Ashby Homer U, Verner David
Triangle Pastoral Counseling, Inc., Raleigh, NC, USA.
J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2010 Fall;64(3):2.1-11. doi: 10.1177/154230501006400302.
What does a pastoral counselor do when a clergy client reveals that he or she has been sleeping with a parishioner? Does the counselor have an ecclesiastical duty to report this offense to a church official; or does the pledge of confidentiality trump any disclosure? Some ecclesiastical bodies require their clergy to bring knowledge of these offenses to church authorities. Does this requirement apply to pastoral counselors? The authors have been confronted with these questions in their ministry of pastoral counseling and have struggled with producing a faithful, professional response. Along the way they have not received clear direction from judicatories or professional organizations. This article is the authors' attempt to answer the questions raised above as well as to challenge professional and ecclesiastical bodies to confront more forthrightly the dilemmas these situations cause for pastoral counselors who seek to protect the welfare of the Church as well as protect the pledge to maintain confidentiality.
当神职人员客户透露其与一名教区居民发生了性关系时，一名教牧咨询师该怎么做？咨询师是否有宗教职责向教会官员报告这一罪行；还是保密承诺比任何披露都更重要？一些宗教团体要求其神职人员将这些罪行告知教会当局。这一要求适用于教牧咨询师吗？作者们在其教牧咨询工作中遇到了这些问题，并一直在努力给出一个忠实、专业的回应。在此过程中，他们没有从司法机构或专业组织那里得到明确的指导。本文是作者们试图回答上述问题，并挑战专业和宗教团体更直接地面对这些情况给那些既想保护教会福祉又想信守保密承诺的教牧咨询师带来的困境。
