Practical Psychology For Pastors

Author : William R. Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608996131
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Psychology for Pastors, 2nd Edition written by William R. Miller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical handbook takes a totally fresh approach to the work of pastoral counselors by drawing on recent research and developments in the health and behavioral sciences. Thoroughly revised and updated, this edition incorporates new or expanded coverage of topics such as: - a new chapter on Pastoral Self-Care which offers advice on maintaining psychological health, avoiding crisis, and preventing personal and occupational burnout - the integration of counseling with other pastoral roles and functions - pastoral counseling ethics - how to help people build personal motivation for change -grief counseling and crisis intervention - post-traumatic stress, physical and sexual abuse, and personality disorders

Author : William R. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780136928072
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Psychology for Pastors written by William R. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pratical, research based "how to" for pastors involved in counselling. The theological context is broad, and applies across denominations. Extensive case examples, sample dialogue and questioning strategies.

Author : Wayne Edward Oates
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451420043
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grief, Transition, and Loss written by Wayne Edward Oates and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his creative pastoral care and counseling series, veteran counselor Wayne Oates shares ideas from a lifetime of ministry. Oates focuses on life situations in addition to death that can cause grief, depression, and a sense of loss, such as divorce, job change, or relocation. More common than ever in today's world, these events offer opportunities for personal caregiving by ministers, friends, and family members.

Author : Donald Capps
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172520116X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Approaches to Pastoral Counseling written by Donald Capps and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role should the Bible play in pastoral counseling? Donald Capps here explores the use of the Bible in counseling and shows how the methods and objectives of counseling can be defined and shaped by three biblical forms: psalms, proverbs, and parables. Applying these forms, Capps demonstrates how the Bible can influence the three major types of pastoral counseling -- grief, premarital, and marriage. He examines the capacity of these forms to comfort, to instruct, and to diagnose problems. He explains how through psalms feelings can be vented, through proverbs moral learning can take place, and through parables new understandings of experience can occur. With actual case study examples and practical suggestions, this refreshingly perceptive book offers positive steps for furthering dialogue between biblical scholarship and pastoral counseling.

Author : David G. Benner
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441200568
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Pastoral Counseling written by David G. Benner and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 on contemporary ethical issues, and updated chapter bibliographies. His study will continue to serve clergy and students well as a valued practical handbook on pastoral care and counseling.

Author : Charles Allen Kollar
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310873800
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling written by Charles Allen Kollar and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 manipulation to produce dramatic results. In most cases, the solution lies with the counselees themselves. Using the tested methods found in Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, pastors, apart from counselors, will be well equipped to help their counselees discover a solution and put it in motion speedily and productively.SFPC is short-term—typically one to five sessions, in which the counselor seeks to create solutions with—not for—the counselee. The focus is on the possibility of life without the problem through an understanding of what is different when the problem does not occur or is less intrusive. The goal is healthy change, sooner rather than later, by helping the counselee see and work on the solution with God’s activity already present in his or her life.The solution-focused approach does not require the counselor to be a highly trained psychological expert. It requires biblically based sensitivity and common sense. Yet this approach also recognizes its limitations and understands that there are situations in which other professional and/or medical help is required.

Author : Merle R. Jordan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725203170
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking on the Gods written by Merle R. Jordan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking on the Gods explores a clinical theological approach to the treatment of individuals, couples, and families suffering from neurotic styles of life. Merle Jordan exposes the origins of neuroses in idolatry: the substitution of false psychological gods for the true God as the center of ultimate reality. In attempting to earn the approval of these false gods and to escape their harsh judgment, one enters into a second idolatry: becoming one's own Messiah, parts of the self are sacrificed to placate the false gods. The resulting personality distortions are the source of many emotional difficulties. Jordan discusses not only the role of pastoral counselors in helping clients confront their idols, but also the counselors responsibility to recognize their own false gods. Topics covered include: Pastoral Counseling as the Encounter Between Gods, The Implicit Religious Drama in Marital and Family Counseling, The Operational Theology of the "Common Cold" - Depression, and Self-justification Versus Justification by Faith Through Grace. According to Jordan, helping people to 'take on their gods," to free themselves to experience the loving God, is the heart of the pastoral counselor's task.

Author : Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745930503
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Pastoral Psychology written by Hall and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dan Montgomery
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780557194872
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Counseling & Coaching written by Dan Montgomery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptionally practical book shows pastors and Christian therapists reliable ways to help individuals who are challenged by a wide range of issues. Through diagrams and dialogue, the reader moves directly into the Compass Therapy approach to pastoral counseling, whether this takes the form of brief situational coaching, short-term counseling, or long-term pastoral psychotherapy. Dan Montgomery's well-established Compass Model integrates psychology and theology, while demonstrating with lively case studies the beautiful potential for healing available in the pastor and care-seeker relationship. Praised by professors at Yale, Princeton, Fuller, Gordon-Conwell, Dallas, and Bangor theological seminaries, as well as Loyola, Oral Roberts, and Southwestern Assemblies of God universities. A vital addition to the library of pastors, students, and Christian counselors.

Author : T. Dale Johnson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725264927
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Professionalization of Pastoral Care written by T. Dale Johnson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the organization and structure of the church in America was altered in the early 1900s to meet modern demands, the role of the pastorate became more specialized to adapt to the burdens of the new, “efficient” structure. In 1920, Gaines Dobbins utilized the business efficiency model at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to formulate a distinct ecclesiology. Discontent with traditional methods of instruction in theological education, Dobbins sought to implement theories and methodologies from modern educationalists. He adopted a psychologized educational methodology and utilized the psychology of religion as an empirical measure of the soul, human nature, and human behavior. Use of the social sciences seemed to grant Dobbins, as a practitioner, academic respectability within the realm of theological education. Both the professionalization that resulted from Dobbins’s efficiency standards, and a working theory of human nature derived from psychological models, were synthesized into a specialized system of pastoral care. Dobbins followed the new shape of pastoral theology in America, adopting Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) as the model for pastoral training. As a result, CPE became an integral part of the curriculum at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for over sixty years, and spread to influence many other SBC entities.