Crisis Intervention and Pastoral Care
(Core Seminar #2)

Topics:        

The pastoral care giver as crisis counselor, the nature of pastoral care emergencies, the critical role of listening, and common pastoral care crises.

• What is a pastoral emergency?
• What does it mean to say that we care?
• The carer and the caring: Who are we and how do we go about it?
• Responding to persons’ needs in situational crisis
• The dynamics of crisis
• A design for intervention

 

Objectives:  

Following this seminar, participants should be able to:

• Identify with the role of a pastoral care giver.

• Offer active listening that is empathetic and respectful.

• Address the developmental dynamics of a situational crisis.

• Develop an approach for intervention.