Caring for God's People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780800631871)

Culbertson has built his text around the ideal of Christian wholeness and maturity-a healthy interconnectedness of self-within-community. The heart of the book lies in its presentation of the three schools of counseling theory that Culbertson finds most helpful: family systems theory, narrative counseling theory, and object relations theory. Each of these is explained in detail, and then applied to the most common and challenging of counseling situations: pre-marital counseling, marriage counseling, divorce counseling, counseling gay men and women, and grief counseling. Culbertson brings new sensitivities to the counseling scene-a more nuanced grasp of gender, a new sense of families, issues of sexual orientation, a strong sense of the relationship of emotions to spirituality, an empathetic attitude, a pragmatic but professional mix of ancillary theories, and a sense of the relevance of the counselor's own self-understanding.

Author: Philip Leroy Culbertson
ISBN-10: 0800631870
ISBN-13: 9780800631871
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.71d