COURSE SUMMARY
D332 MINISTERING IN CRISIS INTERVENTION
FALL, 2006
Instructor: Dr. Roslyn A. Karaban
Enrollment and Restrictions: Open to all students.
Course Description: This course is designed to provide: a theoretical overview of crisis intervention, an understanding of the unique role of ministers and congregations in relation to crisis care, and experiential practice in using crisis counseling skills. Students will present case studies from actual crisis situations in which they served as crisis ministers.
Course Goals:
At the end of this course, students will have:
1. gained a broad-based knowledge of crisis intervention history, definitions and theories.
2. personally examined and come to understand crisis issues in their own lives
and in the lives of those to whom they minister.
3. been introduced to and practiced various methods and skills particularly appropriate to pastoral ministers.
Course Format: Lecture, discussion, case study and practicums
Required Reading:.
Lee Ann Hoff, People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping, 4th edition, 1995
(out of print, available on amazon.com)
Richard K. James and Burl E. Gilliland, Crisis Intervention Strategies, 5th edition, 2005.
Joseph R. Jeter, Jr., Crisis Preaching: Personal and Public, 1998
Roslyn A. Karaban. Crisis Caring: A Guide for Ministering to People in Crisis., 2005.
Assignments/Requirements:
One case study report: an actual case from your ministry or life; this is to be presented classes 7-12
Active participation in discussions and practicums
Three reflection papers: Each reflection paper will be 4-5 pages in length and will be a reaction to/reflection on the reading for one class. At least one paper must be a homily or the design for a church program. These are due throughout the course.
A verbatim report: actual conversation and analysis of one crisis situation in which you were the helper. Due class 6, (October 17) 12-15 pages.
Grading:
Class participation 25%
Case study 25%
Reflection papers or verbatim 50%
Introductions
Course Requirements
What is a Crisis?
Class II Tuesday, September 19
What is a Crisis? Continued
Crisis Intervention: History, Theories, Models, Contexts, and Theology
Required Reading:
Jeter, chapter 1 and 2, pp. 9-20
Hoff, chapters 1 and 2, pp. 3-68
James and Gilliland, chapter 1, pp. 3-30
Karaban, chapter 1, pp. 3-10
Class III Tuesday, September 26
The Minister as Crisis Counselor
The Unique Role of the Minister and the Congregation
Individual and Communal Models
Required Reading:
Hoff, chapter 5, pp. 133-163
James and Gilliland, chapter 14, pp. 647-684
Karaban, chapter 2, pp. 11-20
Class IV Tuesday, October 3
Active Intervention: Qualities, Values, Skills, Principles, Conditions and Strategies
Required Reading:
James and Gilliland, chapters 2 and 3, pp. 31-126
Hoff, chapters 3 and 4, pp. 69-132
Karaban, chapters 3 and 4, pp. 69-132
Classes V Tuesday, October 10
How to do a Case Study: Model
Required Reading:
Jeter, chapter 8, pp. 139-165
Class VI Tuesday, October 19
Worship, Preaching and Pastoral Care
Required Reading:
Karaban, chapter 5, pp. 49-60
Case Study Presentations from the following topics:
Suicide
James and Gilliland, pp. 195-228
Hoff, pp. 167-232
Karaban, pp. 63-74
Sexual Assault, Violence, Battering and Abuse
James and Gilliland, pp. 229-342
Hoff, 233-280
Violence: Individual and Community
Hoff, pp. 281-334
Karaban, pp. 89-99
AIDS
Hoff, pp. 433-456
Disasters: Individual and Community
Hoff, pp. 305-334
Developmental/Transitional/Life changes:
Hoff, pp. 387-432
Addiction
James and Gilliland, pp. 343-419
Loss and Bereavement
James and Gilliland, pp. 420-468
Karaban, pp. 75-87
Burnout
Gilliland and James, pp. 609-646
Community Crisis
Karaban, pp. 101-110
James and Gilliland, pp. 553-585
Class XIII Tuesday, December 5
Summary and Conclusions
Daniel Bagby. Crisis Ministry: A Handbook. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2005.
Howard Clinebell. Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling. (revised and enlarged)
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984.
Chapter 8: “Crisis Care and Counseling,” pp. 183-217
Charles V. Gerkin. Crisis Experience in Modern Life. Nashville: Abingdon Press,
1979.
Larry Kent Graham. Care of Persons, Care of Worlds: A Psychosystems Approach to
Pastoral Care and Counseling. Nashville: Abingdon, 1992.
Maxine Glaz and Jeanne Stevenson Moessner, eds. Women in Travail and Transition:
A New Pastoral Care. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
Judith Lewis Herman. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Lee Ann Hoff. People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping, 4th ed. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Richard K. James and Burl E. Gilliland. Crisis Intervention Strategies, 4th ed., Pacific
Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2001.
Joseph R. Jeter, Jr. Crisis Counseling: Personal and Public. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998.
Eugene Kennedy. Crisis Counseling. New York: Continuum, 1981.
Phyllis Kilbourn, ed. Children in Crisis: A New Commitment. Moravia, CA: MARC
Pub., 1996.
Phyllis Kilbourn, ed. Healing the Children: A Handbook for Ministry to Children Who
Have Suffered Deep Trauma. Moravia, CA: MARC Pub., 1995.
Andrew D. Lester. Pastoral Care with Children in Crisis. Philadelphia: The Westminster
Press, 1985.
Paul M. Mullen and E. Wayne Hill. “A Family Systems Model for Pastoral Care and
Counseling in Times of Crisis.” The Journal of Pastoral Care Fall 1990 (44:3):
250-257.
Thomas C. Oden. Crisis Ministries. New York: Crossroads, 1986.
Frank S. Pittman III. Turning Points: Treating Families in Transition and Crisis. New
York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1987.
Karl A. Slaikeu. Crisis Intervention: A Handbook for Practice and Research, 2nd ed.,
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1990.
Howard W. Stone. Crisis Counseling, rev. ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.
David K. Switzer. “Crisis Intervention and Problem Solving.” In Clinical Handbook of
Pastoral Counseling, vol. 1 (expanded edition), edited by Robert J. Wicks, Richard
D. Parsons, and Donald Capps, 132-161. New York: Paulist Press, 1993.
David K. Switzer. The Minister as Crisis Counselor. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974.
David K. Switzer. Pastoral Care Emergencies: Ministering to People in Crisis. New
York: Paulist Press, 1989.
William van Ornum and John B. Mordock. Crisis Counseling with Children and
Adolescents. New York: Continuum, 1987.
Andrew J. Weaver, John D. Preston and Leigh W. Jerome. Counseling Troubled Teens and Their Families. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.
Edward P. Wimberly. African American Pastoral Care. Nashville: Abingdon
Press, 1991.