The Minister as Crisis Counselor Revised Edition - Softcover

Switzer, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687269547 ISBN 13: 9780687269549

Publisher: ABNDP - Abingdon Press, 1986

Synopsis

Long recognized as the definitive crisis-counseling volume for the active minister, The Minister as Crisis Counselor is now thoroughly modernized to incorporate recent contributions to the field.  David K. Switzer offers a comprehensive examination of both the theory and the method of crisis counseling as it relates specifically to active working pastors.

Chapter titles include: The Minister, the Congregation, and Community Crisis Services; Intervening in the Suicidal Crisis; The Minister and Divorce Crises; Intervening in a Pathological Grief Reaction: A Case Study; The Minister's Role and Functioning in the Crisis of Grief; Intervening in Family Crises; Intervention Procedures; Methods of Crisis Counseling; Crisis Theory: Definition, Description, Dynamics; The Minister as Crisis Counselor.

About this title

About the Author:

David K. Switzer is professor of pastoral theology at Perkins School of Thelogy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. A member of the Dallas Council on Alcoholism and of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Suicide and Crisis Center of Dallas, Dr. Switzer has been active in crisis counseling for a number of years.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABNDP - Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0687269547
• ISBN 13: 9780687269549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294