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Published in: Journal of Religion and Health 2/2018

01-04-2018 | Impressionistic Reporting

Reflections for Clinical Pastoral Education Students in Psychiatric Settings

Author: Nathan Carlin

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 2/2018

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Abstract

This article focuses on Donald Capps’s books on mental illness. In doing so I highlight three key insights from Capps that I have applied in my own ministry with persons with mental illness in various psychiatric hospitals. These insights, together with my own experience as a chaplain, lead to three practical lessons for clinical pastoral education students in psychiatric settings. I provide some context for my interest in mental illness and my friendship with Capps, as well as some background regarding how Capps’s writings on mental illness fit with certain broader themes in his own work as a pastoral theologian. This essay is personal throughout.
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Metadata
Title
Reflections for Clinical Pastoral Education Students in Psychiatric Settings
Author
Nathan Carlin
Publication date
01-04-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0450-9

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