PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: POIMENICS (PASTORAL CARE AND COUNSELING)
PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: POIMENICS (PASTORAL CARE AND COUNSELING)
Assistant Professor Annette Haußmann PhD
Seminary/Department of Theology of Heidelberg University
Chair of Practical Theology / Poimenics (Pastoral Care and Counseling)
Mailing Address: Kisselgasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Visiting Address: Karlstraße 16 (room 404), 69117 Heidelberg
Telephone: 06221-543323
E-mail: annette.haussmann@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
Office hours: By appointment
CLASSES
Winter semester 2023: Seelsorge und Ethik, Di 11-13 Uhr, Kisselgasse TS, ÜR I
CURRENT/ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Pastoral Care during the covid-19 pandemic:
Since 2020, the pandemic has lead to serious societal changes, by which pastoral care in its various fields has been strongly affected. On the one hand, it could not take place as usual due to social distancing and changed institutional guidelines. On the other hand, however, in many places, new ideas and approaches to pastoral care have emerged that have strengthened and supported people in these difficult times. This implicated the great importance of pastoral and diaconal forms of support are of great importance, particularly in times of crisis – revealing the important task pastoral care is fulfilling socially in these times.
In order describe and reflect in more detail on the challenges, changes and prerequisites of pastoral care in times of crisis, we conducted a survey of pastoral carers in Germany in spring of 2020 (at the end of the first lockdown in Germany) and in winter 2020/21 (during the second lockdown). The study intends to contribute to the perception and strengthening of pastoral carers in their work, and to further improve approaches to the perception of pastoral/spiritual care. Another qualitative study examines the self-perception of hospital chaplains within the health care system and their perception of the covid-19 crisis.
The study results are being analyzed and published:
ANNETTE HAUßMANN und BIRTHE FRITZ, Pastoral Care during COVID-19-Crisis - First Results, November 2020, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15794.02242 , preprint.
Forthcoming:
ANNETTE HAUßMANN und BIRTHE FRITZ, Challenges for Pastoral Care in times of COVID-19: Encounters, media use, topics, and professionals needs. A cross-sectional study in Germany, Journal of Health and Social Care Chaplaincy (HSCC). (under review)
ANNETTE HAUßMANN und BIRTHE FRITZ, COVID und Seelsorge in: Pastoraltheologie (2021). (in preparations)
- Digital communication and pastoral care:
Digitization and digital forms of interactions are shaping our communication culture more than ever. These developments are very relevant for pastoral care, as they open up new forms of encounter and mutual care that do not depend on physical encounters. Pastoral care takes place in various ways in digital formats, whose diverse forms and their individual characteristics we must differentiate. We must further perceive both public pastoral care on platforms such as YouTube or Instagram and anonymized and protected communication through specific pastoral care platforms (e.g. Telefonseelsorge, apps like the “Krisenkompass der Telefonseelsorge”) as innovations. There needs to be appreciation for digital forms of pastoral care, especially in view of the considerable effort involved in digital communication, and further reflection on the form, reach, and opportunities of digital pastoral care services.
ANNETTE HAUßMANN, CAROLINE TESCHMER, CHRISTOPH WIESINGER and GOLDE WISSNER: Seelsorge und digitale Kommunikation. Dynamiken sozialer Interaktion und ihre Auswirkungen für die Poimenik, in: Wege zum Menschen 73 (2021), Heft 1, 5–18.
ANNETTE HAUßMANN: Die Kraft der Bilder. Visuelle Kommunikation und ihre Potenziale für Spiritual Care und Seelsorge, in Spiritual Care (2021), aop, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/spircare-2021-0037
- Conference „Integrative pastoral care“:
The term „integrative“ represents the concern to strengthen pastoral care as a plural phenomenon due its diverse approaches. Today, multifaceted pastoral care, rich in theory and methods, that is oriented towards the individual and the respective situation, is necessary and helpful. This diversity has long been visible in the practical fields of pastoral care and increasingly also in the study of pastoral care. In its theoretical foundation, pastoral care is also becoming increasingly pluralistic: It integrates a variety of schools and methods of psychotherapy, such as depth psychology, systemic therapy, gestalt therapy, conversational techniques from humanistic therapy, but also from cognitive behavioral therapy. These developments correspond with integration tendencies within psychology and psychotherapy, but also with the differentiation of pastoral fields of work and society as a whole. But what is the unifying element of all this plurality and where is the theological unity of the many approaches to pastoral care? How can the integration of different poimenical concerns and basic psychological assumptions succeed? Is there any profit in that at all? What distinguishes integration from plurality? And what are the challenges to be considered? Do pastoral counselors have to master all concepts of therapy and pastoral care? A digital symposium was held on March 12-13, 2021.
For spring 2022, a publication of the symposium contributions is planned as a special issue of the journal Wege zum Menschen. Verlinkung Dokument zur Tagung.
- Pastoral care for mental illness in dialogue with psychotherapy:
In the face of mental illness, pastoral care is constantly challenged to reflect on and adapt its concepts and practical options of support. For this, a dialogue with the different schools of psychotherapy is important. It is important to continue the discourse especially with the currently popular and yet in pastoral care research only marginally discussed cognitive behavioral therapy. Connections between religiosity/spirituality and mental disorders is of particular interest.
ZfS-Fachtag “Was ist denn schon normal” (9.10.2021)
ANNETTE HAUßMANN UND RAINER HÖFELSCHWEIGER (Hg.): Von Spiritualität und Sinn. Seelsorge und Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie im Dialog, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2020.
