| Keeping and sharing: confidentiality in ministry. | |
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PMID: 16733955 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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What ethical norms regarding confidentiality are applied by ministers in their professional practice? In this essay conventional ethical assumptions about confidentiality in ministry, taken from the work of Gaylord Noyce, are compared with the experiences, attitudes, and expectations of ordered and lay members of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada in two Canadian regions. The similarities and differences are then compared and contrasted with more contemporary theories. The study concludes that most people in the two denominations studied borrowed their ethical norms from the counseling context. Most subjects thought of confidentiality in terms of the beneficial therapeutic effects of keeping the secrets but they also articulated alternative theological grounds for maintaining confidences. Different expectations about how information is to be handled also reveal deeper theological and ecclesiological conflicts over the appropriateness of debriefing with members of the congregation. Differences between rural and urban congregations were revealed in the example of public prayer as an occasion for the breaking of a confidence. |
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Authors:
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Christopher Lind |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The journal of pastoral care & counseling : JPCC Volume: 60 ISSN: 1542-3050 ISO Abbreviation: J Pastoral Care Counsel Publication Date: 2006 Spring-Summer |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2006-05-31 Completed Date: 2006-06-27 Revised Date: 2006-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 101144384 Medline TA: J Pastoral Care Counsel Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 117-31 Citation Subset: H |
Affiliation:
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Toronto School of Theology, 4 7 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C3. |
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Canada Clergy / ethics* Confidentiality / ethics* Humans |
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