Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other's Keeper

by Jack H Bloom

Overview

A collection of caregiving tools combining the values of Jewish tradition and self-relationsuseful for practitioners of ANY faith!

Self-relations, a powerful framework for doing respectful and humane caregiving for oneself and for others is here brought into relationship with Jewish thought.

Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other’s Keeper is an extensive resource for caregiving tools and approaches. Using Jewish tradition and Self-Relations as take-off points, experts from many fields provide insightful perspectives and effective strategies for caregiving.

In the language of self-relations each of us is not referred to as a Self. Instead, each of us is more accurately described as a relationship between selvesrelationship is the basic psychological and religious unit! Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other’s Keeper sensitively centers on relationships and the healing process, using the understanding that to spark healing in others, a loving, respectful relationship must first be present between every aspect of our selves. Thirty-six categories of caregiving are comprehensively presented, allowing its use as a helpful resource for any clergy considering any of the included topics. Each author’s personal reflections, and personal experiences using care tools clearly illustrate how love-respect relationships within oneself can transcend into effective care for others.

Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other’s Keeper provides helpful tools and explores:

• the use of language as a relational care tool
  
• time management for optimum performance for oneself and for others
  
• compassion fatigue, the need for self-care, and nurturing your own spiritual and psychological development
  
• purposeful visiting as a sacred task
  
• silence as an important part of spiritual care
  
• the profound difference made in lives through relational listening
  
• music as sacred powera communion between humans and the Divine
  
• chanting as an intimate expression of the soul
  
• creative ritual in relational healing
  
• spontaneous prayer, and its place in relational care
  
• relational care with other faiths inside and outside of the community
  
• care for those going through divorce
  
• care when a pregnancy is unwelcome
  
• relational care for sexual orientation and gender identity issues
  
• successful caring for those who don’t care about you
  
• dealing with traumatic loss
  
• care for those who have sinned sexually
  
• fragile relationships
  
• care with the healthy aging
  
• relational care and retired clergy
  
• care for those traumatized by sexual abuse
  
• care for the cognitively impaired, mentally ill, and developmentally disabled
  
• care for the final moments of life
  
• care for the sick and dying
  
• care within the grieving process

Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other’s Keeper is practical, insightful reading for clergy and caregivers of all denominations, educators, students, and lay people who care about clergy and their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136431432
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	482
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jack H Bloom

Table of Contents

• About the Editor
  
• Contributors
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• A Guide for the Reader (Jack H Bloom)
  
• THE ABCS OF JEWISH RELATIONAL CARE
  
• 1. Premises of Jewish Relational Care (Jack H Bloom)
  
• 2. Language As a Relational Tool: Using Your Mouth with Your Head? (Jack H Bloom)
  
• CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER’S RELATIONAL SELF
  
• 3. Taking Care of Ourselves: It’s About Time! (David J. Zucker)
  
• 4. Managing Compassion Fatigue (David J. Stern)
  
• 5. Maintaining Balance: The Kabbalah As a Resource (Susan Gulack)
  
• HEALING MUSES FOR JEWISH RELATIONAL CARE
  
• 6. The Muse of Visiting (David J. Zucker and Bonita E Taylor)
  
• 7. The Muse of Silence (Jeffery M. Silberman)
  
• 8. The Muse of Relational Listening (Samuel Chiel)
  
• 9. The Muse of Music and Song (Shira Stern)
  
• 10. The Muse of Chanting (Bonita E Taylor)
  
• 11. The Muse of Creative Ritual for Relational Healing (Marcia Cohn Spiegel)
  
• 12. The Muse of Spontaneous Prayer for All the [TzelemÛN’shamah] Relationships (Charles P. Rabinowitz)
  
• HOW SPACIOUS IS OUR TENT?
  
• 13. Caring for the Non-Jews Within Our Community (Gordon M. Freeman and Stuart Kelman)
  
• 14. Caring for Non-Jews Outside Our Community (Judith B. Edelstein)
  
• 15. What We Gentiles Need in Jewish Relational Care: A Minister’s Perspective (Richard L. Rush)
  
• WHEN LIFE CHALLENGES OUR HUMAN BEING
  
• 16. Caring for and Supporting Those Going Through Divorce (Judith Levitan)
  
• 17. When a Pregnancy Is Unwelcome (Bonnie Margulis and Douglas Maben)
  
• 18. Caring for Those Whose Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Vary (Nancy H. Wiener)
  
• JEWISH RELATIONAL CARE WHEN THE RELATIONSHIP IS FRAGILE
  
• 19. Relating to and Caring for Those Who Don’t Care About You (Stephen Bayar)
  
• 20. Blessing Those We Have Trouble Blessing (Jack H Bloom)
  
• 21. A Story of Brokenness and Healing: The Relationship of Rabbi and Congregant (Rena Halpern Kieval and Dan Ornstein)
  
• 22. T’Shuvah in Sexual Violations with Direct Implications for Other Situations: Relational Care for Those Who Have Sinned and Wish to Return (Jack H Bloom)
  
• 23. Jewish Relational Thinking and a Difficult Text: Amalek and Us (Jack H. Bloom)
  
• JEWISH RELATIONAL CARE IN THE GOLDEN YEARS
  
• 24. Jewish Relational Care with the Healthy Aging (Richard F. Address)
  
• 25. Jewish Relational Care and Retired Clergy (Jack H Bloom)
  
• JEWISH RELATIONAL CARE WITH THE TRAUMATIZED
  
• 26. There and Back AgainJourney into the Death Zone: Jewish Relational Care and Disabilities (Judith Z. Abrams)
  
• 27. When the Rabbi Needs Care (Andrew R. Sklarz)
  
• 28. Caring for Those Violated by Child Sexual Abuse and Incest (Rachel Lev)
  
• JEWISH RELATIONAL CARE WITH THE IMPAIRED
  
• 29. Relating Gently and Wisely with the Cognitively Impaired (Cary Kozberg)
  
• 30. Caring for the Mentally Ill (Judith Brazen)
  
• 31. Caring for the Institutionalized Developmentally Disabled (Bernie Robinson)
  
• JEWISH RELATIONAL CARE AT LIFE’S END
  
• 32. Relating to the Sick and Dying (Steven Moss)
  
• 33. The Vidui: Jewish Relational Care for the Final Moments of Life (Alison Jordan and Stuart Kelman)
  
• 34. Jewish Relational Care with the Grieving (Mel Glazer)
  
• Healing Notes. Frames for Blessing All Selves As [Breath-TakingÛModels of Divinity] (Jack H Bloom)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included