Understanding pastoral counseling
By: Elizabeth A. Maynard, PhD, Jill L. Snodgrass, MDiv, PhD, editors
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780826130051; 9780826130068
Subjects: Pastoral counseling; Pastoral Care; Seelsorge
Description: What are the roles, functions, and identities of pastoral counselors today? What paradigms shape their understanding of the needs of others? How can pastoral counselors serve the needs of diverse individuals in both religious and secular environments? This foundational text reflects the continued and unfolding work of pastoral counseling in both clinical and traditional ministry settings. It addresses key issues in the history, current practices, and future directions of pastoral counseling and its place among allied helping professions. Written to incorporate current changes in the roles of pastoral counselors and models of training beyond the traditional seminary, the book builds on themes of pastoral counseling as a distinct way of being in the world, understanding client concerns and experiences, and intervening to promote the health and growth of clients. The text provides a foundational overview of the roles and functions of the modern pastoral counselor.

It discusses spiritual perspectives on the issues that bring individuals to seek counseling and integrates them with the perspectives of allied mental health professions. The tools and methods pastoral counselors can employ for spiritual assessment are presented, and the book describes common spiritual and theological themes--both implicit and explicit--that arise in pastoral counseling. Included are chapters examining Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Native American, and Buddhist approaches to counseling as well as counseling individuals with diverse sexual identities. The book reflects the increasing need for pastoral counselors to serve effectively in a multicultural society, including service to individuals who are not affiliated with a specific religious denomination. The book also considers the emerging realities of distance counseling and integrated health care systems as current issues in the field.

KEY FEATURES: Presents a contemporary approach to how pastoral counselors function as mental health professionals and spiritual leaders ; Serves as a state-of-the-art foundational text for pastoral counseling education ; Describes assessments and interventions that are shared with allied mental health professionals and those that are unique to pastoral counseling ; Provides an ecumenical and interfaith approach for a multicultural society, including individuals with diverse sexual identities ; Addresses counseling with individuals who do not affiliate with a specific faith tradition ; Includes Instructor's Guide and online Student Resources to enhance teaching and learning. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. An introduction to pastoral counseling; title: Pastoral counseling : a discipline of unity amid diversity  -- Jill L. Snodgrass; title: Pastoral counseling's history  -- Loren Townsend -- Part II. Pastoral counseling : ways of being; title: Pastoral counselors : mental health professionals  -- Elizabeth A. Maynard, -- Rodney Parker -- Part III. Pastoral counseling : ways of understanding; title: The human condition : pastoral perspectives  -- Jesse Fox -- [and others]; title: The nature and function of suffering  -- Lawrence M. LeNoir; title: The challenges of being bilingual : methods of integrating psychological and religious studies  -- Carrie Doehring; title: To diagnose or not to diagnose : pastoral counseling distinctives in conceptualizing and engaging human distress  -- Thomas E. Rodgerson; title: Religious and spiritual assessment in pastoral counseling  -- Paul J. Deal, -- Gina Magyar-Russell; title: Responding to explicit and implicit spiritual content in pastoral counseling  -- Jill L. Snodgrass, -- Konrad Noronha; title: 10. Cross-cultural counseling : the importance of encountering the liminal space  -- Kari A. O'Grady, -- Kenneth White, -- Heidi Schriber-Pan -- Part IV. Pastoral counseling : ways of intervening; title: Common ground : pastoral counseling and allied professional interventions  -- Timothy S. Hanna; title: Set apart : the distinctiveness of pastoral counseling interventions  -- Christina Jones Davis; title: Pastoral counseling and spiritual direction  -- Joseph A. Stewart-Sticking -- Part V. Pastoral counseling and religious diversity; title: Religious location and counseling : engaging diversity and difference in views of religion  -- Kathleen J. Greider; title: Earning closeness with our maker : a Torah-based approach to counseling  -- Michael Lockman; title: Reframing pastoral counseling : toward developing a model of pastoral care within Muslim communities  -- Shahnaz Savani; title: 17. Kalamitra : a Buddhist approach to pastoral counseling  -- Stephen Clarke; title: Hindu approaches to pastoral counseling  -- Sharanya Udipi; title: Native American spiritualities and pastoral counseling  -- Michael T. Garrett -- [and others]; title: Pastoral counseling and queer identities  -- Jason Hays -- Part VI. Special issues in pastoral counseling; title: Referral, consultation, and collaboration  -- Elizabeth Denham Thompson; title: Shepherding the flock : supervising pastoral counselors in training  -- Danielle LaSure-Bryant; title: Understandning pastoral counseling research  -- Joanne L. Miller; title: Pastoral counseling at a distance  -- Serena A. Flores and Elizabeth A. Maynard; title: Childhood studies and pastoral counseling  -- Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore -- Part VII. The future of the discipline; title: Futures of a past : from within a more traditional pastoral counseling model  -- Joretta L. Marshall; title: Integrative psychotherapy training program : a department of spiritual care and education  -- James W. Pruett and F. Morgan Enright; title: Perspectives from beyond the field : psychology and spiritually integrated psychotherapy -- L. Mickey Fenzel.