title: The special ministry in long term care.
abstract: Ministers to mentally ill, chemically dependent, physically handicapped, elderly, or retarded persons in long term care must examine their own prejudices, guilt, fears, and pain. Only then can they see each patient as an individual who must be brought to self-love.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002835:Christianity; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010327:Pastoral Care; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders