title: The Discipline for doing spiritual care: variations on a theme.
abstract: This article describes the writers introduction to The Discipline and his decision to utilize selected aspects of it in direct care and in an educational milieu. The first section describes adaptation of the Profile (Concepts of Holy, Meaning, Hope, and Community) in the writer's work with addicted persons on a Recovery Center. The second section presents the employment of this Profile as a way to introduce CPE interns to the art of pastoral assessment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pastoral Care, Christian Hospital Northeast-Northwest, 11133 Dunn Road, St. Louis, MO 63136, USA. JDD7835@bjc.org
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Daugherty
mesh_terms: D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D008602:Mental Healing / Q000523:psychology*; D008923:Missouri; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012068:Religion and Medicine