Chaplaincy Strategies: Feelings or Emotions
How do we distinguish chaplaincy interventions from psychological ones? After all, we're chaplains, not therapists...
Often chaplains are called upon when there is a problem, a troubling situation or the exhibition of negative emotions. Positive emotions have received little empirical attention.
There are several, interrelated reasons for this. One of them, which has plagued psychology in general, is the traditional focus on psychological problems along with remedies for those problems. While the behavioral sciences inform chaplaincy, how do we distinguish our interventions from psychologists'?
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Consider
If you could not ask someone, “How are you feeling today?” to assess for an intervention, what could you say instead?