The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving: Foundations for Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy offers a powerful new paradigm for providing compassionate, effective, professional chaplaincy. Consistently using The Discipline as the guide and infrastructure for your care can help you support patients in ways tailored for individual persons and supply a way to perceive their unique, observable, measurable differences. This can also help you communicate your unique skills and contributions to other members of your respective health care teams and to hospital leadership. In addition to giving you the full, practical details of The Discipline itself, this unique volume includes case studies, personal experiences, helpful figures and charts, and suggestions dealing with patients experiencing unique health care challenges, including adults living with cystic fibrosis and violent victims of violence. The wise advice and practical suggestions in this book will help you recognize and document the solid value of your hospital ministry.