What are the roles, functions, and identities of pastoral counsellors today? What paradigms shape their understandings of the needs of others? How can pastoral counsellors serve the needs of diverse individuals in both religious and secular environments? This foundational text reflects the continued and unfolding work of pastoral counselling in ......
Using narrative therapy as a caregiving approach can help individuals uncover multilayered narratives that are far more complex and liberating. Drawing on both theological approaches and real life experiences, the author creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people's stories.
Narratives of Hope in the Face of Death and Trauma
What are the major ways in which hope manifests itself in our time? And how should we understand these different ways of looking traumatic events in the eye? For answers to these questions and others, the author introduces readers to five expressions of hope through detailed and poignant case studies.
Crisis Counseling unites the historic skills of pastoral care and counseling with current methods of crisis intervention from the fields of psychology and psychotherapy. Like the original edition, the present book is written for ministers - both clergy and lay - who are called upon to care for those in crisis.
This book represents a significant departure from most contemporary writing about spiritual direction. While most writers focus on long-term relationships of guidance, specifically envisioning long listening sessions, Bidwell changes focus. Spiritual direction, he insists, typically requires intervention in a specific crisis or situation or ......
Pastoral Counseling with Survivors of Acquaintance Rape
It is not my enemies who taunt meI could bear that.... It is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.... Ps. 55:12-13The paucity of resources for pastoral care of acquaintance-rapesurvivors highlights the invisibility of this growing crime and its largely uncharted pastoral challenges. In fact, most rape is by an acquaintance. Only ......
Addressing the complex phenomenon of intimate violence against wives, lovers, and children, Livingston profiles abusers and battering and traces it to larger cultural pathologies. He explores the ambiguous role of religion, then offers practical advice for pastoral and programmatic efforts to embrace simultaneously the twin Christian imperatives ......
For the busy pastor, this book outlines sensitivities, awareness, and skills fundamental to this type of helping process. Issues such as identiy, sense of belonging, worldview, identification, family counseling, and use of biblical resources are discussed and illustrated with a wide variety of concrete cases.
