Robert H. Albers - Ministry with persons with mental illness and their families

Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families

Robert H. Albers, William H. Meller,

Steven D. Thurber, Editors

Fortress Press

Minneapolis

MINISTRY WITH PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND THEIR FAMILIES

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ministry with persons with mental illness and their families / Robert H. Albers, William H. Meller, Steven D. Thurber, editors.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4154-1714-2 (eBook edition)

1. Church work with the mentally ill. 2. Mentally illPastoral counseling of. 3. Pastoral psychology. I. Albers, Robert H. II. Meller, William. III. Thurber, Steven D.

BV4461.M56 2012

259.42dc23

2011042713

Contents

Robert H. Albers

William H. Meller / Robert H. Albers

Thomas Mackenzie / Christie Cozad Neuger

Stephen Olson / Joretta L. Marshall

Donald W. Black / Janet Ramsey

Sheila Specker / Robert H. Albers

William Yates / Diana Thierry

Steven D. Thurber / Hollie Holt-Woehl

Steven D. Thurber / William Sheehan / Lawrence M. Pray

Ruth Marie Thomson / Elayne Lipp

William H. Meller / Sarah J. Meller

Editors and Contributors

Editors

Robert H. Albers received his MDiv from Wartburg Theological Seminary and PhD from the Southern California School of Theology in Claremont. The initial part of his career was as a parish pastor, and for the past three decades he has taught pastoral theology. His current position is as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Pastoral Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He has published numerous books and articles; his book Shame: A Faith Perspective (1995) received an award from the Academy of Pastoral Clergy as one of the top ten books for pastors published that year. He was also editor of The Journal of Ministry in Addiction and Recovery from 1993 to 2000.

William H. Meller , MD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota and has served as cocourse director of Ministry to the Mentally Ill at Luther Seminary. He has published extensively in the areas of affective disorder and consultation psychiatry. He is president of the Itasca Psychosomatic Research Society. His daughter, Sarah J. Meller , who assisted in writing the afterword on psychopharmacology, does neuroscience research at Rockefeller University and has served as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholar at Stony Brook University.

Steven D. Thurber received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin with additional postdoctoral training in child development and early interventions from the University of Minnesota. He graduated from the postdoctoral training program in pediatric psychology from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He has been an academician (Boise State University and University of California, San Francisco), clinical director of two psychiatric hospitals, and is currently child psychologist in a youth partial hospitalization program at Woodland Centers in Willmar, Minnesota. His published research has been in the areas of autism, developmental psychopathology, and measurement. He is associate editor of Archives of Assessment Psychology.

Contributors

Donald W. Black is professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and is listed in Best Doctors in America. He has authored more than three hundred publications, including, Bad Boys, Bad MenConfronting Antisocial Personality Disorder (1999).

Hollie Holt-Woehl is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), specializing in ministry to people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities. She is an intentional interim pastor in the Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA and an adjunct professor at Luther Seminary, St. Paul.

Elayne Lipp is a retired pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). She served an inner-city parish in Minneapolis for seventeen years. She has both professional and personal experience with Alzheimers disease. She is a guest lecturer at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, in pastoral care.

Thomas Mackenzie , MD, is currently the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. He is also the vice chair for education and the program director of psychiatry residency and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Joretta L. Marshall is an ordained United Methodist clergywoman from the Rocky Mountain Conference. She teaches at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, where she shares a home with her family. She is author of Counseling Lesbian Partners and How Can I Forgive? as well as of numerous other articles and publications.

Sarah J. Meller graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College and has several awards for academic excellence. She is currently a research assistant in the Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Laboratory at Rockefeller University, directed by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard.

Christie Cozad Neuger has served as professor of pastoral care at Princeton Theological Seminary, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and Brite Divinity School. She is currently a senior scholar and founding director of the Institute for the Support of Pastoral Ministries at United Theological Seminary. Besides numerous articles and chapters, she has published four books.

Stephen Olson, MD, is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, where he is director of the Schizophrenia Specialty Clinic, specializing in schizophrenia and related disorders, including psychopharmacology, phenomenology, treatment-resistant psychosis, and mood disorders. He received his MD from the University of Minnesota and did his residency in psychiatry at the University of Iowa.

Lawrence M. Pray is the senior pastoral scholar at Methodist Healthcare, in Memphis, Tennessee. He is coauthor of Leading Causes of Life (2004) and author of Journey of a Diabetic (1982). His writing addresses the issues of healing and living with chronic disease. He is ordained in the United Church of Christ and lives in Minneapolis.

Janet Ramsey is professor emeritus of congregational care and ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul. A pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a diplomat in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, her most recent book, Spiritual Resiliency and Aging: Hope, Relationality, and the Creative Self, was published in 2011.

William Sheehan , MD, is a psychiatrist currently leading a neurodevelopmental disorders program in Willmar, Minnesota. His special interests are evolutionary psychiatry, neurodevelopment (especially autism), applied neuroscience, nutritional and metabolic disorders in mental illnesses, traumatic brain injury, and functional neuroimaging.