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1517 Media Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling by Howard W. Stone
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 counselings solution-focused method its relation to spiritual direction its focus on peoples 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.show more