Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care

<p>Clergy are more likely than ever to be called on to respond to community trauma sitting alongside trauma survivors after natural disasters racial violence and difficult losses. In <i>Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care: How to Respond When Things Fall Apart</i> pastoral psychologist Karen A. McClintock calls clergy to learn and practice trauma-informed care so they can respond with competence and confidence when life becomes overwhelming.</p><p>Weaving together the latest insights about trauma-informed care from the rapidly shifting disciplines of neuropsychology counseling and theology she explains the body's instinctual stress patterns during and after trauma guides readers through self-reflection and self-regulation in order to care for others and lower the risk of obtaining secondary trauma and suggests culturally sensitive models for healing from overwhelming experiences.</p><p>McClintock particularly attends to the fact that across a lifetime in ministry clergy accumulate and need to regularly heal multiple traumatic wounds. As a pastor and psychologist she is perfectly positioned to help clergy recognize symptoms of trauma and commit to healing individual community and generational trauma with care and cultural sensitivity.</p>