Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling) - Softcover

Cockburn, Jack

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9780800629779: Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800629779 ISBN 13: 9780800629779
Publisher: Fortress Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book demonstrates how counselors can help people to use the resources they already have so they can address issues that come up in life. The authors show that most people have within themselves the strengths and resources to confront the issues positively that trouble their lives. The counseling method elicits resiliency, assets, and successful experiences from the client's past to foster positive change in thepresent. Case studies are included, drawn especially from marriage and family counseling.

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About the Authors

Jack Cockburn, Ph.D. is a licensed professional counselor in the psychology department at PRIDE, Dallas Texas. He is the author of several research articles in the area of family therapy.



Frank A. Thomas is Senior Pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Church, Disciples of Christ, located in Memphis, Tennessee. A prominent preacher and speaker on subjects of church administration and homiletics, he has also authored They Like to Never Quit Praisin' God: The Role of Celebration in Preaching (1997).

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Publisher
Fortress Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0800629779
ISBN 13 
9780800629779
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160
Editor
Thomas Frank A.
Rating
  • 3.67 out of 5 stars
    9 ratings by Goodreads