Chaplain

Mental illness is a condition that impacts many Americans today. It affects an individuals thinking, feelings, or behaviors and it may also affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis. The treatment for mental illness is drug therapy according to diagnosis and mental health counseling. In my mental health clinical I assess my patient using therapeutic communication to get a health history, personal history, mental status, the reason they are there, mood, speech…

Summary: Macleod shared the importance of human rights and cultural diversity. He argues that a reasonably comprehensive doctrine of universal human rights can be squared with what is known about the diversity of cultural beliefs and practices. Also, he developed the normatively persuasive arguments for human rights. Relevance to Research Question: Although the article wasn't as much explicit, it was very helpful to me because it provides a clear statement of human rights and cultural diversity…

Existential Crisis or Enlightenment? Does human existence hold any greater meaning? In the 1946 novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, the protagonist and narrator, Meursault, a french man detached and estranged from humanity questions just that. In the first part, the story starts in the setting of the town of Algiers in 1940s French occupied Algeria. It begins with the death of his mother, to which Meursault does not feel much towards. He returns from the vigil held at the home that his…

- Escort to the chain of command, a chaplain, a behavioral health professional, or primary care provider. TACOM LCMC SARC office strives to also help Army leaders at all levels learn to be engaged in fostering an environment to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health care.…

Pastoral Formation Learning Goal-To learn the difference between Chaplain/Pastor’s response to different faith beliefs or disbeliefs than that of Protestant Christians. Addressed this Goal- Within the first goal I have learned that the Catholic patients use the Lord’s prayer for comfort. The difference here is that within my Protestant faith we recite the whole prayer without stopping and the Catholic community stops after “… deliver us from evil” then after another section goes on to, “Thine…

connection. One connection can be found in James 5:14 “is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.” The healing hospitals employ this idea in that they provide chaplains and professional staff to help in the healing process. God tells His people to care for the sick and wounded. Healing hospitals put patients first to heal and care for them. Conclusion In the world of healthcare the environment where the…

In today’s environment, the Army needs leaders who can lead a complex organization, through complex issues, to get at a complex problem that may not have a right answer. Strategic leaders are asked to lead in an environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. T. Owen Jacobs wrote about these in Strategic Leadership; The Competitive Edge and thus coined the term VUCA. “I don’t think I am exaggerating when I say that we face the most daunting strategic environment in generations.”…

James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments,” which appeared half of a decade after Jefferson’s “Bill for establishing Religious Freedom,” is an expressive piece defending what he believes is necessary for religious freedom. This article was drafted as a protestation against “[a] bill establishing a provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion,” the goal of which Madison argues is a misuse of governmental power. This remonstrance by Madison is dated June 20, 1785…

Magistrate, his lawyer and the chaplain who visits him in prison that he does not believe in God. This makes it hard for him since the court honors God by using a bible as their system to swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. He is found guilty and receives a heavy punishment as execution. Meursault doesn’t change one bit throughout the story and his beliefs stay the same as finding life meaningless. His beliefs are made clear at the end when the chaplain is forcing his religion on…

I interviewed my father, who works full time as a chaplain for Memorial Herman hospital, for the workplace harassment assessment. Knowing that he worked for them for 8 years, I figured he had seen some signs/acts of workplace harassment, I was right. Below are some questions I asked to get a full assessment of what he had seen and how he handled it. First I asked, “Can you describe a time when you or someone you know had experienced sexual harassment or bullying in the workplace?” He…