Palliative Care Unit, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia.
J Relig Health. 2013 Mar;52(1):46-65. doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9622-9.
This paper summarizes an initial exploratory study undertaken to consider the ministry of New Zealand chaplaincy personnel working within the mental health care context. This qualitative research (a first among New Zealand mental health care chaplains) was not concerned with specific health care institutions per se, but solely about the perspectives of chaplains concerning their professional contribution and issues they experienced when trying to provide pastoral care to patients, families, and clinical staff involved in mental health care. Data from a single focus group indicated that chaplains were fulfilling various WHO-ICD-10AM pastoral interventions as a part of a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to mental health care; however, given a number of frustrations identified by participants, which either impeded or thwarted their professional role as chaplains, a number of improvements were subsequently identified in order to develop the efficiency and effectiveness of chaplaincy and thus maximize the benefits of pastoral care to patients, families, and clinical staff. Some implications of this exploratory study relating to mental health care chaplaincy, ecclesiastical organizations, health care institutions, and government responsibilities and the need for further research are noted.
本文总结了一项初步探索性研究，旨在考虑在心理健康护理背景下工作的新西兰教会事工人员的事工。这项定性研究（在新西兰心理健康护理牧师中尚属首次）本身并不关注特定的医疗机构，而仅关注牧师对其专业贡献的看法，以及他们在试图为参与心理健康护理的患者、家属和临床工作人员提供牧养关怀时所经历的问题。来自一个焦点小组的数据表明，牧师正在履行各种世界卫生组织-国际疾病分类第十版精神与行为障碍分类（AM 编码）的牧职干预措施，作为多学科和整体心理健康护理方法的一部分；然而，鉴于参与者确定的许多挫折，这些挫折要么阻碍了他们作为牧师的职业角色，要么挫败了他们的职业角色，随后确定了一些改进措施，以提高牧师事工的效率和效果，从而最大限度地为患者、家属和临床工作人员带来牧养关怀的好处。本文还注意到这项探索性研究对心理健康护理牧师事工、教会组织、医疗机构以及政府责任和进一步研究的一些影响。
