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| Clergy as mental health service providers to older adults | | Author(s) | Joseph G Pickard, Baorong Guo |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 5, September 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp 615-624 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ministers of religion ; Pastoral care ; Mental disorder ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older people tend to seek help for emotional problems from clergy at greater rates than they do from other sources. However, their help-seeking from clergy is largely understated. The authors used data from the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Demonstration Project to examine patterns of help-seeking from religious leaders for a sample of 317 people aged 65+ in Saint Louis County, Missouri. The study was framed within the Behavioral Model of Health Services Utilization. Results of hierarchical logistic regression analyses indicated that having less social support and greater frequency of attendance at religious services was related to help-seeking from clergy for this sample, while other predisposing, enabling, need and religiosity variables were not found to be related to help-seeking from clergy. Discussion focuses on the need to for mental health workers to be aware of the important role that clergy play in service provision and to find ways to leverage knowledge and skills to enhance provider-clergy relationships in order to improve services that older people receive. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081124238 A |
| Classmark | XR: OW: E: 7T |
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