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Christian World Imprints Families In Crisis Pastoral Care And Family Counselling Models by Phanenmo Kath
Pastoral counselling is one of the most vital ministries of the church. It is also a very challenging ministry. We lack relevant and appropriate models of pastoral counselling for the churches in India, particularly in North East India. In this book the author provides several family-centric models of pastoral counselling based on Tribal traditional and cultural values. Tribal communities are endowed with rich traditional and cultural family values. The book attempts to retrieve to the rich cultural repertoire of correlates in family system and values to derive pastoral counselling models. Retrieving to the past is not a regression but progression and productive, because past and present are parts of the continuum of living. The past-present becomes part of the necessity, not the nostalgia, of living. The family-centric pastoral counselling models suggested in the book will be of immense help to the pastors in their counselling ministry. The book will also make great contribution in enshrining the knowledge of theological students. The readers will find the book stimulating. I wish God s blessing to the readers of this book! After systematically introducing the book, author delves into thoroughly understanding family and presents a myriad of significant perspectives. He then methodically explains the theological understanding of family and elaborates on the much-needed family counselling and therapy. It is very apt that he bases his study on the Naga family system, backing up his information with relevant data and biosystematics studies. Dr. Phanen s interest and contribution towards coping with the present challenges families are facing is very well reflected in this book. The special contribution of the book is towards Proposing - the New Family Counselling Models. It is my hope that many people will take it as a privilege to go through the pages of this resourceful book