.
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- chaplainInstitutional clergy member
- prayerAddress to deity
- prayer vigilProlonged devotional gathering
- laying on of handsRitual healing through touch
comfort · bedside manner · grief counseling · active listening · liturgy · crisis management · spiritual direction · spiritual well-being · empathy · shepherd · compassion · ordination · clergy · mentorship · home visit · bereavement · hand · community
- guidance servicescounseling, mentoring, advising, coaching, tutoring
- personal guidancetherapy, coaching, mentoring, counseling, life coach
- support servicestherapy, counseling, tutoring, mentoring, coaching
- ministrypreaching, teaching, chaplaincy, youth ministry, discipleship
pastoral carepsychiatric treatment
Mental health intervention
clinical treatment · medical intervention · technical assistance · therapy · psychotherapy
pastoral careabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
negligence · dereliction of duty · indifference · exploitation · clerical abuse
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