Therapeutic Expedition: Equipping the Christian Counselor for the Journey
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Overview
For undergraduates and those pursuing a master’s degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or pastoral counseling, Therapeutic Expedition is the only comprehensive basic helping skills textbook built upon a biblical world-view. Authors John C. Thomas and Lisa Sosin pull from their combined fifty years of clinical and classroom experience to prepare future counselors for their professional journey, fostering specific skills application in the areas of:
- Creating a helping relationship
- Assigning homework
- Exploring the counselee’s concerns
- Spiritual strategies
- Facilitating the sessions
- Using metaphors
- Assessing the counselee
The book’s unique combination of qualities-a practical approach highlighting professional and personal growth based on authoritative, interdisciplinary, and biblical worldview outlooks-makes this an outstanding text within its field. Workbook excercises to foster skills application are included with each chapter.
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- Seeks to help counseling students become effective counselors in an ever-changing world
- Gives special focus on the psychological, interpersonal, and theological sides of the counseling enterprise
- Places great emphasis on the practical application of skills and techniques
Top Highlights
“In contrast biblically grounded counselors realize that their own life needs to be Spirit-filled and that their counseling theory, model, and theology must be informed by biblical truth.” (Page 9)
“A counselee might say that he was coerced into counseling, but he chose to come to avoid more adverse consequences. Your responsibility as counselor is not to get the counselee to do what is right; the counselee must decide what he will do. Effective counselors know how to interact with counselees so they can tip the balance in favor of what seems to be the wisest or most prudent decision. Do not attempt to make decisions for any counselee; this violates this aspect of mankind’s creation.” (Pages 28–29)
“ People are wounded in relationships, and they need to be healed in relationships with their fellowman and with God.” (Page 25)
“Your worldview is like the foundation of a house. It is the platform on which you build your life. And it is the foundation on which you construct your helping efforts. Every counseling theory, model, conceptualization skill, and therapeutic intervention is intricately related to your worldview; that is, your worldview is the foundation on which everything that occurs in counseling is built.” (Page 8)
“Ultimately the goal would be to see Russ restored and reconciled to God through Christ Jesus. The counselor would hold that Russ needs to find his identity in Jesus Christ. Whereas many sexual addiction treatment approaches advocate the incorporation of spirituality, a biblical worldview would clearly define it. Spirituality would not be subjectively determined and measured according to what ‘feels right’ or to a ‘higher power of one’s own choosing.’ Specifically spirituality would be defined according to biblical truth and the Higher Power regarded as God. Thus a biblical worldview provides focus and clarity to what constitutes true spirituality and the ‘higher power.’ Spirituality is by biblical truth, not determined by a counselee’s notion.” (Page 9)
- Title: Therapeutic Expedition: Equipping the Christian Counselor for the Journey
- Authors: Lisa Sosin, John C. Thomas
- Publisher: B&H Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Counseling psychology; Counseling; Pastoral counseling
- ISBNs: 9781433675782, 9781433672361, 1433672367, 1433675781
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433675782
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-10T08:03:46Z