Chaplaincy Care
Chaplaincy is said to be all about care; but there are
various care services in chaplaincy practice and service delivery. For a proper
understanding of care provisions in chaplaincy profession and practice, there is
need for us to come to the understanding of the various type of care services
that is common to the chaplaincy world.
Permit me to define care as paying attention to something and
someone. Being endowed with or having a concern for someone or something.
Providing care services to someone or a group of people to bring about
betterment in their condition and situation.
Permit me at this juncture to contemporary type of care
services that can be found in chaplaincy, chaplaincy practice and services
delivery a follows:-
1.
Health
care services which include:
a.
Health
care services in hospitals.
b.
Mental
health care services.
c.
Hospice
care services.
d.
Palliative
care services.
e.
Ontological
care services.
f.
Psychedelic
care services.
2.
Psychotherapeutic
care services which include over a hundred types of known therapies and care
services such as:
a.
Logotherapy.
b.
Talk
therapy.
c.
Psychospiritual
therapy.
3.
Emergency
and disaster care services.
4.
Trauma
care services.
5.
Spiritual
care services.
6.
Religious
care.
7.
Emotional
care services.
8.
Psychological
care services.
9.
Environmental
care services.
10.
Psychosocial
care services.
11.
End
of life care services.
12.
Loss
and grief care services.
13.
Non-communicative
patient care services.
14.
Care
of victims of rape and assaults.
15.
Care
for suicidal people.
16.
Care
for addicts.
17.
Care
for the deceased and their relations.
18.
Counseling
care and intervention.
19.
Care
for staff of organizations and their relations – where chaplains serves.
20.
Interdisciplinary
professional care.
21.
Community
care services.
22.
Self-care.
23.
Animal
care.
24.
Nature
care.
25.
Aged
care which can be offered in hospital setting, hospice home, or nursing home,
the care recipient’s home.
26.
Etc.
In Conclusion, chaplaincy is known to be for all people in
whatsoever conditions and situations, chaplaincy care vary in diversities. This
is to enable emerging chaplains know the great prospects that awaits them in
life and practice.
Are you
interested in online professional chaplaincy training to enable you offer
beneficial chaplaincy care and services, get registered at the prestigious
chaplaincy institute – Prodam-J Chaplaincy Institute for adequate and proper
professional chaplaincy education and training to make you outstanding among
your equals? Call 08033072375; 09077515468; 08035092416 or WhatsApp – +2349050323309
Chap. David Mike-Jacobs
CPC, CPST, BCC.
Professor of
Anthropology, Certified Chaplaincy Educator & Trainer.
Blog: thechaplain1.blogspot.com
2nd Nov,
AD2022
Chaplaincy Practice
from the Beginning (AB Initio) to the Present Day
Preamble: This is not just an historical account
of chaplaincy profession but rather an attempt to unveil the mystery
surrounding chaplaincy practice; the actual practice, when it started, the
progression and development; and what chaplaincy practice has become in
contemporary times and what chaplaincy practice is expected to become in the
future.
With this mind set, I employ you to take a journey with me to
make us make some new discoveries as far as chaplaincy is concerned.
Chaplaincy Ab Initio
(in the very commencement): the legendary chaplaincy founder “Martin of Torte knows
nothing called chaplaincy neither had he seen chaplaincy practiced before his
encounter.
All that can be said about him and rightly too is that he was
compassionate, non-discriminatory, unselfish, who was prepared to share his
possession with others, and valued the good giving in every human being.
As his encounter was strange to him; he approached the Church
leadership for the interpretation of his encounter; and chaplaincy practice
become a ministry of the Church.
Chaplaincy Practice
Profession: As the
years passed by and continues also passed by. Chaplaincy becomes a ministry of
the Church to the world outside the Church setting. At first clergies were
instrumental in taking pastoral care services to members of their congregation
who were found outside the Church walls without any form of chaplaincy training
or education.
Much later this action of the Church become fashionable as
many more denominations and Church organizations started seconding clergies who
are trained theological to go into industrialized world to offer pastoral care
services and attention to people in the sector.
Success recorded by those clergies made many more people of
varying religious beliefs and affiliation desire chaplaincy services thus clamouring
for such.
Type of Chaplaincy
Practice at this Point: The type of chaplaincy practice employed at this point in time is what we
defined today as ‘premodern’ chaplaincy practice, characterized mainly by
routine ritualistic services of the Church and religious ceremonies.
This early practice of chaplaincy also incorporated pastoral
counseling, prayers, deliverance. Exorcism, meditation etc. However, this seem
to be grossly inadequate over the years as many other religious embraced
chaplaincy.
As chaplaincy became a profession of all religions;
modernization sets in and chaplaincy practice and service delivery had to progresses
further. Then cane an era where chaplains had to be better prepared for
spiritual care services they were to provide and the establishment of the
prestigious CPE become necessary. CPE therefore become a prerequisite for
chaplaincy practice in the modern time.
Professional chaplaincy practice; clinical chaplaincy
practice, supervised evidence based chaplaincy practice became a vogue in chaplaincy
world and profession and the routine ritualistic practices had to give way to
professional chaplaincy practices. Chaplaincy, as a dynamic and pragmatic
profession, its practice has also developed over the years.
The pre-modern chaplaincy practice which is classified as
traditional chaplaincy practice had to give way to modern chaplaincy practice
known as “professional chaplaincy practice.”
As chaplaincy profession remain an involving profession in an
ever changing world; chaplaincy practice has also not been static but evolving.
Chaplaincy practice has therefore not stop progressing so as to enable
chaplaincy practitioners meet the needs of the people they are called to serve.
This now leads us to the era called ‘Post-Modern’ chaplaincy
practice; where an attempt is made by professional chaplaincy practitioners to
take professional chaplaincy practice and service delivery to the secular
world, intellectual or academic world, industrial world, business world etc.
where various groups of people are to be cared for and attended to by these
professional practitioners as chaplaincy is for all people without any form of
discrimination; care must be provided for:
a.
people
of all cultures, people of all times, people of all ages, people of all colours
and races, people of all religions and even people of no particular religion.
The diversity of the people and groups of people these
professional chaplaincy practitioners have to serve and numerous challenges
they are expected to face makes it mandatory for the chaplains to be interfaith
and interreligious professionals, creating needed spaces for themselves to work
and serve amongst people of various diversities with a measure of success.
This also provide an opportunity to create needed inclusion
to enable:-
a.
Humanist
chaplains.
b.
Hindu
chaplains.
c.
Buddhist
chaplains.
d.
Jewish
chaplains.
e.
Christian
chaplains.
f.
Moslem
chaplains.
g.
Interfaith
and interreligious chaplains etc.
Offering themselves to people of diversities with needed
skills.
Recommendation: My recommendation is for a blend of
traditional, professional and post-modern chaplaincy practices.
Are you
interested in online professional chaplaincy training to enable you offer
beneficial chaplaincy care and services, get registered at the prestigious
chaplaincy institute – Prodam-J Chaplaincy Institute for adequate and proper
professional chaplaincy education and training to make you outstanding among
your equals? Call 08033072375; 07055287861; 08035092416 or WhatsApp – +2349050323309
Chap. David Mike-Jacobs
CPC, CPST, BCC.
Professor of
Anthropology, Certified Chaplaincy Educator & Trainer.
Blog: thechaplain1.blogspot.com
7th Oct,
AD2022
