Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling: An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track

An original, effective, and time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands-fully updated and expanded.Professional counselor and pastor Dr. Charles Allen Kollar found that counseling does not need not be long-term or depend on psychological manipulation to produce dramatic results. In most cases, the solution lies with the counselees themselves.Using the tested methods found in Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, pastors, apart from counselors, will be well equipped to: help their counselees discover a solution and put it in motion speedily and productively Institute healthy change by helping the counselee see and work on the solution with God’s activity already present in his/her life create solutions with-not for-the counseleeSolution-Focused Pastoral Counseling does not require the counselor to be a highly trained psychological expert. It requires biblically based sensitivity and common sense. Yet this approach also recognizes its limitations and understands that there are situations in which other professional and/or medical help is required.This book reveals the possibility of life without the problem through an understanding of what is different when the problem does not occur or is less intrusive.