Basic Types of Pastoral Care & Counseling: Resources for the Ministry of Healing & Growth, Third Edition

Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling remains the standard in pastoral care and counseling. This third edition is enlarged and revised with updated resources, methods, exercises, and illustrations from actual counseling sessions. This book will help readers be sensitive to cultural diversity, ethical issues, and power dynamics as they practice holistic, growth-oriented pastoral care and counseling in the parish--from publisher's website Pastoral care and counseling : challenges and opportunities A model for spiritually centered holistic pastoral caregiving The history, mission, and theological-biblical foundations of pastoral caregiving Foundational skills for most types of caring and counseling Methods of holistic supportive caregiving Short-term pastoral counseling in crises Holistic caregiving in challenging crises Caregiving in chronic and long-term illness Bereavement caregiving : before, during, and after losses Healing spiritual brokenness and cultivating spiritual wholeness in pastoral care and counseling Ethical, meaning, and value issues in pastoral care and counseling Crisis counseling and enrichment with couples Pastoral care, counseling, and enriching families Educative counseling Group pastoral care and counseling The art of referral in pastoral caregiving Inclusive caregiving : bridging cultural, racial, ethnic, class, and gender diversity Equipping laypersons for caregiving ministries Self-care for caregivers.