Contents: Before you enter -- Assessing what sufferers seek -- Answers to the theological "why me?" -- Theodicy : the problem of evil -- Karl Barth speaks out on evil -- Pastoral care : where theology touches down -- Ministry in the trenches -- Now that the funeral's over -- A plea for mystery.
Contents : What is a pastoral emergency? -- What does it mean to say that we care? -- The carer and the caring : who are we and how do we go about it? -- Responding to persons' needs in situational crises -- Visiting the physically ill -- Hospital emergencies -- Ministry to the dying -- Pastoral response to bereavement -- Responding to suicidal persons and their families -- Marriage and family …
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: "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…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).
Introduction and overview -- The counselor as a person and as a professional -- Ethical issues in counseling practice -- Psychoanalytic therapy -- Adlerian therapy -- Existential therapy -- Person-centered therapy -- Gestalt therapy -- Transactional analysis -- Behavior therapy -- Rational-emotive therapy and other cognitive-behavioral approaches -- Reality therapy -- Case illustration: compari…
"A Crossroad book." "Portions of this book appeared first in Stress I and Stress II."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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…
Includes bibliographical references
Includes index.
The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to the author's influential Competent to Counsel. It takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling: Who is qualified to be a counselor? How can counselees change? How does the Holy Spirit work? What role does hope play? What is t…