Schipani authors new book on spiritual care
Published: August 21, 2024
In July, Wipf and Stock released a new book by Daniel S. Schipani, DrPsy, PhD, bg真人 Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Care and Counseling: Spiritual Care in our Multifaith World: A Primer on Practice and Theory.
Schipani is聽President of the and also serves as Affiliate Professor of Pastoral and聽Spiritual Care at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, and聽San Francisco (California) Theological Seminary. His main writings include聽The Way of Wisdom in Pastoral Counseling聽(2003);听Interfaith Spiritual Care: Understandings and Practices聽(2009);听Multifaith Views in Spiritual Care聽(2013);听Where Are We? Pastoral Environments and Care for Migrants: Intercultural and Interreligious Perspectives聽(2018); and聽Spiritual Caregivers in the Hospital: Windows to Competent Practice聽(2022).
Description
Across the helping professions, and as a compassionate response to human suffering, spiritual care is a special process of companioning. Furthermore, all forms of spiritual care consist of connecting diverse wisdom traditions with care receivers鈥� spiritual resources, longings and struggles in sociocultural and contextually pertinent ways.
This book thoroughly explicates such understanding with interdisciplinary lenses. Its main purpose is to offer a comprehensive response to the new challenges and opportunities for excellent care presented by increasing cultural and religious-spiritual pluralization. Practical guidelines and case studies are connected with models of spirituality; spiritual toxicity and injury; communication strategies for engaging difference; patterns of caregiving work; and profiles of professional competence.
In addition to offering an overarching orientation to the field, the contents of this book invite further reflection, dialogue and collaboration among clinical pastoral education and psychospiritual therapy students and supervisors; chaplains, pastors and other religious caregivers; counselors; psychotherapists; and others interested in spiritual care in our multifaith world. It thus reflects the shared hope and, indeed, the expectation that spiritual care theory and practice across traditions and disciplines will continue to be enhanced in the days ahead.
Endorsements
鈥淎 vital contribution that places spirit at the very center of spiritual care. Schipani鈥檚 deeply informed and inclusive perspective is well suited to an increasingly multifaith world. He provides clear and compelling guidance to those involved in both interreligious and intrareligious care. A pleasure to read, this book is filled with rich clinical stories as well as much needed attention to individual and sociopolitical forms of toxic spirituality.鈥�
鈥� Kenneth I. Pargament, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Bowling Green State University
鈥淚 have known Daniel Schipani as a friend and colleague for years, and the passion I have experienced in conversations with him on intercultural pastoral care and spiritual care leaps from these pages. It was great to discover his analysis of SIPCC in the last chapter of the book. I would look at our organization a bit more critically, but I take his comments as encouragement to embrace the path he sets before us.鈥�
鈥� Dominiek Lootens, President, Society for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling
鈥淕iven the religious and cultural pluralism of settings for spiritual care today, this book is an indispensable guide. Daniel Schipani brings together the wisdom of long international experience as a teacher and practitioner, weaving together illuminating case examples with carefully structured theological and clinical proposals for sensitive multifaith care. Both comprehensive and accessible, this will be an important textbook for beginning chaplains and pastoral counselors, and, as well, an up-to-the-minute resource for seasoned caregivers.鈥�
鈥� Pamela Cooper-White, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion, Union Theological Seminary
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