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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 ...
What role should the Bible play in pastoral counseling? Donald Capps here explores the use of the Bible in counseling and shows how the methods and objectives of counseling can be defined and shaped by three biblical forms: psalms, proverbs, and parables. Applying these forms, Capps demonstrates how the Bible can influence the three major types of pastoral counseling -- grief, premarital, and marriage. He examines the capacity of these forms to comfort, to instruct, and to diagnose problems. He explains how through psalms feelings can be vented, through proverbs moral learning can take place, and through parables new understandings of experience can occur. With actual case study examples and practical suggestions, this refreshingly perceptive book offers positive steps for furthering dialogue between biblical scholarship and pastoral counseling.
Hurting people need help. But sometimes those who are faced with helping the hurting could use a little more information about the problems people bring to them. Now in its second edition, The Quick-Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling provides the answers. This A to Z guide gives pastors, counselors, and all believers the information they need to help congregants, clients, and friends in a wide array of situations. The many issues addressed include · addictions · burnout · forgiveness · sexual abuse in childhood · worry · and many more Each of the 40 topics covered follows a helpful 8-part outline and identifies typical symptoms and patterns, definitions and key thoughts, questions to ask, directions for the conversation, action steps, biblical insights, prayer starters, and recommended resources.
This substantially revised and updated edition of a widely used textbook covers the major approaches to counseling and psychotherapy from a Christian perspective, with hypothetical verbatim transcripts of interventions for each major approach and the latest empirical or research findings on their effectiveness. The second edition covers therapies and techniques that are increasing in use, reduces coverage of techniques that are waning in importance, and includes a discussion of lay counseling. The book presents a Christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy that is Christ-centered, biblically based, and Spirit-filled.
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A collection of fifteen case studies that give church leaders practical and realistic preparation to handle tough issues like sexual harassment, pornography, divorce, and the effects of abortion. The book includes discussion questions, an appendix for facilitating discussions, and a bibliography of additional resources.
Introduces both clergy and laity to the ministry skills and personal qualities needed to provide effective care for people inside and outside the church...
The potent Cognitive Therapy is taught, but with the careful guidance of solid biblical principles. This introductory ebook gives an excellent framework from which to evaluate other systems of counseling, and to develop your own system of pastoral or Christian counseling. A selected bibliography points you to a rich mine of information. There are 112 pages brimming with over 50,000 valuable words and dozens of carefully selected proven concepts designed to greatly increase your knowledge and skills in pastoral and Christian counseling - from a compelling biblical viewpoint.
With a light touch and sensible techniques, Dr. Jim Petersen distills years of counseling and pastoral ministry into an informal volume loaded with practical tips, examples and techniques to practice. His book highlights our culture’s courtroom-like communication that often puts people at odds with each other. Most people think they listen well but don’t and folks walk away unheard, misunderstood and disconnected. Readers will chuckle in recognition at the tongue-in-cheek but spot-on “flat-brain” theory of emotions. It shows how and why we get upset and confused in tense situations and what to do about it. It lays the practical groundwork to better manage emotionally loaded situation...
Mastering Life is a how-to book that helps us get unstuck from our problems and find God-given solutions as we attempt new ways of dealing with the issues of everyday life.