Description
Providing pastoral care with persons who have mental illness manifests itself in a myriad of ways. Effective ministry integrates a three-fold model of care, namely the theological, pastoral, and medical models. The first half of the course will address the theological and pastoral insights regarding vulnerability and community in order to move towards an integrated ministry, while also medically surveying the wider scope of mental illnesses. The second half of the course will continue to focus on integrative ministry and look more closely at less prominent mental illnesses from the medical model, with the semester ending in the Mental Health Awareness Fair, thus putting into practice the pastoral implications. Prerequisite: PC2525 for Master of Divinity students