Other Notes : Includes index.
Abstract: A comprehensive social and systemic foundation for pastoral and caretaking that will be an invaluable guide for the activities of parish ministers and counseling practitioners. Graham's model better interprets and responds to the interplay between individuals and the larger cultural and environmental realities which contribute to their distress and its transformation
Contents : A sufficient Bible : finding answers in scripture -- How do we know what to believe? -- The Bible warrants our confidence -- Does the Bible speak meaningfully to every human problem? -- The Bible is a sufficient guide for relational living -- Understanding people : a tarnished image and broken relationships -- How can people truly change? -- People bear the image of God! -- Dependen…
Contents: The most important element in counseling -- Hazards in counseling -- Thought life : the foundation for counseling -- The inner conversation approach to counseling -- Helping people change their thought lives -- The use of imagery in counseling -- The untapped resource of counseling : prayer -- Practical applications -- Suggested methods for controlling thoughts. Other Notes : Incl…
Contents: Community counseling -- Public counseling -- Mutual aid and self-counseling -- Lay counseling -- Preventive counseling -- Environmental counseling -- Brief counseling -- Cross-cultural counseling -- Planning counseling -- Future counseling.
Contents : You are not alone -- When to refer -- How to refer -- Where to refer -- Special problems in referral -- The on-going ministry.
Contents : Part 1: Introductory issues -- The changes in counseling -- The counselor and counseling -- The church and counseling -- The community and counseling -- The core of counseling -- The legal, ethical, and moral issues in Christian counseling -- The multicultural issues in Christian counseling -- Part 2: Prominent issues -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Anger -- Guilt and forgiveness -- Lone…
Contents: The goals of growth counseling -- The working principles of growth counseling -- The flow and methods of growth counseling -- Spiritual growth -- the key to all growth -- Biblical and theological resources for growth counseling -- Growth counseling through the stages of life. Other Notes : Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-199) and index.
Contents: "Can you talk with me?" -- The counselee's experience of counseling -- The pastoral counselor as witness -- A gracious nonchalance: regarding the counselee "as is" and "as though" -- Empowering by tracking feelings -- Ambivalence, resistance, and re-covery -- Getting started: precounseling or counseling? -- Counseling as God's call. Abstract: In this invaluable resource for pasto…
Contents: Foundations -- Sanctification and transformation -- The Evangelical base of transformation -- The unbelieving heart of a believer -- How we see God -- Performance orientation -- The base of law -- The central power and necessity of forgiveness -- Breaking the cycle -- The role of a Christian counselor -- Early life - hidden sins -- Crib time -- Toddling terrors -- From walking, to sc…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Victory Over the Darkness emphasizes the importance of believing and internalizing the cardinal truths of Scripture as a base from which to renew the mind and fend off Satan's relentless attempt to convince us that we are less than Christ empowers us to be. --publisher.
Gambling addiction / Sabrina D. Black -- Sexual addiction and the internet / Sabrina D. Black and LaVern A. Harlin -- Dealing with addictions through the twelve steps with godly principles / Annette Hampton -- Substance abuse : A programmatic approach and its blessings / Alfred Young, Jr. -- Domestic abuse / Kenneth Staley and Sheila Staley -- Sexual abuse and incest / Deborah G. Haskins -- Div…
Adolescent pastoral counseling: some initial considerations -- Adolescent development and dysfunction -- Counseling: some issues and approaches -- The adolescent and the family -- Adolescent stress -- Divorce and the Adolescent -- Eating disorders -- Abuse and the Adolescent -- Sexuality and the Adolescent -- Depression and Adolescence -- Drug abuse and the Adolescent -- Conclusion.
"In this book Jann Aldredge-Clanton brings a perspective from a theology of hope to people struggling with cancer Aldredge-Clanton believes that in the midst of a frightening illness, our spiritual task is to reunderstand our life story in light of the sacred story of God's love in the world. She investigates the images of God held by cancer patients and finds ways to connect their stories to t…
Therapeutic counseling in a Christian context can be highly effective when it maintains narrowly focused goals in a time-limited setting. The details of this proven model of pastoral counseling are described in this practical guide. This second edition of Strategic Pastoral Counseling has been thoroughly revised and includes two new chapters. Benner includes helpful case studies, a new appendix…