Effective Biblical Counseling

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Counseling model that can be integrated into the functioning of the localchurch. In his first book on counseling, BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL COUNSELING,Crabb demonstrated that Gods plan for his church was that it should be aplace of acceptance and healing. Here he offers us practical advice and encouragement to get on with the job of one-anothering. He discusses personal needs, personality structure, motivation for behaviour and change, and stubborn problems. START HERE FOR JUN93 This practical guide for Christianswho want to learn to counsel capably is divided into four sections. PartOne examines the goals of counseling and includes a chapter entitled Christianity and Psychology: Enemies or Allies? Part Two lays the foundationfor effective counselling by promoting better understanding of peoples needs, motivations and personality structures. Part Three establishes a basic strategy for understanding and dealing with personal problems, and PartFour examines counseling in the broader church community.

This book from award winning author Dr. Larry Crabb seeks to think through a model of counseling which can be integrated into the functioning of the local church. It contains a chart appendix.

'Many of the people we deal with in counseling are hiding behind all sorts of defensive overlays designed to protect a fragile sense of self-acceptance or to prevent further rejection or failure from reaching an already crippled self-identity. Counseling involves a stripping away of the layers, sometimes gently sometimes forcefully, to reach the real person underneath.'
'My thesis is that problems develop when the basic needs for significance and security are threatened. People pursue irresponsible ways of living as a means of defending against feelings of insignificance and insecurity. In most cases these folks have arrived at a wrong idea as to what constitutes significance and security.'
'Counseling is relationship. Relationship interactions vary depending on the temperaments, problems, personalities of the people involved. With some you adopt a professional air, with others a relaxed, friendly mood. With some you directly teach, with others you ramblingly explore. With some you assign specific behavioral homework assignments, with others you subtly encourage broad affective or attitudinal changes.'