Police Chaplain: Mental Health & God
I am going to challenge more than a few of you with this blog but I do so with only the best intentions. As a former pastor and missionary, my background in approaching police chaplaincy was fixed on the "spiritual" health of our police officers. In hindsight it should have been on the complete wellness of the officer and their family. It is the same comment I would make to those who insist on calling "holistic health" the go-to phraseology when it comes to wellness. Holistic health usually leaves absolutely no room for spiritual health. Similarly, mental health professionals often exclude the spiritual component when it comes to offering resources to our officers. I am not even sure it is intentional but rather an oversight caused by a lack of knowledge. The same lack of knowledge clergy often have when it comes to mental health. Now that I have stepped on all the toes I needed to step on, let me make my main point. While each potential resource competes for the at...