The Star Book for Pastoral Counseling

The Star Book for Pastoral Counseling
Author: Jason Richard Curry
Publisher: Star Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780817016852

A practical new volume in the best-selling ¿Star Book¿ series from Judson Press! Rev. Dr. Jason Curry brings his experience as pastor, university chaplain, and pastoral counselor to bear in offering church leaders a compact and comprehensive overview of pastoral counseling as a critical aspect of pastoral care. Dr. Curry covers topics from a foundational definition of pastoral counseling to the unique considerations in counseling women, African Americans, and others. One chapter is devoted to the most common types of pastoral counseling in the parish setting: premarital, grief, and addictions, while other chapters explore group dynamics in counseling couples and families. This pocket-sized volume provides categories for the intake interview, suggestions for planning the counseling session, instructions for creating a genogram, and brief discussions of legal and ethical issues. Includes a chapter about designing a pastoral counseling program in your own church!

Pastoral Counseling

Pastoral Counseling
Author: James E. Dittes
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664257385

In this invaluable resource for pastors and seminarians, James Dittes offers answers to some of a minister's basic counseling questions: how do I guide counseling conversations yet empower those who feel helpless? How do I negotiate relationships with people who I may counsel on one day and from whom I must seek a housing allowance on the next? Can I be psychologically adept while remaining theologically faithful? Dittes offers a wealth of insight into these and other fundamental issues.

Introduction to Pastoral Counseling

Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
Author: Loren L. Townsend
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0687658357

An in-depth look at who pastoral caregivers are, what they do, and how and why they do it

Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling

Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling
Author: Charles Allen Kollar
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310873800

This groundbreaking book, now updated and expanded, furthers its original, effective, time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands. Dr. Charles Kollar presents a departure in pastoral counseling, showing that counseling need not be long-term or depend on psychological manipulation to produce dramatic results. In most cases, the solution lies with the counselees themselves. Using the tested methods found in Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, pastors, apart from counselors, will be well equipped to help their counselees discover a solution and put it in motion speedily and productively.SFPC is short-term—typically one to five sessions, in which the counselor seeks to create solutions with—not for—the counselee. The focus is on the possibility of life without the problem through an understanding of what is different when the problem does not occur or is less intrusive. The goal is healthy change, sooner rather than later, by helping the counselee see and work on the solution with God’s activity already present in his or her life.The solution-focused approach does not require the counselor to be a highly trained psychological expert. It requires biblically based sensitivity and common sense. Yet this approach also recognizes its limitations and understands that there are situations in which other professional and/or medical help is required.

Understanding Pastoral Counseling

Understanding Pastoral Counseling
Author: Elizabeth A. Maynard, PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2015-06-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0826130054

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Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures

Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures
Author: David W. Augsburger
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664256166

In this book David Augsburger discusses the dynamics of pastoral care and counseling across cultural lines. Augsburger combines theology with global perspective and cultural sensitivity to posit an inclusive understanding of pastoral care. This book will be of great interest to pastoral counselors in both academic and practical contexts.

Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling

Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling
Author: Robert J. Wicks
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 756
Release: 1993
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780809133253

Vol. 2: Richard J. Wicks and Richard D. Parsons, editors. Vol. 2-3 lack edition statement. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

When Hearts Become Flame

When Hearts Become Flame
Author: Stephen Muse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015-05
Genre: Eastern churches
ISBN: 9780990502975

Whatever else he or she does, the pastoral counselor, same as the priest at the Divine Altar, enters into a call and response relationship, invoking Gods presence and seeking to be receptive to Gods activity unfolding in the here and now. The intention of pastoral counseling must be to offer Christ to the other (and receive Him) while serving at the altar of the human heart.