Abstract
This chapter explores the roles of Nonparish clergy in the mental health system. In the mental health system, not much attention is given to the services produced by clergy as religion is regarded as a negative influence on mental health. This chapter describes three contexts outside the traditional parish setting in which clergy provide mental health services. These settings include ministry as chaplains in psychiatric inpatient facilities, as pastoral counselors in church-based or community centers, and as mental health care brokers who mobilize communication between parish clergy, mental professionals, and consumers. Under this, it takes a look at four contributions which chaplains make as part of psychiatric inpatient treatment teams—spiritual assessments, responses to and uses of religious psychological material, interactions with clinical staff members, and liaisons with communities of faith. This chapter calls for more research in order to demonstrate that clergy provide competent and helpful services and that these services are clinically so efficacious that the broader system cannot afford to ignore them.
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