Marsha Wiggins Frame

The Challenges of Intercultural Marriage: Strategies for Pastoral Care

In this article, the author describes the unique issues associated with intercultural marriage. A case illustration provides the springboard for presenting specific pastoral care and counseling strategies that may be helpful to intercultural couples. These strategies include assessing worldview and acculturation, creating spiritual and cultural genograms, reframing cultural challenges, collaborating with indigenous healers, inventing new rituals, and developing the advocacy role.

Counseling groups for african american women: A focus on spirituality

Abstract In this article, the authors describe cultural and spiritual traditions within African American womens experience that form the foundation for group counseling strategies. Literature regarding African American womens experience in groups is reviewed. Specific group interventions such as art, music, dance, imagery, journaling, and rituals that aim at transcendence, empowerment, and self-nurturance are explained. Finally, the authors describe the process, activities, themes, and outcomes of an African American Womens Spirituality Group conducted by the third author in which these approaches were employed.

Constructing New Realities: Integrating Womanist Traditions in Pastoral Counseling with African-American Women

Womanist cultural and spiritual themes are rich resources for pastoral counseling with African-American women. The authors describe womanist cultural themes, present a case example of an African-American woman struggling with identity issues, and provide specific strategies for incorporating womanist cultural and spiritual patterns in counseling African-American women.

Care for the Caregiver: Clues for the Pastoral Care of Clergywomen

In this article, we report the results of a qualitative study on the special challenges faced by clergywomen: the impact of gender, work demands, and personal and professional stressors, and the positive and negative coping strategies these clergywomen employed. We include a discussion of the pastoral care issues that emerged from the study and make recommendations for ways pastoral counselors may care for their own.

The influence of gender and gender-pairings on clergy's identification of sexually ambiguous behavior as sexual harassment

A sample of 371 United Methodist clergy indicated how strongly they believed a sexually ambiguous scenario between a senior pastor and associate pastor constituted sexual harassment when senior/associate pastor genders were varied. Participants also completed the Tolerance of Sexual Harassment Inventory (TSHI). Male clergy were less likely than females to perceive the interaction between a senior pastor and associate (in any of four gender-pairings) as sexual harassment. There were no significant differences in perception of sexual harassment based on senior/associate pastor gender pairings. Males and those 46 and older were significantly more tolerant of sexual harassment than females and those 45 and under.

Forging Spiritual and Cultural Competency in Spiritual Care-Givers: A Response to Fukuyama and Sevig and Anderson

[Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Forging Spiritual and Cultural Competency in Spiritual Care-Givers: A Response to Fukuyama and Sevig and Anderson.” Frame, Marsha Wiggins. Co-published simultaneously in Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (The Haworth Pastoral Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 13, No. 2, 2004, pp. 51-58; and: Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity of Health Care: Increasing the Competency of Chaplains (ed: Robert G. Anderson, and Mary A. Fukuyama) The Haworth Pastoral Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., 2004, pp. 51-58. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service [1-800-HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: docdelivery@haworthpress.com].