The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling

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Introduction -- Part one : The persons. -- The persons involved in counseling -- The Holy Spirit is the principal person -- The human counselor -- The counselee -- Part two : The presuppositions and principles. -- Presuppositions and principles basic to counseling -- Hope -- Prayer : the base for Christian counseling -- The reconciliation/discipline dynamic -- Reconciliation -- Presuppositions and methodology -- Technique -- Part three : The practice and process. -- The language of counseling -- The language of emotion and action -- Sin is the problem -- Love in counseling -- Support, sympathy, and empathy -- The motivation for change -- Effecting biblical change -- Elements of dehabituation and rehabituation -- Getting started -- Goals and terminal dates -- The commitment of the counselee -- Is there a problem? -- Two basic approaches -- Ways of gathering data -- Asking questions -- Helping through homework -- An analysis of homework -- Ways of using homework -- Gifts that differ -- How to handle anger -- Dealing with envy, brooding, fretting, and self-pity -- Helping depressed persons -- Helping the "Schizophrenic" -- Resolving sexual difficulties -- Helping those who fear -- Counseling those who fear that they have committed the unpardonable sin -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. Personal data inventory -- Counselor's checklist -- The organic/nonorganic problem and cooperation with physicians -- Weekly counseling record -- Financial profile -- Ten statements, some of which a Christian counselor could make; others he ought not to make.