title: What to communicate: a new chapter in pastoral care and counseling?
abstract: Evaluates the dominant what to be focus on ministry in the history of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and proposes a what to communicate focus as a better fit in accommodating current understandings of what is required "to be of help." Differentiates between three different roles in pastoral communication--representative, reflective, and reconstructive--in analyzing the linguistic structure of pastoral conversations, highlighting the distinctly pastoral function of meaning-making in reconstructive discourse.
authors.affiliation: Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: VanKatwyk
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000193:education*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012380:Role