Edited by Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, BCJC
and Rev. Willard W. C. Ashley Sr., DMin, DH
The first comprehensive resource for
pastoral care
in the face of disaster—a vital
resource for clergy, seminarians,
pastoral counselors and
caregivers of all faith traditions.
This essential resource for clergy and
caregivers integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care
with the unique challenges of disaster response on community,
regional and national levels.
Offering the latest theological
perspectives and tools, along with basic theory and skills from
the best disaster response texts, research and concepts, the
contributors to this resource are innovators in their fields
and represent Christianity, Judaism, Islam and more.
Exploring how spiritual care changes
following a disaster, and including a comprehensive explanation
of a disaster’s lifecycle, this is the definitive
guidebook for counseling not only the victims of disaster but
also the clergy and caregivers who are called to service in the
wake of crisis.
Contributors
Rev. Lloyd George Abrams, DMin • Imam
Ummi Nur Allene Ali • Rev. Willard W. C. Ashley Sr., DMin,
DH • Chaplain Therese M. Becker, MA, MDiv • Rev.
David Billings, DMin • Rev. Greg Bodin, BCC, MDiv •
Rabbi Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas, BCJC • Rev. Thomas H.
Davis Jr. • Kevin L. Ellers, DMin • Rev. George
Handzo, BCC • Imam Yusuf Hasan, BCC • Imam Muhammad
Hatim, PhD, DMin • Rev. Earl E. Johnson, MDiv, BCC •
Rev. Lorraine Jones, MDiv • John D. Kinsel, MS, LPCC
• Rev. Canon William V. Livingston, MDiv, MEd • Rev.
Charles R. Lorrain, DMin • Rev. Kevin Massey, BCC •
Rabbi Myrna Matsa, DMin • Pamela Norris Norwood, LCSW
• Rev. Naomi Paget, DMin, BCC, BCETS • Rev. Rebeca
Radillo, DMin • Tanya Pagán Raggio, MD, MPH, FAAP
• Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, BCJC • Rev. John A.
Robinson Jr., MDiv • Roberta L. Samet, LCSW • Rev.
Arthur Schmidt, DMin, BCC • Timothy G. Serban, MA, BCC
• Rev. Frederick J. Streets, MDiv, MSW, DSW, DD, LICSW
• Rev. Julie Taylor, MDiv, CTR • Cheryl Guidry Tyiska
• Rev. Beverly Wallace, PhD • Rev. John C. Wilson,
PhD
“Timely, compelling and
valuable…. Provides congregational clergy and pastoral
care professionals with the skill and wisdom needed to sustain
and support their communities when disaster strikes.”
—Rabbi
Dayle A. Friedman, editor, Jewish Pastoral Care:
A Practical Handbook
from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
“Draws on a wealth of experience
… presents a compassionate, comprehensive mandate to
prepare for spiritual care after a disaster and an abundance of
wisdom for our response to ordinary crises.”
—Rev.
Herbert Anderson, PhD, co-author, All Our Losses,
All Our Griefs: Resources of
Pastoral Care
“A priceless compendium of realistic
scenarios and needs, and of corresponding resources and
personal and professional gifts or skills that can guide our
preparations to serve most effectively.”
—Rev.
Thomas G. Landry, III, former
executive director,
National Association of Catholic
Chaplains
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, BCJC, is chairman emeritus and a founder of Disaster
Chaplaincy Services, Inc., a partnership program within the
American Red Cross in Greater New York. He is the associate
executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis
overseeing the Jack D. Weiler Chaplaincy Program and a past
president of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains. He
was the first to set up American Red Cross spiritual care
provisions in New York City after 9/11. He has taught
extensively on disaster spiritual care and was the primary
researcher for the only published peer-review research on the
impact of disasters on spiritual care providers.
Rev. Willard W. C. Ashley Sr., DMin, DH, a psychotherapist, is the founder and senior
pastor of the Abundant Joy Community Church in Jersey City, New
Jersey. He was project director for Care for the Caregivers
Interfaith Program, the largest clergy resiliency program in
the United States, created to assist caregivers in New York
after 9/11. He also serves as a consultant on disaster recovery
and clergy self-care to congregations and Fortune 100
companies; and is a board member of Disaster Chaplaincy
Services. Ashley is an ordained minister in the National
Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.; Disciples of Christ; and the
American Baptist Churches, USA.
