Faithful Companioning: How Pastoral Counseling Heals
An invitation to a conversation about how pastoral counseling heals in the contexts of counseling relationships, proceses, and theological commitments. With an emphasis on the hermeneutical activity that is pastoral care.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800626310
- eBook ISBN 9781451405125
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 208
- Publication Date February 1, 1994
Endorsements
"If you can read only one book about pastoral counseling this year, Faithful Companioning should be the one. It offers clinical and theological resources for carrying out and interpreting the pastoral task. He makes a great deal of sense and will help the practicing pastoral clinician also make sense of what she or he is doing in ministry."
--John Patton
Columbia Theological Seminary
"In a time when the theory and practice of psychotherapy are being increasingly mechanized, and when objectification of what goes on in the helping relationship is reaching alarming proportions, Chris Schlauch's book is a welcome and important reminder of the primacy of the quality of the therapeutic relationship itself in enabling healing and change for the better. He advocates the importance of the ability to view what goes on in psychotherapy through different spiritual and psychological lenses, and to engage respectful and collaborative."
--A. J. van den Blink
Elmira, New York
" Faithful Companioning offers a wise and articulate preface to the practice of pastoral psychotherapy useful for clinical specialists and seminarians alike. Schlauch poses critical conceptual questions for current conversations about the distinctiveness and efficacy of pastoral psychotherapy while offering original and provocative proposals to further those conversations."
--Nancy J. Ramsay
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
--John Patton
Columbia Theological Seminary
"In a time when the theory and practice of psychotherapy are being increasingly mechanized, and when objectification of what goes on in the helping relationship is reaching alarming proportions, Chris Schlauch's book is a welcome and important reminder of the primacy of the quality of the therapeutic relationship itself in enabling healing and change for the better. He advocates the importance of the ability to view what goes on in psychotherapy through different spiritual and psychological lenses, and to engage respectful and collaborative."
--A. J. van den Blink
Elmira, New York
" Faithful Companioning offers a wise and articulate preface to the practice of pastoral psychotherapy useful for clinical specialists and seminarians alike. Schlauch poses critical conceptual questions for current conversations about the distinctiveness and efficacy of pastoral psychotherapy while offering original and provocative proposals to further those conversations."
--Nancy J. Ramsay
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Context of Pastoral Clinical Care
2. Theologizing
3. Theologizing about Person
4. The Pastoral Clinical Attitude
5. The Triad of Clinical Activities
6. The Two Questions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. The Context of Pastoral Clinical Care
2. Theologizing
3. Theologizing about Person
4. The Pastoral Clinical Attitude
5. The Triad of Clinical Activities
6. The Two Questions
Notes
Bibliography
Index