Counselling Skills for Church and Faith Community Workers

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-335-22762-4
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

This book provides an integrative model of counselling skills that can be used in the pastoral context found in church or faith communities, but may also be of value in many other contexts which recognize the spiritual dimension of people's lives. This creative model draws insights from psychodynamic, person-centred and narrative approaches to counselling.

. Part One focuses on the key tasks, skills and relational qualities that combine to make a good pastoral carer or counsellor.
. Part Two covers three key areas of specific concern in church and faith community contexts: conflicts with beliefs and values; conflicts of power and sexuality; and conflicts with guilt, shame and forgiveness.

The pastoral carer who reads this book will be better equipped to continue the vital role which they play in the life of church or faith communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ross, Alistair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Carers not counsellors

Part One

Counselling skills in the pastoral context

Chapter 2 Counselling skills for pastoral carers

Chapter 3 Starting out - the initial stage of pastoral skills
Tasks

Chapter 4 Starting out - the initial stage of pastoral skills
Skills

Chapter 5 Starting out - the initial stage of pastoral skills
Relational qualities

Chapter 6 Moving on - the intermediate stage of pastoral skills
Tasks

Chapter 7 Moving on - the intermediate stage of pastoral skills
Skills

Chapter 8 Moving on - the intermediate stage of pastoral skills
Relational qualities

Chapter 9 Letting go - the closing stage of pastoral skills
Tasks

Chapter 10 Letting go - the closing stage of pastoral skills
Skills

Chapter 11 Letting go - the closing stage of pastoral skills
Relational qualities

Part Two

Key issues in the pastoral context

Chapter 12 Conflicts with beliefs and values

Chapter 13 Conflicts of power and sexuality

Chapter 14 Conflicts with guilt, shame and forgiveness

References

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Alistair Ross is Lecturer in Counselling at Birmingham University and a BACP accredited counsellor. He is also a pastoral tutor and research fellow at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Training, Birmingham. Alistair is founding partner of the Institute of Pastoral Counselling, Nottingham. He is a Baptist minister, and for sixteen years was a minister in three churches. He has a research degree in Clinical Theology and was Director of the Bridge Pastoral Foundation (formerly the clinical Theology Association). He is currently researching the nature of pastoral supervision.