Insight and Creativity in Biblical Counseling: A Study of the Usual and the Unique

by Jay E. Adams

Publisher:

Institute for Nouthetic Studies

, 2020

Overview

Biblical Counselors must develop two essential skills—acquiring insight into his counselees’ problem and devising creative ways to apply the truths of Scripture to that problem. Jay Adams explains why these skills are vital, but more importantly, shows how you can develop these skills. Effective counselors must grow beyond taking a “cookie-cutter” approach to counseling problems and hone the twin skills of insight and creativity in the counseling room.

Insight and creativity are not inborn qualities or special gifts, both can be learned and developed. Jay Adams will broach no excuses. If growing in effectiveness as a counselor is your goal, this book is your essential guide.

Key Features

• Focuses on the need for insight and creativity in counseling
• Explores how to develop counseling skills
• Examines how to relate biblical truths to individual situations

Contents

Part One: Insight

• What Is Insight?
• Selective Insight
• Common Problems and the Counselor’s Past
• What to Eliminate
• Bias, Tentativeness, and Insight
• Four Considerations

Part Two: Creativity

• Who Needs Creativity?
• I Don’t Have What It Takes
• Analysis and Synthesis
• Hindrances to Creativity
• The Three R’s
• Review It
• The Old and the New
• Renewal: The Condition for Creativity
• Variety and Adaptation
• Conclusion

Product Details

• Title: Insight and Creativity in Biblical Counseling: A Study of the Usual and the Unique
• Author: Jay E. Adams
• Publisher: Institute for Nouthetic Studies
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 168
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Pastoral counseling; Insight; Creative ability
• ISBNs: 9781949737128, 9781949737165, 1949737160
• Resource ID: LLS:INSGHTCRTVCNSLNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:43:30Z

About Jay E. Adams

Jay E. Adams A.B., B.D., S.T.M., Ph.D. (1929-2020) served as a pastor, church planter, denominational executive, seminary professor, author, and lecturer. He taught homiletics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and was the Director of Advanced Studies at Westminster Seminary in California. He was the founder of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF), the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (formerly NANC), and the Institute for Nouthetic Studies (INS). He was the author of over 100 books including the best seller Competent to Counsel which launched the modern biblical counseling movement. He was the recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian honor awarded by the State of South Carolina.

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