Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and Chaplain's Handbook - Hardcover

Rev. Nancy K. Anderson, ACPE Supervisor, is director of spiritual care at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and is regional codirector of the Eastern Region of ACPE. She is an ordained United Methodist clergy.

Rev. Willard W. C. Ashley Sr., MDiv, DMin, DH, a frequent speaker on the topics of leadership development, clergy resiliency and interfaith dialogue, is acting dean and associate professor of practical theology at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He was the interim pastor at Union Baptist Church in Montclair, New Jersey, and is the founding pastor of Abundant Joy Community Church in Jersey City, New Jersey. He also serves as a consultant on disaster recovery and clergy self-care to congregations and Fortune 100 companies. He is author of Learning to Lead: Lessons in Leadership for People of Faith and coeditor of Disaster Spiritual Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy (SkyLight Paths).

Dr. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv, is a research scholar at the Hastings Center, an independent, nonprofit bioethics research institute located in Garrison, New York. Her research and teaching focuses on health care ethics, related topics in public health ethics and in human rights, and ethics education for health care professionals, including chaplains. Dr. Berlinger is the project director for the forthcoming revision of the
Hastings Center guidelines on end-of-life care and has a special interest in ethical issues related to cancer as a chronic illness. She teaches health care ethics to graduate students at the Yale School of Nursing. She serves on the Bioethics Committee at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, and on the Board of Directors of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition. Dr. Berlinger is the author of After Harm: Medical Error and
the Ethics of Forgiveness and coauthor of "Ethical Dilemmas and Spiritual Care Near the End of Life," in Living with Grief: Spirituality and End-of-Life Care.