Reminiscences of Walter J. Smith : oral history, 2003.

Biographical Note

CEO, The Healthcare Chaplaincy.

Scope and Contents

Background: childhood Boston, MA, Irish immigrant family, discussion of Irish-American identity; education: French language and literature Jesuit University, Ph.D. clinical psychology Sorbonne; discussion of 1960s academic experience; career: Jesuit priest, academic psychologist, Dean of Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Chaplaincy; pre-9/11: chaplaincy training in stress management and emergency response with Red Cross; 9/11: deploying staff to New York Downtown Hospital, changing focus from emergency care to managing loss and grief; post-9/11: work with Family and Protective Services, interactions with firefighters, discussion of personal loss and sense of community.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Disaster relief--New York (State)--New York--Psychological aspects.
• HealthCare Chaplaincy--Employees--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Pastoral care.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Psychological aspects.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Smith, Walter J.--Interviews.

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