Counseling Techniques: A Comprehensive Resource for Christian Counselors [Hardcover]

All practitioners are better with some tools than others. This book prepares students and newer counselors with an enlarged toolkit and provides wisdom on how to use the tools you they may not be as familiar with. The range of strategies, interventions, and techniques is impressive, as are the counseling professionals presenting them. -- Marshall Shelley, Director of the Doctor of Ministry program, Denver SeminaryCounseling Techniques, edited by John C. Thomas, is an excellent and very useful compendium of clinical strategies, interventions, and techniques for Christian counselors in helping a wide variety of clients. There are eleven chapters on theory-based strategies, four on population-based strategies, and twelve on clinical issue-based strategies. I highly recommend this very practical resource as must reading for Christian counselors and others involved in people-helping. -- Siang-Yang Tan, Professor of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary; Senior Pastor, First Evangelical ChurchThe field of Christian counseling continues to grow and expand at a rapid pace. Every day we look for insights and tools to help expand our work with lost, confused, broken, wounded, or exploited people. This is a real gift to the profession. Each chapter in Counseling Techniques translates theory into practice through effective and practical discussion of strategies, intervention, and techniques that are grounded in and supported by theory and research. The twenty-eight chapters are also jam-packed with conceptual, clinical, theoretical, and theological resources. Be sure to add this book to your library! -- Tim Clinton, EdD, LPC, LMFT, BCPCC, President, American Association of Christian CounselorsWith ever-changing cultural trends and more updated research in the field, the need for a counseling-techniques book that marries the data with the truth of Scripture cannot be understated. Dr. John Thomas carefully selects the most respected practitioners in the field to provide a colĂ`