Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling)

More and more professionals in ministry realized the benefits of brief pastoral counseling-typically three sessions-for addressing the real-life dilemmas of their congregants. In this very helpful resource, eleven leaders in pastoral counseling-both established leaders and new thinkers in the field-offer a convincing rationale. Based on reserach, case studies, and the latest thinking, they lay out (1) the dynamics of the pastor- parishioner relationship, including the need for collaborative, hospitable, future-oriented, and wholistic counseling, and (2) specific strategies, including brief counseling's solution-focused method, its relation to spiritual direction, its focus on people's strengths, and time limits. The volume concludes with a call for the whole field to recognize the contextual, practical character of effective, responsible pastoral counseling.

• Strategic Pastoral Counseling: A Short-Term Structured Model
• Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling: An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
• Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities
• Giving Counsel: A Minister's Guidebook
• Theology and Pastoral Counseling: A New Interdisciplinary Approach
• Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care
• Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fifth Edition: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner - Grief Counseling Handbook on Treatment of Grief, Loss and Bereavement, Book and Free eBook
• Reflections on Grief and Spiritual Growth
• The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
• Counseling Couples in Conflict: A Relational Restoration Model