Academic Psychiatry and the Clergy: An Analysis of Ministerial Referrals

Mobley, Mary F.; Katz, Edward K.; Elkins, Ralph L.

doi:10.1176/ps.36.1.79

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“…More than half the articles gave examples of collaboration between clergy members and mental health professionals, and several articles described particular collaborative programs (Pargament et al, 1991;Plante, 1999). Several studies surveyed clergy and mental health professionals (Edwards, Lim, McMinn, & Dominguez, 1999;McMinn, Chaddock, Edwards, Lim, & Campbell, 1998;O'Malley, Gearhart, & Becker, 1984) or just clergy (Kloos, Homeffer, &Moore, 1995;Mannon & Crawford, 1996;Mobley, Katz, & Elkins, 1985;Mollica, Streets, Boscarino, & Redlich, 1986;Sorgaard & Sorensen, 1996) regarding their collaborative and referral practices.…”

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Collaboration Between Clergy and Mental Health Professionals: A Review of Professional Health Care Journals From 1980 Through 1999

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Counseling and Values

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Given the frontline role of community clergy in mental health care, this study examined how collaboration with clergy was viewed by mental health and other health professionals outside of the religious community. Searches of health care journals on Medline and PsyclNFO yielded 44 articles from nonreligious journals from 1980 through 1999 that specifically addressed collaboration between clergy and mental health professionals. Seven themes were identified through content analysis, including the benefits of collaboration to each profession, the need to increase the clergy's knowledge about mental heath, and the importance of referrals. Discussion about interdisciplinary referrals significantly increased over time, r, (1, N = 44) = .31, p < .05).lergy in our society function as frontline mental health workers. Numerous studies over the past 40 years have demonstrated that

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