{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Pastoral counseling : the basics \/ James E. Dittes.","author":"Dittes, James E.","isbn":"0664257380","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster John Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1999","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \t\"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.\r\n \r\nAbstract: 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.\n\nPublished in: Louisville, Ky.\n\nPhysical description: xii, 161 pages ; 19 cm.","bookEdition":"1st ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"}}