Journal of Pastoral Counseling articles from January 1 2001

Journal of Pastoral Counseling archives from January 1 2001

Loving Your Job, Finding Your Passion: Work and the Spiritual Life by Joseph Allegretti (Paulist Press).
January 1, 2001... Whether a bricklayer or brain surgeon, people want their jobs, in and of themselves, to mean something. People want to feel good about what they do, they want jobs that express who they are, and they want jobs that don't force them to be one...

Adolescents in Crisis by G. Wade Rowatt Jr. (Westmister John Knox Press 2001).
January 1, 2001... The book is written to parents, teachers, ministers, chaplains, pastoral counselors and family counselors who need to acquire specifics, strategies and, above all, need to be taught how to avoid doing damage. Practical, psychological and...

Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling by Howard Stone. (Augsburg Fortress, 2001).
January 1, 2001... The book is divided into three panels: the case for Brief Pastoral Counseling, a presentation of brief counseling strategies, and a contextual view of the Congregational setting. The book argues the main benefit of brief pastoral counseling...

A Native American Theology.
January 1, 2001... by Clara Sue Kidwell, Homer Noley, and George E. "Tink" Tinker. (Orbis Books 2001) This is a text significant in its conception, notable in its depth, and instructive in its Execution. Modestly and wisely presented as "a" Native American...

Encounters with Amal: an experience of listening to Moslem adolescents in a Christian context. **.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION "... how confining and distressing life can be without a glimpse of naja'a and a restful oasis of amal." Naja'a and Amal are Arabic words for hope. Naja'a refers to the distant future. Amal refers to that which is near or...

PREPARE, PREPARE-MC, ENRICH, and MATE.(marriage counseling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PREPARE, PREPARE-MC, ENRICH, and MATE were designed to help counselors and clergy work with premarital and married couples by focusing on critical relationship issues. Test results help increase awareness of both strength and growth areas, open...

What works in premarital counseling?
January 1, 2001... Introduction: "In America over the last thirty years, we've done something unprecedented. We have managed to transform marriage, the most basic and universal of human institutions, into something controversial." This is the opening...

Beyond counseling: spiritual direction.
January 1, 2001... This essay starts with a summary of what counseling (in most of its varied forms) can hope to achieve and its limitations. A brief exposition of elements of Ignatian Spirituality follows centering on the features of Ignatian spirituality that...

Psychology versus Religion.
January 1, 2001... Psychologists use scientific research methods in order to describe, predict, and understand peoples' behaviors, feelings, and thoughts. Scientific methods are used because they are reasonably objective, public, and can give reliable results. We...

Positive psychology: a paradigm shift.
January 1, 2001... Current psychological practice focuses almost exclusively on pathology. Practitioners are concerned about treating a patient's mental illness within a disease framework. Concentrating on what is wrong has left little room for examining what is...

Introduction.
January 1, 2001... Our journal goes to press with the world still reeling from the events that began on September 11, 2001. Whatever may help us wrestle with our national confusion may help us as counselors as we continue to deal with the aftermath. The symbolic...