Pastoral Counseling category: 622 books
Pastor as Counselor
Wise Presence, Sacred Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This very practical book offers no-nonsense instructions for pastors, chaplains, and ministers whose real specialty is the practice of relational wisdom. Patton provides a helpful, step-by-step template for pastoral counseling sessions and clear guidelines for understanding when to defer and how to...
Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West
Professional Partners in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
This is the first time an author has listened to pastors in Africa and compared her findings with pastoral counseling from a Western perspective. Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West presents a practical record of pastoral counseling in Africa. It accounts for the wide difference between pastoral...
Basic Types of Pastoral Care & Counseling
Resources for the Ministry of Healing & Growth, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
em>Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling remains the standard in pastoral and counseling. This third edition is enlarged and revised with updated resources, methods, exercises, and illustrations from actual counseling sessions. This book will help readers be sensitive to cultural diversity,...
Strategic Pastoral Counseling
A Short-Term Structured Model
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
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...
by Michael Craig
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
The information provided in this book is neither complete nor comprehensive. It is not designed to be all encompassing. Although, the contents are directed to the pastoral or Christian counselor, the purpose is to provide help to all counselors (from the beginner to the well-seasoned therapist), with...
by Glenn H. Asquith, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Concise Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling is a condensed version of the Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, first published in 1990, with new and updated articles. This book provides classic and key articles that explain current theories, trends, and practices in the field...
Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling
An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
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...
by Dr. Robert E. Fugate
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Almost all American evangelical colleges and seminaries have embraced some form of the 400+ conflicting psychological therapies and 10,000+ conflicting psycho-therapeutic techniques. Psychotherapists comprise the pastoral departments of most major, conservative seminaries. Consequently, much contemporary...
Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling
An Effective short-term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
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...
by Loren Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Grounded in empirical research and richly illustrated with case studies, this introduction continues the theoretical, practical, and theological expansion of Pastoral Care and Counseling. Because of increasing cultural diversity and the fact that more training is done outside of seminaries in non-seminary...
Transformative Encounters
The Intervention of God in Christian Counseling and Pastoral Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What would it mean for Christian counseling and pastoral care to take seriously the idea that God intervenes in the world? What would it look like for therapists and pastors to see themselves as opening the door to a miraculous divine encounter? How would counseling change if the intervention of God...
Shepherding God's Flock
A Handbook on Pastoral Ministry, Counseling, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Shepherding God’s Flock is both a textbook for students of pastoral ministry and a handbook for pastors. Jay Adams is well-known for his practical and thorough approach to the many issues of Christian counseling. That same practicality and thoroughness is found in this unparalleled handbook on pastoral...
Pastoral Counseling Handbook
A Guide to Helping the Hurting
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Healing from past wounds requires hard work. It involves effectively examining of an individual's past, as well as remaining conscientious of the changes in his or her present behavior, thinking, and spiritual life. But what if, after all of that listening and examining, you still don't know what...
by Kirk A. Bingaman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Studies in neuroscience demonstrate that a focus on mindfulness meditation and contemplative spiritual practice has the capacity to increase our non-anxious awareness and significantly lower our stress. Not only is this finding of immediate importance for pastoral counselors and psychotherapists,...