Counselling Skills for Church and Faith Community Workers

by Ross, Alistair

• ISBN13: 9780335200559
• ISBN10: 0335200559
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

This book provides an integrative model of counselling skills that can be used in the pastoral context found in church or faith communities, but may also be of value in other contexts which recognize the spiritual dimension of people's lives.

Author Biography

Alistair Ross is Lecturer in Counselling at Birmingham University and a BACP accredited counsellor. He is also a pastoral tutor and research fellow at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Training, Birmingham. Alistair is founding partner of the Institute of Pastoral Counselling, Nottingham. He is a Baptist minister, and for sixteen years was a minister in three churches. He has a research degree in Clinical Theology and was Director of the Bridge Pastoral Foundation (formerly the clinical Theology Association). He is currently researching the nature of pastoral supervision.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements	vii
Chapter 1 Carers not counsellors	1	(12)
Part One Counselling skills in the pastoral context	13	(100)
Chapter 2 Counselling skills for pastoral carers	15	(9)
Chapter 3 Starting out - the initial stage of pastoral skills
Tasks	24	(10)
Chapter 4 Starting out - the initial stage of pastoral skills
Skills	34	(13)
Chapter 5 Starting out - the initial stage of pastoral skills
Relational qualities	47	(7)
Chapter 6 Moving on - the intermediate stage of pastoral skills
Tasks	54	(16)
Chapter 7 Moving on - the intermediate stage of pastoral skills
Skills	70	(7)
Chapter 8 Moving on - the intermediate stage of pastoral skills
Relational qualities	77	(7)
Chapter 9 Letting go - the closing stage of pastoral skills
Tasks	84	(8)
Chapter 10 Letting go - the closing stage of pastoral skills
Skills	92	(8)
Chapter 11 Letting go - the closing stage of pastoral skills Relational qualities	100	(13)
Part Two Key issues in the pastoral context	113	(58)
Chapter 12 Conflicts with beliefs and values	115	(17)
Chapter 13 Conflicts of power and sexuality	132	(19)
Chapter 14 Conflicts with guilt, shame and forgiveness	151	(20)
References	171	(8)
Index	179