Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling: An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track

ISBN-13:	9780310329299
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	05/07/2011
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	526,295
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

An original, effective, and time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands—fully updated and expanded. Professional counselor and pastor Dr. Charles Allen Kollar found that counseling does not need not be long-term or depend on psychological manipulation to produce dramatic results. In most cases, the solution lies with the counselees themselves.Using the tested methods found in Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, pastors, apart from counselors, will be well equipped to:help their counselees discover a solution and put it in motion speedily and productivelyInstitute healthy change by helping the counselee see and work on the solution with God’s activity already present in his/her lifecreate solutions with—not for—the counseleeSolution-Focused Pastoral Counseling does not require the counselor to be a highly trained psychological expert. It requires biblically based sensitivity and common sense. Yet this approach also recognizes its limitations and understands that there are situations in which other professional and/or medical help is required.This book reveals the possibility of life without the problem through an understanding of what is different when the problem does not occur or is less intrusive.