{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"20 hot potatoes Christians are afraid to touch \/ Tony Campolo.","author":"Campolo, A.","isbn":"0849906555","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Word Pub."},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"How do we answer the challenge of AIDS? -- Why are so many people down on themselves (and what can they do about it)? -- What about women preachers? -- Can a mother of a preschool child have a career and not feel guilty (and where does dad fit into it all)? -- What do I do if I'm sexually starved? -- Is television evangelism a waste of money? -- Should we pull our kids out of the public school system? -- Can rich people get into a heaven (or, can a Christian own a BMW)? -- Does Christianity have any good news for homosexuals? -- Should preachers start preaching against sports? -- Is hunting a sin? -- When is it OK to tell the doctor to pull the plug? -- Where does a single woman over 30 go to get rid of the loneliness? -- Can Christians kill? -- Are funerals a rip-off? -- Is it OK to put your aging mother in the county home? -- Is it ever OK for divorced Christians to remarry? -- Is a lot of psychological counseling a waste of time? -- What should you do if your grownup children are making decisions that could ruin their lives? -- Are evangelicals too pro-Israel?\n\nPublished in: Dallas\n\nPhysical description: 235 p. ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A pre-marriage counselling handbook : a handbook for pastors and lay counsellors \/ Alan Goerz, with T.B. Dankwa.","author":"Goerz, Alan.; Dankwa, T. B.; Challenge Enterprises of Ghana.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Challenge Enterprises of Ghana"},"datePublished":"2000","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Accra North [Ghana]\n\nPhysical description: 170 pages : 1 illustration ; 30 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Adult children of alcoholics \/ Phyllis Tainey.","author":"Tainey, P.","isbn":"0873042220","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Family Service America"},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"Session1. Introduction ; Sharing expectations of group members : exercise one ; Mini-lecture : why are we interested in learning more about adult children of alcoholics? ; How the child is affected by the behavior of the alcoholic and nonalcoholic parent ; handouts -- Session 2. Opening the session ; \"Don't talk\" ; \"Don't feel\" ; \"Don't trust\" -- Session 3. Opening the session ; Understanding your feelings as a child and an adult ; Handouts -- Session 4. Opening the session ; Mini-lectures : \"Roles in the home\" and \"overly responsible child\" ; Exercises ; Mini-lectures : \"The acting out child\" and \"lost child or adjuster\" ; Exercise -- Opening the session ; Mascot and placater roles ; Impact of parental alcoholism on one's own ; Drinking habits and tendencies toward addictive relationships ; Handouts -- Session 6. Opening the session ; Adult-child issues ; Handout -- Session 7. Opening the session ; Abandonment issues ; Handout -- Session 8. Opening the session ; Adult children of alcoholics and impulsivity ; Treatment for adult children of alcoholics ; Self-help groups for adult children of alcoholics - ACOA and Al-Anon ; Evaluation of the workshop ; Handout.\n\nPublished in: Milwaukee, Wis.\n\nPhysical description: ix, 99 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Anger and assertiveness in pastoral care \/ David W. Augsburger.","author":"Augsburger, D. W.","isbn":"0800605624","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Fortress Press,"},"datePublished":null,"inLanguage":"English","description":"Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia\n\nPhysical description: x, 86 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Care of persons, care of worlds : a Psychosystems approach to pastoral care and counseling \/ Larry Kent Graham","author":"Graham, Larry Kent","isbn":"0687046750","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Abingdon Press"},"datePublished":"1992","inLanguage":"English","description":"Abstract: A comprehensive social and systemic foundation for pastoral and caretaking that will be an invaluable guide for the activities of parish ministers and counseling practitioners. Graham's model better interprets and responds to the interplay between individuals and the larger cultural and environmental realities which contribute to their distress and its transformation\n\nPublished in: Nashville (Tenn.)\n\nPhysical description: 266 s. : 1 illustration ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian counseling : a comprehensive guide \/ Gary R. Collins.","author":"Collins, Gary R.","isbn":"1418503290","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson Publishers"},"datePublished":"2007","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents : Part 1: Introductory issues -- The changes in counseling -- The counselor and counseling -- The church and counseling -- The community and counseling -- The core of counseling -- The legal, ethical, and moral issues in Christian counseling -- The multicultural issues in Christian counseling -- Part 2: Prominent issues -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Anger -- Guilt and forgiveness -- Loneliness -- Part 3: Developmental issues -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Twenties and thirties -- Forties and fifties -- The later years -- Part 4: Iinterpersonal issues -- Conflict and relationships -- Sex apart from marriage -- Sex within marriage -- Homosexuality -- Abuse and neglect -- Part 5: Identity issues -- Inferiority and self-esteem -- Physical illness -- Grief -- Singleness -- Choosing a marriage partner -- Part 6: Family issues -- Premarital counseling -- Marriage issues -- Pregnancy issues -- Family issues -- Divorce and remarriage -- Part 7: Control issues -- Mental disorders -- Alcohol-related problems -- Addictions -- Financial counseling -- Vocational counseling -- Part 8: Concluding issues -- Crises -- Trauma, terror, and terrorism -- Other issues -- Spiritual issues -- Counseling the counselor -- Part 9: Future issues -- Counseling waves of the future.