Worship as a Practice of Care: Rural Mental Illness and Suicide

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Notes

Centers for Disease Control, “Violence Prevention: Suicide,” https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/statistics/.

Courtney Cantrell, Sarah Valley-Gray, and Ralph E. Cash, “Suicide in Rural Areas: Risk Factors and Prevention,” in Rural Mental Health: Issues, Policies, and Best Practices, ed. K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, and Jackson P. Rainer (New York, NY: Springer, 2012).

Cynthia A. Fontanella et al., “Widening Rural-Urban Disparities in Youth Suicides, United States, 2006–2010,” JAMA Pediatrics 169, no. 5 (2015), http://jamanetwork.com/pdfaccess.ashx?url=/data/journals/peds/933858/.

Carly E. McCord et al., “Addressing Mental Health Issues in Rural Areas,” in Rural Populations and Health: Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions, ed. Richard A. Crosby, Robin C. Vanderpool, and Monica L Wendel (Somerset, NJ: Wiley, 2012).

Larry Kent Graham, Care of Persons, Care of Worlds: A Psychosystems Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1992).

For more discussion of ministry and depression and other mental illnesses, see Robert H. Albers, William Meller, and Steven D. Thurber, Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012); Howard Stone, Depression and Hope (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998); Binford Winston Gilbert, The Pastoral Care of Depression: A Guidebook (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Pastoral Press, 1998); Susan J. Dunlap, Counseling Depressed Women (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997); R. Lanny Hunter and Victor L. Hunter, What Your Doctor & Your Pastor Want You to Know About Depression (St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2004).

CDC website (see n. 1); Suicide Prevention Resource Center.

Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora, Rural Communities: Legacy and Change (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012).

Jeanne M. Hoeft, L. Shannon Jung, and Joretta L. Marshall, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013).

McCord et al., “Addressing Mental Health Issues” (see n. 4).

Ibid.

Ibid.

Herbert Anderson and Edward Foley, Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine, 1st ed. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1998).

Margaret Zipse Kornfeld and Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute, Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities (New York: Continuum, 1998).

John Swinton, Resurrecting the Person: Friendship and the Care of People with Mental Health Problems (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2000).

Anderson and Foley, Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals, ix.

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Jeanne M. Hoeft

Jeanne M. Hoeft is academic dean, associate professor of pastoral theology and care, and the Franklin and Louise Cole Associate Professor in Town and Country Ministries at the United Methodist Saint Paul School of Theology, Overland Park, Kansas.