Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths
This book demonstrates how counselors can help people to use the resources they already have so they can address issues that come up in life. The authors show that most people have within themselves the strengths and resources to confront the issues positively that trouble their lives. The counseling method elicits resiliency, assets, and successful experiences from the client's past to foster positive change in the present. Case studies are included, drawn especially from marriage and family counseling.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800629779
- eBook ISBN 9781451410068
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 160
- Publication Date November 19, 1998
Endorsements
"The work that Thomas and Cockburn are suggesting in this book is cutting edge. What they are writing about, ministers will be talking about five to ten years from now. This manuscript is very creative. I am very much in favor of the Thomas/Cockburn proposal."
--Howard W. Stone
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
"Thomas and Cockburn has given counseling pastors and pastoral psychotherapists a valuable research-based systems-oriented, growth-enabling model that will help them think outside the boxes of traditional insight-oriented, pathology-based approaches to pastoral counseling and ministry. Their model focuses on short-term methods of activating people's strengths and potential resources for changing their perception of problems and taking charge of their lives."
--Howard Clinebell
Emeritus Professor
Claremont School of Theology
--Howard W. Stone
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
"Thomas and Cockburn has given counseling pastors and pastoral psychotherapists a valuable research-based systems-oriented, growth-enabling model that will help them think outside the boxes of traditional insight-oriented, pathology-based approaches to pastoral counseling and ministry. Their model focuses on short-term methods of activating people's strengths and potential resources for changing their perception of problems and taking charge of their lives."
--Howard Clinebell
Emeritus Professor
Claremont School of Theology