Congregational Care: Issues in Congregational Care

This page includes resources for the following common topics in congregational care:

• Congregational Life
• Crisis Intervention
• End of Life Care, Dying, and Death
• Grief
• Illness and Hospitalization
• Mental Health
• Older Adults
• Relationship Counseling

Subject Headings for More Resources on this Topic:

• Church leadership
• Church management
• Christian sociology
• Pastoral psychology
• Pastoral theology
• Systemic therapy (Family therapy)

Note: Use "congregational life" as a keyword phrase within quotation marks in combination with any of the subjects above to yield more targeted results.

Subject Headings to Use for More Resources:

Note: For the most focused results, combine one of the headings focused on pastoral work with one focused on crisis intervention.

• Pastoral counseling
• Pastoral care
• Crisis intervention
• Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
• Church work with disaster victims

Subject Headings to Use for More Resources:

• Attitude to death
• Death -- Psychological aspects
• Palliative care
• Terminal care
• Terminally ill
• Church work with the terminally ill

Subject Headings to Use for More Resources:

• Bereavement
• Grief
• Loss (Psychology)
• Church work with the bereaved

Subject Headings for Additional Resources on Mental Illness:

• Church work with the mentally ill
• Mental disorders
• Mental health -- Religious aspects
• Mental illness
• Mental illness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Mentally ill -- Pastoral counseling of
• Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Psychiatry and religion
• Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Christianity

Subject headings for additional resources:

• Church work with older people
• Older Christians -- Religious life
• Older people -- Family relationships
• Older people -- Religious life
• Older people -- Psychology
• Older people -- Social conditions
• Retirement

• Church work with families -- United States
• Families -- Pastoral counseling of
• Families -- Religious life
• Premarital counseling
• Marital communication
• Marital psychotheraphy
• Marriage counseling