Cross-Cultural Counseling
For the busy pastor, this volume outlines sensitivities, awarenesses, and skills fundamental to this type of helping process. Issues such as identity, sense of belonging, worldview, identification, family counseling, and use of biblical resources are discussed and illustrated with a wide variety of vivid cases.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800626662
- eBook ISBN 9781451403404
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 96
- Publication Date March 29, 1996
Endorsements
"Aart van Beek, a pastoral counselor, consultant, educator, and theologian with rich experience in the southwestern United States and in Southeast Asia has authored a practical guide for caregivers. His book offers hands-on ways to attend, empathize, assess, understand, intervene, and to integrate these insights and skills into one's own worldview, theory, and theology. An ambitious task for so few pages, but his goal is achieved."
--David W. Augsburger
Fuller Theological Seminary
--David W. Augsburger
Fuller Theological Seminary
Excerpts
"Intercultural conflicts are proliferating in our increasingly pluralistic, multicultural society and world. Clergy in many settings are confronting unprecedented opportunities to be agents of reconciliation and healing in their ministry with people from ethnic, language, class, and religious backgrounds radically different from their own. All this makes Aart van Beek's book a valuable contribution to the sparse resources in this area of pastoral care and counseling."
--Howard Clinebell
from the Foreword
--Howard Clinebell
from the Foreword