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

Culbertson, Philip L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800631870 ISBN 13: 9780800631871

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Culbertson, an Episcopal priest for more than twenty-seven years, teaches pastoral care and counseling at St. John's Theological College in New Zealand.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0800631870
• ISBN 13: 9780800631871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336