Discusses the mission and foundations of pastoral counseling, gives advice on handling spiritual, ethical, marital, educative, and bereavement counseling, and looks at holistic and psychological approaches

Product Description: What if we are more multiple as persons than traditional psychology has taught us to believe? And what if our multiplicity is a part of how we are made in the very image of a loving, relational, multiple God? How have modern, Western notions of Oneness caused harm-to both individuals and society? And how can an appreciation of our multiplicity help liberate the voices of those who live at the margins, both of society and within our own complex selves? Braided Selves explores these questions from the perspectives of postmodern pastoral psychology and Trinitarian theology, with implications for the practice of spiritual care, counseling, and psychotherapy...read more

Product Description: The focus of this text is on the clinical aspects of pastoral psychotherapy that is, those psychological understandings and approaches that provide the pastor, however he or she is defined, with the skills to understand the underlying dynamics of specific behavioral disorders people bring to them, as well as the art of working with and reeducating those in distress as to healthier, less self-defeating choices they can make in life...read more

Product Description: This is a two-volume textbook in clinical theology. It serves as a course in clinical pastoral training and care which makes full use of the resources and techniques of psychology. This work integrates the theological, psychiatric, and psychoanalytical disciplines with remarkable success and clarity...read more

Product Description: Book by Lake, Frank

Product Description: The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it examines critically how the field of pastoral counseling has responded to the resurgence of interest in issues of spirituality, particularly the appropriation of various texts on spiritually-oriented psychotherapies in counseling...read more

Product Description: Most therapeutic approaches, especially those of a cognitive orientation, are not very effective in dealing with high conflict relationships--couples often heading toward divorce by the time they seek help. Counseling Couples in Conflict is a resource for pastors and counselors who want to be ready for these uniquely difficult cases...read more

Product Description: Every pastor knows that each community of faith consists of individuals who may be in crisis at any given moment, for a multitude of reasons. However, it’s essential that church leaders also view their congregations as a single organism in need of looking after as a whole...read more

Product Description: Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations...read more

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Product Description: Grace for the Injured Self shows the reader how the 'self psychology' developed by Heinz Kohut can be an influential theory for pastoral care. The late Kohut affirmed that religion is not only an expression of the self, but can also sustain the self in the alliance between faith and grace, with self psychology and empathy...read more

Product Description: Kann ich Sie kurz sprechen? - Smalltalk bestimmt in der betrieblichen und privaten Kommunikation den Ton des Miteinanders, gehort aber auch zum beruflichen Alltag in helfenden Berufen. Die Beilaufigkeit dieser meist zufalligen Gesprachssituationen lasst bewahrte seelsorgliche und beraterische Gesprachstechniken oder Therapiemethoden nicht zur Anwendung kommen...read more

Product Description: Despite astute critiques and available resources for alternative modes of thinking and practicing, individualism continues to be a dominating and constraining ideology in the field of pastoral psychotherapy and counseling. Philip Rieff was one of the first to highlight the negative implications of individualism in psychotherapeutic theories and practices...read more

Product Description: 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 refer—all while remaining faithful to the basic pastoral calling to connect persons seeking help with the relationships and resources they need to deal with their lives...read more

Product Description: Book by Oates, Wayne E.

Product Description: Grace is the credential that lets us park close to people's hearts.When Christ calls a pastor He instills a kind of heightened instinct for grace; what we call a shepherd's heart. However, pastors often become disoriented by leadership demands, congregational expectation, and the wounds of ministry...read more

Product Description: This book explores the suffering of social class and how traditional biomedical models for mental illness do not adequately account for the stresses of poverty. Turning to mental health user testimonies, this book equips ministers and counsellors to become working class advocates...read more