Contents: "Can you talk with me?" -- The counselee's experience of counseling -- The pastoral counselor as witness -- A gracious nonchalance: regarding the counselee "as is" and "as though" -- Empowering by tracking feelings -- Ambivalence, resistance, and re-covery -- Getting started: precounseling or counseling? -- Counseling as God's call. Abstract: In this invaluable resource for pastors and seminarians, Jamess Dittes offers answers to some of a minister's most basic counseling questions: How do I guide conseling conversations yet empower those who feel helpless? How do I negotiate relationships with people who I may counsel on one day and from whom I must seek a housing allowance on the next? Can I be psychologically adept while remaining theologically faithful? Offering a wealth of insight into these and other fundamental issues, Dittes suggests that pastoral counseling "is, finally, more a matter of the heart or the soul than the head, more a matter of faith than works, an attitude and posture more than a technique or skill". - from back cover. Published in: Louisville, Ky. Physical description: xii, 161 pages ; 19 cm.

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