Drawing on psychological, theological, and cultural studies on suffering, Carrie Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through trifocal lenses and include approaches that are premodern (apprehending God through religious rituals), modern (consulting rational and empirical sources), and postmodern (acknowledging the contextual nature of knowledge). Utilizing strategies from all three perspectives, Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establish the actual relationship. She then explains the steps of psychological assessment, systemic assessment, and theological reflection, and finally she delineates the basic steps for plans of care: attending to the careseeker's safety, building trust, mourning losses, and reconnecting with the ordinariness of life.
- ISBN10 0664226841
- ISBN13 9780664226848
- Publish Date 16 February 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 November 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English
- URL https://presbyterian.app.onixsuite.com/book/?GCOI=29636103663720