Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is the ideal companion volume to Howard Clinebell's widely used classic, Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling, for 30 years the standard text in pastoral care, with 70,000 copies in print. Howard Clinebell's methodology is now updated and reinterpreted by distinguished authorities in the field of pastoral care and counseling, including John B. Cobb Jr., James Poling, and David Switzer. Specific, workable solutions to real-life counseling problems are discussed. By using this handbook, counselors will discover effective ways to help others deal with such issues as grief, depression, burnout, marriage and family problems and substance abuse. A complete bibliography of major publications by Howard Clinebell is included.