Pastoral Care and Pandemic.

 

This online assembly is taking place on Saturday 11 December from 1pm to 3pm (EST), which is 10am to 12noon (PST).

The first speaker, Rev Fr. Vasileios Thermos (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Theologian) will give a 30 minute talk on the Orthodox Church and Pandemic.

He has written numerous books and articles in Greek; some of them have been translated into English, French, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish. Citations of his works currently number around 800 totally, 50 being in English. He is the editor of a journal in Greek (Psyches dromoi: Ways of the Soul), published every 6 months, on the relationships between theology/religion and psychiatry/psychology (first issue in May 2011).

In 2017-18 his essay The Paradox of Mental Health Care and Spirituality: The Culture of Extreme Individualism as a Mediator was awarded the prize on the “Culture, Care, and Spirituality” contest by the Jean-Marc Fischer Foundation in Switzerland.

He has been a member of scientific committees organizing conferences on the relationship between theology and psychiatry/psychology. He has also given thousands of lectures to seminars, parents groups, clergy assemblies, camps, high schools, radio and TV etc. Also he has been invited in various ecclesiastical groups on homosexuality and gender issues.

Bio excerpts: healthandreligion.gr