Ministry to Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: A Spiritual Challenge
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Pastoral Care
- Vol. 41 (1) , 4-16
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002234098704100103
Abstract
Notes some of the psychosocial aspects of AID patients and offers general guidelines for caregivers in dealing with the factors of impact, regression, acknowledgment, and reconstruction. Identifies the main tools of ministry as those of presence, affirmation, and listening. Challenges the church to go beyond society's negativism regarding AIDS and to offer the sort of reconciliation made manifest in the scriptures.Keywords
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