\r\n\r\nAbstract :\"This proven guide in pastoral counseling has been extensively expanded and revised by the author to include recent developments and research, new resources, and attention to newly urgent needs such as AIDS, eating disorders, homosexuality, and violence. Written with clarity and sensitivity, this volume builds on biblical foundations and the best resources of professional psychology. It reflects the insights the author has gained from many years of Christian counseling. New Sections include: The Legal, Ethical and Moral Issues in Counseling The Multicultural, Multiracial Issues in Counseling Conflict and Relationships Dealing with Death and Grief Alcoholism and Other Substance Abuse Crises and Trauma Counseling and Terrorism.\"--Publisher's description.\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tennessee\n\nPhysical description: xv, 976 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":"Third edition.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Clinical handbook of pastoral counseling \/ Robert J. Wicks, Richard D. Parsons, Donald Capps, editors.","author":"Wicks, Robert J.; Parsons, Richard D.; Capps, Donald","isbn":"0809133512","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Paulist Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: New York\n\nPhysical description: Xi, 707p.;23cm.","bookEdition":"Expanded ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Counseling across cultures \/ edited by Paul B. Pedersen [and others].","author":"Pedersen, P.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawai"},"datePublished":"1981","inLanguage":"English","description":"Counseling across cultures \/ Juris G. Draguns -- The cultural inclusiveness of counseling \/ Paul B. Pedersen -- Cultural sensitivities in counseling \/ Edward C. Stewart -- Racial and ethnic barriers in counseling \/ Clement E. Vontress -- The self-awareness factor in intercultural psychotherapy \/ Ronald M. Wintrob and Youngsook Kim Harvey -- Intercultural psychotherapy \/ Julian Wohl -- Counseling Asian Americans \/ Harry H.L. Kitano and Noreen Matsushima -- Culturally relevant and behavioristic counseling for Chicano college students \/ Rene A. Ruiz and M. Manuel Casas -- Value differentials and their importance in counseling American Indians \/ Joseph E. Trimble -- Psychotherapy and the foreign student \/ A.A. Alexander [and others] -- Behavioral approaches to counseling across cultures \/ Howard N. Higginbotham and Junko Tanaka-Matsumi -- Psychological tests and intercultural counseling \/ Walter J. Lonner -- Research and research hypotheses about effectiveness in intercultural counseling \/ Norman D. Sundberg.\n\nPublished in: Honolulu\n\nPhysical description: x, 370 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Counseling in African-American communities : biblical perspectives on tough issues \/ Lee N. June & Sabrina D. Black, editors ; Willie Richardson, consulting","author":"June, Lee N.; Black, Sabrina D.; Richardson, W.","isbn":"0310240255","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ZondervanPublishingHouse"},"datePublished":"2002","inLanguage":"English","description":"Gambling addiction \/ Sabrina D. Black -- Sexual addiction and the internet \/ Sabrina D. Black and LaVern A. Harlin -- Dealing with addictions through the twelve steps with godly principles \/ Annette Hampton -- Substance abuse : A programmatic approach and its blessings \/ Alfred Young, Jr. -- Domestic abuse \/ Kenneth Staley and Sheila Staley -- Sexual abuse and incest \/ Deborah G. Haskins -- Divorce recovery : Grief and loss \/ Paris M. Finner-Williams -- Blended families \/ Willie Richardson -- Adultery and midlife crisis \/ Haman Cross, Jr. -- Depression and bipolar disorder \/ Julius Brooks -- Demonology and schizophrenia \/ Darrell Freeman -- Schizophrenia \/ Michael Lyles -- Attention deficit hyperactive disorder \/ Michael Lyles -- Suicide \/ Cupid Poe -- Grief and loss \/ Patricia Richardson -- Suffering for a season \/ Pamela Turnbo -- Conflicts \/ Willie Davis -- In search of a healthy and authentic faith \/ Joan Ganns -- Unemployment \/ Artis Fletcher and Blanche Ross -- Incorporating research into clinical practice \/ Lee N. June and Christopher Mathis.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 263 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Counseling people with cancer \/ Jann Aldredge-Clanton.","author":"Aldredge-Clanton, J.","isbn":"066425666x","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster Press"},"datePublished":"1998","inLanguage":"English","description":"\"In this book Jann Aldredge-Clanton brings a perspective from a theology of hope to people struggling with cancer Aldredge-Clanton believes that in the midst of a frightening illness, our spiritual task is to reunderstand our life story in light of the sacred story of God's love in the world. She investigates the images of God held by cancer patients and finds ways to connect their stories to these rich and renewing sacred stories.\" \"This book is full of practical insights to enable pastors and pastoral counselors to help persons cope with the diagnosis and experience of cancer.\"--Jacket.\n\nPublished in: louiseville\n\nPhysical description: ix, 157 pages ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}