Mobile Ed: CO105 Introducing Christian Counseling (5 hour course - audio)
Overview
In Introducing Christian Counseling: A Worldview Approach (CO105) Dan Zink exposes learners to the foundations and features of Christian counseling, surveying the big ideas of people, problems, change, and help. Dr. Zink addresses questions like, What is the purpose of the gospel? How do thinking and feeling relate to one another and what implications does this have for counseling? What role do emotions play in a well-balanced life? Why is empathy so important and how do we grow in it? and, When is it appropriate for a counselor to break confidentiality?
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Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
- State the purpose of the gospel and the goal of Christian counseling
- Express what it means to live in a relationship-centered world and the implications this has for counseling
- Discuss the role of the heart, emotions, and personality and how they relate to counseling
- Explain what the thinking-feeling ecosystem is and how it relates to counseling
- Help counselees identify and overcome their problems
- Summarize how counseling is a collaborative conversation
- Describe five ways to grow as a counselor
- List some practical ways to keep counseling safe
- Provide some practical suggestions for surviving as a pastoral counselor
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and Course
- Three Areas of Needed Growth
Unit 1: Foundations of Christian Counseling
- The Gospel’s Purpose
- A Relationship-Centered World
- Grace Deeply
- What Counseling Is Not
- What Counseling Is
Unit 2: People
- Understanding People—The Heart
- The Thinking—Feeling Ecosystem
- Understanding Emotions
- Emotional Intelligence
- Seeing the Heart as Ecosystem
- Seeing the Person as Embedded in an Ecosystem
- Understanding Personality
Unit 3: Problems
- Understanding Problems
- The Problem—Reactivity
- The Problem Underneath
Unit 4: Change
- Understanding Change
- Grief First, then Forgiveness
- Leading Toward Grief
Unit 5: Helping
- Heart-Focused Counseling
- Counseling Is a Conversation
- Counseling Is a Collaborative Conversation
- Conversation Goals
- Conversation Goals: Presence
- Pursuing Empathy
- Growing Your Empathy
- Listening for Feelings
- Thinking about Questions
- Reaching Underneath with Questions
- Keeping Counseling Safe: Part 1
- Keeping Counseling Safe: Part 2
- Surviving Pastoral Counseling: Part 1
- Surviving Pastoral Counseling: Part 2
- Surviving Pastoral Counseling: Part 3
Conclusion
- Conclusion to the Course
Product Details
- Title: CO105 Introducing Christian Counseling: A Worldview Approach (audio)
- Instructor: Dan Zink
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2019
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Audio
- Length: 5 hours
Partially included
Dr. Daniel W. Zink is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Counseling at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. His courses at Covenant have included Intro to Counseling, Marriage and Family Counseling, and Crisis and Transition.
Prior to arriving at Covenant, he served for 11 years as a family counselor, caseworker, and supervisor of public children's services. Dr. Zink was also the founding director and a five-year head of New Hope Counseling Services, a ministry of Chesterfield Presbyterian Church. He has been involved in the Christian education programs of four churches and has served as assistant pastor.
Dr. Zink is an informal consultant to counselors and churches starting church-based counseling centers. He has also written articles and presented widely on aspects of marriage and parenting. He is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors.
Dr. Zink holds a BA in Social Work from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA; an MSW from Ohio State; an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary; and a PhD in Counseling and Family Therapy from Saint Louis University, where his doctoral research focused on enduring marriages of adult children of divorce.