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The Christian Counselor's Manual

by Jay E. Adams

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 1973

ISBN: 9780310499138

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Overview

The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to the author's influential Competent to Counsel. It takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling:

Who is qualified to be a counselor?
How can counselees change?
How does the Holy Spirit work?
What role does hope play?
What is the function of language?
How do we ask the right questions?
What often lies behind depression?
How do we deal with anger?
What is schizophrenia?

These and hundreds more questions are answered in this comprehensive resource for the Christian counselor. A full set of indexes, a detailed table of contents, and a full complement of diagrams and forms make this an outstanding reference book for Christian counselors.

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Contains key principles in Christian counseling
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Top Highlights

“There are, in the Scriptures, only three specified sources of personal problems in living: demonic activity (principally possession), personal sin, and organic illness.” (Page 9)

“the integrity of the Scriptures as the authoritative standard for Christian counseling” (Page 18)

“Anger is a problem for every Christian; sinful anger probably is involved in 90 percent of all counseling problems” (Page 359)

“His focus of concern must be turned from himself to God and to others” (Page 374)

“First, people with long-standing problems need hope” (Page 41)

Jay E. Adams (PhD, University of Missouri) is Former Director of Advanced Studies and Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, as well as a retired pastor. He has written over fifty books on pastoral ministry, preaching, counseling, Bible study, and Christian living. His books include How to Help People Change, Preaching with Purpose, and Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible.