h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Yes I know what pastoral care is, what I want to find is examples of non religious organisations offering similar" [Sho'Flo]

By the modern definition of pastoral care, psychologists and affiliated clinicians would offer it. When my grandmother worried about dying in her sleep, a psychiatrist was able to ease her mind. That sounds to me a lot like nonreligious pastoral care. What I can't do with any certainty of success, is come up with organizations that might provide psychiatric or psychological care, as every country has a different arrangement for providing such care.

>>What I can't do with any certainty of success, is come up with organisations that might provide psychiatric or psychological care, as every country has a different arrangement for providing such care.<< : paulh


Well now paulh,
I can't point you at a such specific organisation but I can point you at an organisation whose members have some such training (I'm damn' sure of that, having watched them at work, at close quarters, for an extended time) :
http://www.nursemaude.org.nz

... and I wonder if this is the only (part of a) country with a District Nurse organisation ... ?

Sho/Flo is the researcher who is looking for such an organization. She is in Germany.

Sorry Sho / Flo.

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still, nothing more to add from here

thanks all - all round!