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Themes that challenge pastoral psychology

Blanches de Paula [1]

Abstract

This article elucidates some indications about themes that need deeper exploration in pastoral psychology in dialogue with Theology. It goes into daily living themes that strengthen the necessity for a theological pastoral reflection about people’s life in society. It supplies aids for discussions that can be narrowed especially through pastoral counseling.

Keywords

Pastoral psychology – Daily living – pastoral care

Blanches de Paula is Methodist pastor, student of the Program on Religious Sciences of the Methodist University of Sao Paulo and professor of the Faculty of Theology of the Methodist University of São Paulo

[1]	Article presented at the 2nd symposium of the Latin American Pastoral Psychology Group, which took place from June 2 thru 6, 2006 in São Bernardo do Campo, SP.