Brief Pastoral Counseling

by Howard W. Stone

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1994

Overview

Most pastoral counselors, clergy, and psychotherapists assume that truly effective counseling requires months or even years.

Research suggests otherwise. Studies have provided two startling findings. First, most persons come for four or fewer counseling sessions, whatever the counseling method employed. Second, the majority of any counseling’s effectiveness occurs in the opening few sessions.

Part One uses brief pastoral counseling as a framework for detailing specific issues and approaches: getting the problem clear, assigning homework between sessions, and focusing on strengths.

Part Two connects many of the typical problems encountered in parish ministry to specific counseling interventions which work in only a few sessions. Using many examples formulated out of Stone’s years of counseling experience, it allows the reader to visualize each approach and make use of it as a counseling strategy.

Key Features

• Shows any counseling’s effectiveness occurs in the opening few sessions.
• Details specific issues and approaches.
• Gives many examples formulated out of Stone’s years of counseling experience.

Product Details

• Title: Brief Pastoral Counseling: Short-Term Approach and Strategies
• Author: Howard W. Stone
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1994
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 192
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Pastoral counseling; Short-term counseling › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 0800627202, 9780800627201
• Resource ID: LLS:BRFPSTRLCNSLNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-12T18:50:16Z

About Howard W. Stone

Howard W. Stone is a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, a pastoral counselor, the author or editor of many books in the Fortress Press Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling series, and a professor emeritus at Texas Christian University.