Critical Stages of Biblical Counseling: Getting Started, Breaking Through, Finishing Well

by Jay E. Adams

Publisher:

Institute for Nouthetic Studies

, 2020

Overview

This book is a trilogy in which Dr. Adams leads both the novice and experienced counselor through the three key counseling sessions (or stages) which are common to the entire counseling process.

Getting Started: The First Session

What you do in the first session will set the tone for what follows--for good or for ill. If done well, it will help the counselee to gain confidence in your minister to him and, more importantly, in the Word of God and the God of the Word.

Breaking Through: The Turning Point

The turning point in counseling sessions is that point at which the counselor sees the beginning of appreciable, observable change—a change of knowledge, of understanding, of determination, of conviction, or of commitment. A turning point is crucial because true Christian change—of the sort that pleases God—always involves a closer approximation of the thoughts and life of the counselee to the “ways” of God presented in the Scriptures.

Finishing Well: Termination

This final section concerns those basic issues that have to do with closing out a series of counseling sessions—how to know when, how to do it, and how to follow up.

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Key Features

• Presents three key counseling sessions which are common to the entire counseling process
• Provides a substantial guide for novice and experienced counselors
• Outlines the ways in which counseling sessions ought to be conducted

Contents

• Introduction to the Trilogy
• Stage 1 Getting Started: The First Session of Biblical Counseling
• Stage 2 Breaking Through: The Turning Point of Biblical Counseling
• Stage 3 Finishing Well: The Termination of Biblical Counseling

Top Highlights

“The third element that ought to pervade the atmosphere is a sense of hopefulness.” (Page 28)

“To begin with, there are times when counseling takes no more than one session to complete.” (Page 16)

“the first session, the turning point session, and the terminating session” (Page 11)

“You want him to recognize that you will not waste time or allow him to do so” (Page 59)

“First, not only must the counselor consciously work at creating this atmosphere, but he must himself also desire it in all that he does. He must have genuinely Christian concerns.” (Page 27)

Product Details

• Title: Critical Stages of Biblical Counseling
• Author: Jay E. Adams
• Edition: 2nd revised edition
• Publisher: Institute for Nouthetic Studies
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 261
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Counseling › Religious aspects--Christianity; Pastoral counseling
• ISBNs: 9781949737073, 9781949737080, 9780889032301, 1949737071, 194973708X
• Resource ID: LLS:CRTCLSTGSCNSLNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:01:33Z

About Jay E. Adams

Jay E. Adams A.B., B.D., S.T.M., Ph.D. (1929-2020) served as a pastor, church planter, denominational executive, seminary professor, author, and lecturer. He taught homiletics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and was the Director of Advanced Studies at Westminster Seminary in California. He was the founder of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF), the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (formerly NANC), and the Institute for Nouthetic Studies (INS). He was the author of over 100 books including the best seller Competent to Counsel which launched the modern biblical counseling movement. He was the recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian honor awarded by the State of South Carolina.

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