What to Do When Counseling Fails

by Jay E. Adams

Publisher:

Institute for Nouthetic Studies

, 2020

Overview

Failure in counseling hurts. Hopes are dashed, people become discouraged, and problems may become all the more complicated. It hurts the counselee, the counselor, the church, and everyone who is closely related to the situation. It is important, therefore, to know how to detect errors, to know what to do to recoup from failure, and to learn how to avoid failure in the future.

It is my hope that this volume will reach many at the point where, because of failure, they are ready to quit, and that it will not only instruct them about what to do instead, but will also encourage them to not give up.

• Explores the reality of failed counseling situations
• Addresses counseling failure from all sides
• Examines the failure to honor God, failure to counsel or do as the Bible requires, and failure to achieve the changes that the Bible sets forth

Contents

• Checking Up, Not Checking Out
• A Case in Point
• Counseling by Mail
• Church Discipline: Used and Misused
• Attacking the Counselor
• Taking Sides
• Counseling “Gaiuses”
• Helping Gaiuses to Recoup
• Bringing Success Out of Failure
• The Person and the Issue
• How Would You Counsel?
• Conclusion

Product Details

• Title: What to Do When Counseling Fails
• Author: Jay E. Adams
• Publisher: Institute for Nouthetic Studies
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 56
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Pastoral counseling; Counseling
• ISBNs: 9781889032436, 1889032433
• Resource ID: LLS:WHTDWHCNSLNGFLS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:47:11Z

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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