Counseling Model
A Practical Pastoral Counseling Model
Counseling Setting
Where Will Counseling Take Place?
Boundaries for Safety and Security
Relational Style
Relational/Communication Style
Structure/Strategy
Sessions
Summation
Supportive Feedback
God's Riches at Christ's Expense
Annotated Bibliography
A Practical Pastoral Counseling Model
This is an overview of the counseling position that I will take when working with clients/parishioners. I realize that this cannot encompass every eventuality that may occur during a counseling session, but it should be comprehensive enough to account for most of the possibilities that present themselves. I acknowledge that this is also the treatise of someone who is going to be practicing as a pastor first and a counselor second, therefore the relationship of a shepherd to his assigned sheep is the most important consideration in all of this. Also, the counseling relationship that a pastor enjoys with a parishioner is not as extensive as that between a patient...
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