Conference 75-Minute Workshop SU5
Sunday, April 30, 2017 – 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Workshop Level: Intermediate
Stephen A. Ott, MA, BCC
Chaplain
Good Samaritan Nursing Home
Islip, NY
Serious mental illness (SMI) afflicts nearly 10 million persons in the United States each year. This presentation first provides a comprehensive social history of SMI with the most current US statistics. The presentation will critically engage theologies that have been associated with mental illness and suggest a pastoral theology that affords the proper dignity to the person with SMI and mobilizes a healing ministry. Finally, specific ministerial practices for persons with SMI will be suggested.
As a result of this workshop, participants will:
- Understand the life circumstances of persons with serious mental illness.
- Critically engage theology commonly associated with mental illness and develop an appropriate theological understanding of persons with serious mental illness.
- Receive well researched recommendations for ministry to persons with serious mental illness.
Educational Materials (recommended books, articles, or websites for participants to review prior to the workshop)
– None required by the workshop presenter
Presentation Materials (items to be brought to the workshop and/or presentation materials)
– None provided by the workshop presenter
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