At head of title: American Association of Christian Counselors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [725]-793) and index.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Competent Christian Counseling
Prologue: Smorgasbord Spirituality Versus the Road Less Traveled
George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton
Part 1: Introduction to Christian Counseling
1. Christian Counseling and Compassionate Soul Care: The Case for Twenty-First-Century Practice
Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager
2. Competent Christian Counseling: Definitions and Dynamics
Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager
3. The New Christian Counselors: Who we are and What We Do to Help Others
George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton
Part II: The Root Foundations of Christian Counseling
4. Theological Roots: Synthesizing and Systematizing a Biblical Theology of Helping
Ron Hawkins, Edward Hindson, and Tim Clinton
5. Roots of Spirituality: Spiritual Formation in Scripture, The Church and Counseling
Edward Hindson, George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton
6. Biological Roots: Psyhiatric Medicine, the Brain and Drug Treatments
Michael R. Lyles
7. Psyhosocial Roots: From Theoretical Schools to a Clinical Superscience
Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager
Part III: The Christian Counseling Relationship
8. The Essential Helping Relaionship: Secrets to Counselor Character and Competence - Anthropology
Gary W. Moon and Freda Crews
9. The Empathic Christian Counselor: Skilled Helpers Influencihg ClientAction - Atmosphere
Jan Hook and George Ohlschlager
10. The Emprowered helping Relationship: Fostering Client Change Through Clinical-Spiritual Interventions - Acvocacy
Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager
11. The Ethical Helping Relationship: Ethical Conformation and Spiritual Transformation - Accountability
George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton
Part IV: The Process and Practice of Christuian Counseling
12. Intake and Assessment: Global Evaluation of Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Life - Attending, Assessment, Aligment
Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager
13. Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Planning: Uses and Limits of the DSM System - Analysis and Agenda Setting
Miriam Stark Parent and Tim Clinton
14. Change by Solution-Based Brief Therapy: Basic Principles and Beginning Treatment - Application
Gary. J. Oliver and John Carmack
15. change in Process: Working from a Biblical Model of TRUTH in Action - Action
Leslie Vernick and Chris Thurman
16. Change as Paradox: Overcoming Client Resistance and Fear of Change - Adversity
George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton
Part V: The Major Modalities of Christian Counseling: Soul Care Centered in the Church
Ron Hawkins, Edward Hindson, and Tim Clinton
18. Lay Helping: The Whole Church in Soul-Care Ministry
Siang-Yang Tan
19. Group Work: Counseling and Church-Based Discipling in Small Groups
Joseph A. Kloba
20. Christian Marriage and Marital Counseling: Promoting Hope in Lifelong Commitments
Everett L. Worthington Jr. and Jenifer S. Ripley
21. The Second-Half Marriage: Helping Couples Transition into the Empty-Nest Tears
Claudia Arp and David Arp
22. Sexuality and Sexual Therapy: Learning and Practicing the DEC-R Model
Douglas E. Rosenau, Michael Sytsma, and Debra L. Taylor
23. Families and Family Therapy: Understanding and Growing a Christian Social System
David Stoop
24.Child Therapy I: The Mandate to Work with the Next Generation
Grant L. Martin and Daniel S. Sweeney
25. Child Therapy II: Treating Traumatized Children with Play Therapy
Daniel S. Sweeney
26. Counseling Adolescents: Serving the Struggle for Identity and Place in the World
Les Parrot and Leslie Parrott
27. Child Psychopharmatology: What Counselors Need to Know about Treating Children and Adolescents
Daniel S. Sweenery and Ross J. Tatum
28. Crisis Interventio and Emergency Practice: Issues and Interventions
H. Norman Wright
29. The World at Our Doorstep: Multicultural Counseling and Special Populations
Kathi T. Erwin, Wei-Jen Huang, and Diane L. S. Lin
Part VI: Strengthening the Future of Christian Counseling
30. Research in Chrictian Counseling: Proving and Promoting Our Valued Cause
Ian F. Jones
31. Supervisionand Training: Raising Up the Next Generation of Christian Counselors
Virginia Todd Holeman
32. Christian Counseling Practice Management: How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying
Dwight Bain
33. The Maturation of Christian Counseling: Envisioning a Preferred Future
Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager
Epilogue: Profile of a Shepherd-Counselor: Lessons Learned from the Good Shepherd
Diane Langberg
Notes
References and Recomended Reading
Executive editors and Contributors
Index

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