The female chaplain's contributions to breast cancer management.
Maintains that a female chaplain's ministry to women breast cancer patients holds unique qualities because of the chaplain's ease of achieving physical and psychological identification with the mastectomy patient. Notes particularly how a female chaplain can provide a relationship for affirmation of self-esteem, confession, and repentance. Illustrates with actual cases ways the female chaplain can share in the feminine identity crisis, participate in the struggle to claim God-given dignity and worth, and be genuinely present for healing the resentment and guilt often accompanying the mastectomy patient's loss.
D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000523:psychology*; D013781:Texas