Best Practices in Professional Pastoral Care

Abstract

Consensus is developing in the field of professional pastoral eare around the several best practiees. The discipline is becoming a multi-faith, referral serviee. Generally, it is no longer the case that particular clergy come in and visit ali of the patients of their faith tradition. This model does not make efficient use of pastoral eare resources and does not promote integration into the health care team which is so essential to the continuity of care and quality practice. In current best practice, ehaplains are assigned to specific locations, generally selected for their strategie importance to the institution, and visit patients of all faiths selected according to specific protocols. While there are no fonnal agreed upon practices adopted by industry groups, the following practices are increasingly accepted as representing the highest quality in professional pastoral care.

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