The Practice of Pastoral Care, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Postmodern Approach

The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establishing the actual relationship. This new edition elaborates on and expands the author's previous work, adding an intercultural perspective that gives more attention to religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. It offers a road map for using a step-by-step narrative, relational, embodied approach to spiritual care that respects the unique ways people live out their values and beliefs, especially in coping with stress, loss, and violence. Readers will be able to confidently and professionally offer pastoral care and counseling to members of their congregations or other places of ministry.

• Images of Pastoral Care
• Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care
• Hearing Beyond the Words: How to Become a Listening Pastor
• In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling Second Edition (Practical Theology)
• A Family Genogram Workbook
• Caring for God's People (Integrating Spirituality Into Pastoral Counseling)
• Raging with Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil
• Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and Chaplain's Handbook
• Listening and Caring Skills in Ministry: A Guide for Groups and Leaders
• All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care