Practical Psychology for Pastors
by William R. Miller and Kathleen A. Jackson
For courses in pastoral counseling in departments of psychology, education, counseling, social work, or in religious training programs. Broadly applicable across doctrines and denominations, this text explains how pastors can use the current knowledge, research, methods, and skills of modern psychology in the process of pastoring. Highly practical in approach, it goes beyond theory and general description to provide specific how-to advice on dealing with common counseling challenges.
Christ-Centered Therapy
by Neil T T Anderson, Terry E E Zuehlke, and Julie Zuehlke
Sexual Misconduct in Counselling and Ministry (Contemporary Christian Counseling)
by Peter Mosgofian and George W. Ohlschlager
This book is really a text book for anyone involved or interested in Christian counselling. Both the authors teach the subject at a theological seminary in the States. Their influences include Jay Adams, a leading Christian psychologist, and Francis Schaeffer. This model of psychology is very much more prescriptive than anything in secular counselling, or in many Christian circles, but the authors are consistent in their approach and they have been teaching the material for many years. There are...
Spiritual support for those suffering from addiction in all its forms, through scripture passages, reflections, and prayers.
A History of Pastoral Care
A history of 2000 years of thought and practice in the Christian pastoral ministry. Until comparatively late in that story the bulk of the formative thinking took place in the Middle East and in Europe and this forms the background for the developments in understanding of human nature, and the ways in which this has influenced our thinking in pastoral care. Subjects covered range from the Biblical foundations to the sects and new religious movements, from the Fathers, the monks, the Friars and t...