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Short-term intervention to improve the referral practices of local churches

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Good, Andrew Jackson. Short-term Intervention to Improve the Referral Practices of Local Churches. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/af3ca792-5af7-429e-b838-c364cf76b310.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

G. A. Jackson. Short-term intervention to improve the referral practices of local churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/af3ca792-5af7-429e-b838-c364cf76b310

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Good, Andrew Jackson. Short-Term Intervention to Improve the Referral Practices of Local Churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/af3ca792-5af7-429e-b838-c364cf76b310.

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  • This project report is offered as a model upon which further research in the important area of clergy referrals can be constructed. The small number of pastors participating in this effort limits the strength with which conclusions can be stated. This project produced a preliminary indication that a particular style of isolated ministry is associated with low referral activity on the part of clergymen, and that this style can be altered by a carefully-constructed, brief educational experience. The writer hopes that further study, by himself or other researchers, will contribute additional data to these findings. There are two issues which are essentials to this project but which are not discussed in the report. These should be identified at the outset. The first of these issues is the writer’s assumption that Christian commitment and psychological insights are not, by nature, antagonistic to one another. On the contrary, I begin with a belief that an appropriate use of psychological concepts can enrich pastoral ministry. The material discussed in this report will be of little interest to those who do not share this presupposition. The second issue is the use of masculine pronouns in this report to describe those who practice pastoral ministry. All those persons who were in the original research sample were male and references to these, in the interest of accuracy, are in the masculine gender. An effort was made early in the writing to shift to a more inclusive form when referring to pastors beyond this research group. The result of that effort was both awkward and confusing. Thus, masculine pronouns, despite their limitation, have been used throughout this report in referring to members of the clergy.
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  • 12/18/2025

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