The Christian Counselor's Manual

by Jay E. Adams

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 1973

Overview

The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to the author's influential Competent to Counsel. It takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling:

• Who is qualified to be a counselor?
• How can counselees change?
• How does the Holy Spirit work?
• What role does hope play?
• What is the function of language?
• How do we ask the right questions?
• What often lies behind depression?
• How do we deal with anger?
• What is schizophrenia?

These and hundreds more questions are answered in this comprehensive resource for the Christian counselor. A full set of indexes, a detailed table of contents, and a full complement of diagrams and forms make this an outstanding reference book for Christian counselors.

Key Features

• Contains key principles in Christian counseling
• Bibliographical references and appendices are included in this resource

Contents

Top Highlights

“There are, in the Scriptures, only three specified sources of personal problems in living: demonic activity (principally possession), personal sin, and organic illness.” (Page 9)

“the integrity of the Scriptures as the authoritative standard for Christian counseling” (Page 18)

“Anger is a problem for every Christian; sinful anger probably is involved in 90 percent of all counseling problems” (Page 359)

“His focus of concern must be turned from himself to God and to others” (Page 374)

“First, people with long-standing problems need hope” (Page 41)

Product Details

• Title: The Christian Counselor’s Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling
• Author: Jay E. Adams
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 1973
• Logos Release Date: 2005
• Pages: 476
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Pastoral counseling
• ISBNs: 9780310499138, 0310499135
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRCNSLMAN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:38:44Z

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.