The Practice of Pastoral Care, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Postmodern Approach

Are you looking to enhance your skills in pastoral care and counseling? Look no further than The Practice of Pastoral Care, Revised and Expanded Edition. This popular seminary textbook is not only a valuable resource for courses in pastoral care but also serves as a comprehensive manual for clinical pastoral education. With its trifocal lens approach, incorporating premodern, modern, and postmodern perspectives, this book will transform your ministry and counseling practices.

Doehring, the expert author of this revised edition, walks you through the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship and provides a roadmap for developing the essential skill of listening and establishing a genuine connection. Unlike any other pastoral care book, this edition places emphasis on an intercultural perspective, acknowledging the importance of religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. This will equip you to offer spiritual care to individuals of diverse backgrounds, ensuring that no one's beliefs are overlooked.

In this book, you'll gain valuable insights on how to incorporate a step-by-step narrative, relational, and embodied approach to spiritual care. Doehring understands that people live out their values and beliefs differently, especially when faced with stress, loss, and violence. By adopting this approach, you'll be able to offer confident and professional pastoral care and counseling to members of your congregation or any other place of ministry.

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