Competent to Counsel : Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling

by Jay E. Adams

• ISBN13: 9780310511403
• ISBN10: 0310511402
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-07-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

A Classic in the Field of Christian CounselingCompetent to Counsel has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypersons, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems.Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of the counselee. As Dr. Jay Adams points out in his introduction, "I have been engrossed in the project of developing biblical counseling and have uncovered what I consider to be a number of important scriptural principles. . . . There have been dramatic results. . . . Not only have people's immediate problems been resolved, but there have also been solutions to all sorts of long-term problems as well."Since its first publication in 1970, this book has gone through over thirty printings. It establishes the basis for and an introduction to a counseling approach that is being used in pastors' studies, in counseling centers, and across dining room tables throughout the country and around the world

Table of Contents

List of Diagrams and Charts	vii
Introduction	xi
Christianity and Psychiatry Today	1	(19)
Psychiatry Is in Trouble	1	(3)
The Freudian Ethic	4	(6)
Freudian Theory and Therapy	10	(3)
The Revolution in Psychology	13	(2)
Freud: An Enemy, not a Friend	15	(2)
Where Does This Leave Us?	17	(3)
The Holy Spirit and Counseling	20	(6)
Counseling Is the Work of the Spirit	20	(1)
How Does the Holy Spirit Work in Counseling?	21	(1)
The Holy Spirit Work through Means	21	(1)
The Holy Spirit's Work Is Sovereign	22	(1)
The Holy Spirit Works by means of His Word	23	(3)
What Is Wrong with the Mentally Ill?	26	(15)
The Case of Leo Held	26	(2)
Mental Illness: A Misnomer	28	(1)
People with Personal Problems Often Use Camouflage	29	(6)
Homosexuality Fits the Pattern	35	(1)
Adrenachrome or Schizophrenia?	36	(5)
What Is Nouthetic Counseling?	41	(24)
Nouthetic Confrontation: By the Whole Church	41	(1)
Peculiarly the Work of the Ministry	42	(2)
Three Elements in Nouthetic Confrontation	44	(6)
Nouthesis and the Purpose of Scripture	50	(2)
Nouthetic Involvement	52	(2)
Love Is the Goal	54	(1)
Authoritative Counseling	55	(1)
Failure in Nouthetic Confrontation	56	(2)
Some Reasons for Failure	58	(1)
Qualifications for Counseling	59	(3)
Pastoral Applications	62	(3)
The Pastor as a Nouthetic Counselor	65	(13)
What Is a Pastor?	65	(2)
Evangelism and Counseling	67	(3)
Nouthetic Evangelism	70	(3)
Sanctification and Counseling	73	(1)
Sanctification Means Change	74	(4)
Nouthetic and Rogerian Counseling	78	(27)
Rogers' Basic Presupposition	81	(2)
Responsibility Is Respondability	83	(1)
No Neutrality	84	(3)
What About Listening?	87	(3)
Who Is Really Client-centered?	90	(3)
Feeling and Behavior	93	(3)
The Nervous System Corresponds to the Nouthetic Approach	96	(1)
Proverbs: A Book of Directive Counseling	97	(3)
Methodology Grows out of Presuppositions	100	(5)
Confess Your Sins	105	(23)
James 5:14	105	(2)
What About Oil?	107	(1)
Not All Sickness Related to Particular Sins	108	(1)
Nouthetically Confronting the Sick	109	(1)
Confessing to Others	110	(2)
Allow No Minimizing	112	(1)
Securing Help	113	(1)
Psychosomatic Illness	114	(2)
Depression	116	(3)
Happiness Through Confession	119	(3)
Proverbs	122	(1)
Counseling Others	123	(1)
Parents Counseling Children	124	(4)
Solving Problems Nouthetically	128	(65)
Man's Basic Problem	128	(3)
You Can't Say Can't	131	(6)
Hope	137	(7)
Cyclical Movement	144	(4)
Three Dimensions of Problems	148	(3)
The Past May Be the Present	151	(2)
Total Structuring	153	(3)
Discipline	156	(14)
Break Downs are Break Ups	170	(5)
Secondary Matters	175	(2)
Problem Solving through Modeling	177	(5)
Industry or Institutionalization?	182	(2)
Child Training	184	(4)
Code of Conduct	188	(5)
Some Principles of Nouthetic Techniques	193	(18)
Leading the Client to Self-Discipline	193	(5)
Recording Progress	198	(1)
Generalizing	199	(1)
Take One Thing at a Time	200	(4)
Team Counseling	204	(3)
The Pastor as a Team Counselor	207	(1)
Non-verbal Communication	208	(3)
Communication and Multiple Counseling	211	(41)
The Present Problem	211	(6)
God's Solution for His Church	217	(3)
Anger and Resentment	220	(8)
Attacking Problems Instead of People	228	(3)
The Conference Table	231	(5)
Multiple Counseling	236	(5)
Clients as Counselors	241	(4)
If Only One Will Come	245	(2)
Daily Devotions	247	(1)
Compatibility in Marriage	248	(4)
Christian School Teachers as Nouthetic Counselors	252	(16)
Begin with Proper Assumptions	253	(2)
Definition of Counseling as Help in Problem Solving	255	(1)
Dynamics of Habit as Asset	256	(1)
Integration First in the Teacher's Life	257	(1)
The Discipling Method	258	(3)
How God May Use the Teacher	261	(1)
Disciplining Through Structure	262	(1)
Few Rules Needed	262	(2)
Interpersonal Relations in the Classroom	264	(1)
Communication	265	(1)
Multiple Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences	266	(2)
Conclusion	268	(3)
Personal Data Inventory Form	271	(4)
General Index	275	(8)
Scripture Index	283	(3)
Index of Names	286