BIRGIT WEYEL/ BEATE JAKOB (HG.): Spirituality, Mental Health, and Social Support. A Community Approach (Studies in Spiritual Care), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter
ANNETTE HAUßMANN: Depression and Spirituality/Religion. An Ambivalent Relationship, in: WEYEL/JAKOB (Hg.): Spirituality, Mental Health, and Social Support. A Community Approach (Studies in Spiritual Care), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2020, 56–89A
ANNETTE HAUßMANN, BIRGIT WEYEL UND BEATE JAKOB: Depression and Pastoral Care from the Viewpoint of Pastors in Germany, in: WEYEL/JAKOB (Hg.): Spirituality, Mental Health, and Social Support. A Community Approach, (Studies in Spiritual Care), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2020, 93–116.
ANNETTE HAUßMANN, BEATE JACOB UND BIRGIT WEYEL: Spirituality, Congregational Support and Mental Health: The Example of Depression, in: WEYEl/JAKOB (Hg.): Spirituality, Mental Health, and Social Support. A Community Approach (Studies in Spiritual Care), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2020, 141–154.
ANNETTE HAUßMANN: Depression and Spirituality/Religion. An Ambivalent Relationship, in: WEYEL/JAKOB (Hg.): Spirituality, Mental Health, and Social Support. A Community Approach (Studies in Spiritual Care), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2020, 56–89.
Exam thesis and bachelor thesis „Seelsorge bei psychischen Erkrankungen“ (Birthe Fritz)
- Publication Project „Learn, Strengthen and Reflect on Pastoral Care. The Center for Pastoral Care (Zentrum für Seelsorge) as an Interface Between Training, Practice and Science”:
The Zentrum für Seelsorge is an important interface between pastoral care practice and research-based theological poimenics, supported by the Protestant State Church in Baden (Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden) and the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. For 12 years, the center has been in existence and undergone a dynamic history of change due to the challenges of structural changes in society and in the church, theological concept-making, and developments in the landscape of pastoral education and training. In this anniversary volume, various voices describe these historical processes of transformation, respond to current trends, offer theological and interdisciplinary perspective, line put practical concepts, and explore future challenges and possible solutions.
- Publication project: „Die Entdeckung der inneren Welt. Religion und Psychologie in theologischer Perspektive“ [The Discovery of the Inner World. Religion and Psychology in Theological Perspective], to be published in November 2021:
The historical foundations of the discovery of our »inner world« in the history of religion and the humanities extend from antiquity to the present. This volume traces the relevance of the increasingly tense relationship between theology and psychology, especially in the modern era, by means of historical and contemporary issues and, above all, focuses on the potentials of their interdisciplinary reconnection: in recourse to the discourse on emotions of the recent past, the contributions explore new lines of connection between the mostly highly specialised theological, psychological and anthropological research perspectives on the »inner world« of religion.
- Spirituality in the pastoral profession:
The concept of spirituality and its integration in pastoral practice and theory are currently increasing. Recently, there has been an increase in demand for spiritual competence in theological studies and pastoral ministry. In official church regulations, spiritual formation is becoming an integral part, because spirituality is supposed to contribute to the prevention of burnout in ministry. But even beyond, spirituality is supposed to be ever-present in the everyday private and professional life of pastors. In this situation, not only does the concept of spirituality reveal itself in need of further reflection, but also the interplay of spirituality and ways of life, the understanding of professionalism, the relationship between office and person as well as the perspective on transformation processes within the church.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Recently published:
- Haußmann, Annette; Schleicher, Niklas (Hrsg.): Aktuelle Theologie. Zur Relevanz theologischer Forschung, Verlag Kohlhammer, 2. Quartal 2020.
- Haußmann, Annette; Höfelschweiger, Rainer: Spiritualität und Sinn. Seelsorge und Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie im Dialog, Verlag Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 06/2020
NEW INFORMATION ON PASTORAL CARE/COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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Pastoral and Spiritual Care in Pluralistic Societies (Special Issue Religions) - Call for Paper - Invitation
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Dealing with mental illness and stress in pastoral care in the face of the current crisis
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Pastoral care and the covid-19 pandemic – survey/ first results
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
- Conference “Integrative Pastoral Care” – March 12-13, 2021 (virtual)
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES OR ASSISTANTS/PHD CANDIDATES
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Norina Christa Ullmann (Mag. Theol.)
PhD project: “Integrative pastoral care and psychology of religion – how pastoral care can help strengthen a health-promoting faith practice”
E-mail: norina.ullmann@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
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Olivia Odrasil (Mag. Theol.)
PhD project: "Resilienzförderung in Sorgegemeinschaften durch Seelsorge"
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Carina Kammler (Mag. Theol.)
PhD project: “Pastoral care in the anthropological field of tension between self-efficacy and the experience of contingency – on dealing with a balancing act and the prospects it offers pastoral care”
E-mail: carina.kammler@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
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Selina Fucker ( Ergänzung bald :) )
STUDENT ASSISTANTS
Sophia Gerson
Patricia Kerl
Lina Pönicke
Laura Raeder
Carlotta Wegner
SECRETARY’S OFFICE (CHRISTIANE HEMBERGER-ULLRICH, MARION VOGLER)
Monday 9.30-11.30 a.m. (Hemberger-Ulrich)
Thursday 9.30-11.30 a.m. (Vogler)
Visiting address: Karlstraße 16 (room 402), 69117 Heidelberg
Mailing address: Kisselgasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Telephone: 06221-543609
E-mail: sekretariat.poimenik@ts.uni-heidelberg.de