Update on Christian Counseling, vols. 1 & 2

by Jay E. Adams

Publishers:

Ministry Resources Library; Zondervan

, 1981

Overview

Christian counselors constantly need new information, an awareness of emerging issues, an evaluation of techniques and procedures, not to mention all the practical and organizational help that can make the task of counseling more effeciant and more effective.

Key Features

• Provides informative, practical, and focused information for counselors
• Features ideas and techniques that will enhance counseling ministry
• Focuses on developments in the Christian counseling field

Contents

Update on Christian Counseling, Volume 1

• How Does Counselihg Affect the Counselor?
• Failure in Counseling
• Stress - A Christian Approach
• Drugs and Counseling
• The Practicality of e Sermon on the Mount
• Don’t Apologize!
• Presuppositions and: Counseling
• Getting Organized
• Using the P.D.I.
• Flexibility in Counseling
• Adaptability in Courlseling
• Reminding
• A Basic Christian Vocabulary

Update on Cttristian Counseling, Volume 2

• Do Fathers Make Atheists of Their Children?
• Liberty With a Limit
• Counseling the Disa/JJed
• Is Transactional Analysis OK?
• How to Win an Unsa ved Wife to Christ
• The Use of I Corinthians 13 in Counseling
• Checks and Promptings
• Does the Behaviorist Have a Mind?
• Eclecticism in Counseling
• “”CPs,” “ACPs” and1 “SCPs” in Counseling

Matters of Concern to Christian Counselors

• I Don’t Dare
• Artificial Insemination ?
• More on Methodology
• Don’t Try to Forgive Yourself
• Don’t Forget the Future
• Who Are You Counseling?
• Sleep Patterns
• A Note on Sleep Loss
• Other Factors to Consider When Gathering Data
• Halo Data-You May Be Deceived
• Sorting Things Out
• Timing
• Motivation
• . .. in Hebrews
• Dull in Hearing
• Manipulation in Counseling
• Reconciliation and Relationship
• Public or Private?
• Discouraged Counselees
• How Long?
• Who Needs It?
• Use or Love
• Is Grace “Cheap”?
• Counseling for Discipline
• On the Teaching of Counseling
• A Note on Helping Homosexuals
• Judging Motives: Being Simplistic
• A Test Case
• One Another
• Priorities
• The Human/Divine in Counseling
• Three Enemies
• Church Discipline
• Divorced Office Bearer
• Bad Language in Counseling
• Things to Do
• . . Don’t Counsel
• Prediction
• When Asserting, Assert
• Common Grace and Counseling
• Don’t Try to Love Yourself
• Do You Have an Open Mind?

Top Highlights

“Pressures from without (or even at times from within) may not be avoidable; stress (since it is part of an inner, learned response) always is.” (Volume 1, Page 17)

“Stress, then, refers to any harmful, self-induced strain upon the body or upon various parts of or organs in it.” (Volume 1, Page 17)

“The word describes a condition in the lover that is opposed to all that is cruel or severe” (Volume 2, Page 39)

“what the problem is and what God says must be done about it” (Volume 1, Page 6)

“Stress, like tension, is in persons; not in circumstances.” (Volume 1, Page 18)

Product Details

• Title: Update on Christian Counseling, Volumes 1 & 2
• Author: Jay E. Adams
• Series: Jay Adams Library
• Volume: 1 & 2
• Publishers: Ministry Resources Library, Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 1981
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 284
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Pastoral counseling
• ISBNs: 0310510511, 9780310510512
• Resource ID: LLS:UPDTCHRSTNCNSLNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:36:56Z

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.