TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doehring,Carrie
TI  - The practice of pastoral care: a postmodern approach 
SN  - 9780664238407
AV  - BV4011.3 .D64 2015
U1  - 253 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Louisville, Kentucky
PB  - Westminster John Knox Press
KW  - Pastoral care
KW  - Pastoral counseling
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index; Intercultural care : trust and theological accountability -- Basic ingredients of caregiving relationships -- Embodied listening -- Establishing a caregiving relationship -- Theological themes and reflexivity -- Narrative themes of loss, violence, and coping -- Systematic assessment -- Planning care : liberative spiritual integration
N2  - The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establishing the actual relationship. This new edition elaborates on and expands the author's previous work, adding an intercultural perspective that gives more attention to religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. It offers a road map for using a step-by-step narrative, relational, embodied approach to spiritual care that respects the unique ways people live out their values and beliefs, especially in coping with stress, loss, and violence. Readers will be able to confidently and professionally offer pastoral care and counseling to members of their congregations or other places of ministry
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