The Pastoral Counseling Treatment Planner

An invaluable resource for both religious leaders who providecounseling to parishioners and secular counselors who incorporatespirituality in their practice

For pastoral counselors and clergy people seeking to learn abouteffective therapeutic techniques, The Pastoral Counseling TreatmentPlanner is a lifesaver. And for secular therapists integratingelements of their client′s spiritual beliefs system into thetreatment process, this book can guide the way.

Patterned after the bestselling The Complete PsychotherapyTreatment Planner, this resource draws on a variety of Westernreligious belief systems, and offers step–by–step guidelines oncounseling clients and parishioners through a variety of lifedilemmas. This sourcebook is organized around 31 of the most commonproblems people seek counseling for, including life challenges,such as marital conflict, grief, and chronic illness, as well aschallenges of faith. For each problem, behavioral definitions andpotential counseling goals are provided, along with dozens ofsuggested interventions many of which draw upon the client′sfaith as a source ofhealing. This unique counseling aid alsofeatures:

More than 1,000 well–crafted treatment planning components formany of life′s thorniest problems A sample counseling plan that can be emulated by bothexperienced counselors and novices Pages afford plenty of space to record customized counselinggoals, objectives, and interventions

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Adult Child Disappointment.

Aging Parents.

Anger Toward God.

Chemical Dependence.

Child′s Medical Condition.

Chronic Illness.

Death of Child.

Death of Spouse.

Dependent Adult Child.

Depression.

Divorce.

Family Conflict.

Financial Crisis.

Guilt.

Infertility.

Interpersonal Hurt.

Legal Problems.

Loneliness.

Marital Conflict.

Medical Condition.

Mental Illness in Family.

Parent–Child Conflict/Adolescence.

Prayer Struggles.

Premarital Counseling.

Religion/Spirituality Differences.

Sexual Abuse Victim.

Sexual Orientation Conflict.

Spiritual Doubts.

Suicidal Ideation.

Unemployment.

Unwanted Pregnancy.

Appendix.

About the Disk.

JAMES R. KOK, MA, MDiv, DD, is a trained pastoral counselor and head of Care Ministries at the Crystal Cathedral Congregation, in Garden Grove, California. ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, Jr., PhD, is a clinical psychologist and coauthor of the bestselling The Complete Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, The Child and Adolescent Treatment Planner, and TheraScribe 3.0 for Windows: The Computerized Assistant to Psychotherapy Treatment Planning.