ACT for Clergy and Pastoral Counselors

Author: Jason A. Nieuwsma
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1626253234
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 502

Book Description
For the first time ever, three pioneers in the field of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) present an edited volume that outlines how the core ACT processes can be applied to religious and spiritual care approaches. If you are a clergy leader or pastoral counselor, people struggling with difficult situations or life traumas frequently turn to you for guidance. And while you’re passionate about helping, you may be unprepared for counseling people with certain mental health challenges. On the other hand, if you are a psychotherapist, you may need guidance in supporting your client’s religious belief system in therapy. In either case, this book presents a powerful road map to help you provide the best care. In this book, you’ll find a complete overview of ACT, as well as strategies for integrating ACT and issues related to spirituality. You’ll also learn how the core processes of ACT—such as commitment to change and values-based living—can be seamlessly tied into spiritual and religious counseling, no matter your faith or therapeutic background. By teaching you how to fuse conceptual psychological and spiritual principles, this book will provide you with the tools needed to enhance your counseling skill set.

The Heart of Pastoral Counseling

Author: Richard L Dayringer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136375716
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
The relationship between pastor and parishioner is the essence of pastoral counseling--a simple truth with profound implications. Dr. Richard Dayringer explores these implications in The Heart of Pastoral Counseling: Healing Through Relationship, Revised Edition to help pastoral counselors understand how to use the relationship to bring about the desired ends in the therapeutic process. Drawing on research from the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, marriage counseling, family therapy, and pastoral counseling, this book lays the foundation for utilizing the pastoral counseling relationship to bring about positive change as it explores topics such as observation, listening, communication, handling transference, and termination of therapy. Because the interpersonal relationship is the vehicle of therapy, it is critical that pastoral counselors understand the psychological assumptions that play a large part in the characteristics of relationships as well as the factors requiring attention in order to establish a secure counseling relationship. The Heart of Pastoral Counseling will help you attain this understanding as you also improve your knowledge on: how pastoral relationships may be applied outside the therapeutic hour in general pastoral work eclectic methods for clarifying feelings, developing intellectual insight, interpreting, questioning, and assigning certain behavior employing the problem-oriented record in pastoral counseling distinguishing relationship from transference and countertransference the unique problem that counseling acquaintances presents personality traits that attract people to the minister/pastoral counselor counselor attitudes that foster relationship how a client’s view of the counselor has an impact on the effectiveness of therapy The Heart of Pastoral Counseling brings a solid base of research to pastoral counselors, seminary students, graduate students in counseling, professors of counseling, and specialists in pastoral psychotherapy so that you might better understand the nature of pastoral counseling relationships and how they are helpful and constructive in people’s lives. You will be challenged to rethink your role in initiating and carrying out therapeutic change and realize why you should build your ministry on relationships, rather than on friendships.

Legal Issues and Religious Counseling

Author: Ronald K. Bullis
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664253868
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
This much-needed book offers a current description of how religious counselors and clergy, as well as their local and national religious organizations, become legally vulnerable. The authors examine the three most litigated areas in clergy counseling: breaches of confidentiality; sexual misconduct; and the content and quality of counseling services. Glossary.

Principles of Pastoral Counselling

Author: Roy Stuart Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780281022434
Category : Pastoral counseling
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description

Understanding Pastoral Counseling

Author: Elizabeth A. Maynard, PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826130054
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
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Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling

Author: Robert J. Wicks
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809140619
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
Building on the groundbreaking original work with the same title, these articles focus on current issues, such as certain life stages, special populations, the devalued and abused, the addicted and special issues of the 1990's.

Brief Pastoral Counseling

Author: Howard W. Stone
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451409765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Most pastoral counselors, clergy, and psychotherapists assume that truly effective counseling requires months or even years. Studies have proven otherwise, showing that most people come for four or fewer sessions, and that the majority of any counseling's effectiveness occurs in the opening few sessions.

Pastoral Counseling: Looking for Solutions

Author: Anthony Haire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937064198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
This book will assist pastors in their efforts to counsel parishioners by moving from a problem-focused approach to a solution-focused approach. Clergy members have historically sought ways to improve their counseling methods. The practice of contemporary pastoral counseling has been profoundly impacted by 20th century secular psychological principles. Pastoral counselors have adopted and adapted many of these principles in an attempt to improve their counseling efforts. Parish-based pastoral counselors have long been aware of the unique stressors and concerns that are associated with serving parishioners in a duality of professional roles. This book describes a research project that was initiated to introduce the clergy to the principles of a model of family therapy known as Solution-Focused. The Solution-Focused Family Therapy model was developed at the Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1] The utility of the solution - focused approach in family therapy is described. Of particular interest is the manner in which pastoral counselors may employ this unique variant of brief systemic therapy in parish-based settings. A pastoral counseling adaptation of solution-focused therapy emphasizes present and future solutions, while minimizing the attention directed toward problematic behavioral sequences that can create negativity, or stress for both pastor and client-member. A main goal of a parish-based pastoral usage of solution - focused therapy is to provide brief and effective assistance to members, while avoiding negativity, thereby maximizing the potential preservation of satisfactory ongoing clergy-member relations. This book features the research method of Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR), and a narrative analysis of exemplars.

The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling

Author: Michelle Friedman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315535327
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths. The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients, counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.

Pastoral Counseling - Its Theory and Practice

Author: Carroll A. Wise
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447485637
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
A guide for people interested in the fascinating field of pastoral counselling. A mix of standard psychological counselling and religious teachings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.