Fortress Press

Hidden Spring: The Spiritual Dimension of Therapy, Second Edition

Thomas Hart (Author)

Increasingly pastoral counselors—along with psychotherapists and social workers—feel the need to integrate spirituality into their therapy. Thomas...

In Times of Crisis and Sorrow: A Minister's Manual Resource Guide

Carol Norén (Author), James Cox (Foreword by)

In Times of Crisis and Sorrow: A Minister's Manual Resource Guide is a much-needed desk reference that takes an ecumenical approach and includes a wealth of examples and valuable material such as Scripture readings, poetry, prayers, eulogies, sermons, and testimonials.

Integrative Family Therapy

David C. Olsen (Author)

Pastoral counselors, therapists-in-training and clergy are usually introduced to one method of family assessment and treatment, which works better in some...

Jobs Lost, Faith Found: A Spiritual Resource for the Unemployed

Mary C. Lindberg (Author)

Jobs Lost, Faith Found is for those who feel alone due to job loss. It is also for those who offer respect, companionship, guidance, and resources to the unemployed. Mary C. Lindberg draws on her family's experience of unemployment and the wisdom of many others to help readers discover a sense of worth and purpose on their way to a new job. Prayers, insights, stories, and reflections take readers from uncertainty to hope.

Listening Ministry: Rethinking Pastoral Leadership

Susan K. Hedahl (Author)

This book presents a unique blend of theological reflection on listening, new and tested research on listening as it relates to church leadership, and...

Lives Entrusted: An Ethic of Trust for Ministry

Barbara J. Blodgett (Author)

Behind all the issues of ministerial conduct and character lies a simple reality. The heart of ministerial ethics and integrity, argues Barbara Blodgett, is...

Living Stories: Pastoral Counseling in Congregational Context

Donald Capps (Author)

Pastoral counseling, Donald Capps believes, should not be just another service—like chartered tours—that churches provide for their members. Rather,...

Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families

Robert H. Albers (Editor), William H. Meller (Editor), Steven D. Thurber (Editor)

Those who are afflicted as well as those who are adversely affected by mental illness often live lives of "quiet desperation" without recourse to appropriate assistance...

Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century

Lynne M. Baab (Author)

Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care with stories about Christian caregivers meeting those challenges in creative ways. Baab also presents four practical skills pastoral carers need: to understand common stressors, to listen, to pray with others, and to nurture their personal resilience. In each chapter, she offers discussion question as well as tips for readers who are training other pastoral carers.

Nurturing Hope brings readers hope for their caring role and their own spiritual journey.

Pastoral Care and Counseling with Latino/as

R. Esteban Montilla (Author)

The Latino population is a pastorally challenging polyculture. This diversity requires spiritual caregivers to approach every Hispanic individual with...

Pastoral Care and the Means of Grace

Ralph L. Underwood (Author)

The emphasis on pastoral freedom is nearly spent?and found wanting. Many caregivers today are seeking to balance such freedom with a sense of God's...

Pastoral Care Emergencies

David K. Switzer (Author)

David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative and practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies...

Pastoral Care of Alcohol Abusers

Harold G. Koenig (Author), Andrew J. Weaver (Author)

Over 120 million American teens and adults use alcohol at one time or another. While in most situations these individuals are able to use it responsibly and...

Pastoral Care of Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families

David K. Switzer (Author)

This book, written by a pastoral theologian with years of experience in counseling gay and lesbian individuals and their families, assist both pastoral...

Pastoral Care of Older Adults

Harold G. Koenig (Author), Andrew J. Weaver (Author)

By the year 2000 more than half of mainline Protestants will be over the age of sixty. Older adults have special needs to which many pastors are not...

Pastoral Diagnosis: A Resource for Ministries of Care and Counseling

Nancy J. Ramsay (Author)

Pastoral Diagnosis is the first book-length analysis of pastoral assessment of parishioners' presenting problems to be published in the last two decades. In...

Pastoral Visitation

Nancy J. Gorsuch (Author)

Clergy, students of pastoral care, and lay visitation volunteers will find Nancy Gorsuch an effective guide in developing an intentional, proactive program...

Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

Jeanne Hoeft (Author), L. Shannon Jung (Author), Joretta L. Marshall (Author)

Small towns and rural areas have particular challenges, and in seeking to live out the Christian life in the midst of those, local churches have unique and useful insights into what it means to care for one another.

Preaching God's Compassion: Comforting Those Who Suffer

LeRoy H. Aden (Author), Robert G. Hughes (Author)

This is a book about human suffering and the church's efforts to minister to those who are suffering. It uses the resources of contemporary pastoral care to...

Premarital Guidance

Charles W. Taylor (Author)

Deeply rooted in the traditions of the church, Charles Taylor brings both the resources of faith and the skills of contemporary psychology to bear in the...