Caring for God's People (Integrating Spirituality Into

Caring for God's People (Integrating Spirituality Into Pastoral Counseling): Counseling and Christian Wholeness

Culbertson has built his text around the ideal of Christian wholeness and maturity-a healthy interconnectedness of self-within-community. The heart of the book lies in its presentation of the three schools of counseling theory that Culbertson finds most helpful: family systems theory, narrative counseling theory, and object relations theory. Each of these is explained in detail, and then applied to the most common and challenging of counseling situations: pre-marital counseling, marriage counseling, divorce counseling, counseling gay men and women, and grief counseling. Culbertson brings new sensitivities to the counseling scene-a more nuanced grasp of gender, a new sense of families, issues of sexual orientation, a strong sense of the relationship of emotions to spirituality, an empathetic attitude, a pragmatic but professional mix of ancillary theories, and a sense of the relevance of the counselor's own self-understanding.
Country USA
Manufacturer Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2000-01-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2000-01-01
Format	Kindle eBook

Caring for God's People (Integrating Spirituality Into Pastoral Counseling): Counseling and Christian Wholeness