Engaging A Brief Counseling Approach as a Model for Pastoral Ministry in the Congregational Setting
Author: Charles Chiew
ISBN: 978-1-929569-42-4
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 113
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Cloverdale Books
Price: $14.95 In Stock
Book Description
The Author investigates how the trend toward brief forms of psychotherapy has progressed, and has become the model form of treatment. For many decades, effective psychotherapy was considered to be a long-term process, while short-term therapy had been viewed essentially as superficial. This has changed. For a variety of reasons, short-term therapy is now becoming acceptable, and has many advantages: it is effective, enduring, economical, and humane. Brief pastoral counseling methods, applied to people in the parish setting, are not only as good as longer methods, but are equally effective. It is imperative that brief methods should be the approach of first choice for clergy in congregational settings.
Praise for this book
With insight and wisdom drawn from
Theology and Behavioral Sciences, Charles Chiew offers an excellent model
of brief Pastoral Counseling showing how it is related and essential to
Parish Ministry. This timely book strikes a deep cord giving voice to
the contemporary needs of Pastors, Pastoral Ministers and Chaplains.
~ Beverly Musgrave, PhD
Fordham University
Dr. Chiew’s book provides a solid rationale
for brief, effective pastoral counseling in a congregational setting.
Dr. Chiew’s work is sure to be a standard reference wherever pastoral counseling is taught.
~ Thomas E. Legere, PhD
Author of Living An Authentic Life