Publisher's Synopsis
Country Counseling is a book written for pastors and ministerial leaders who serve in rural settings and find themselves seeking assistance in successfully counseling their congregation through many of life's daily needs and hurts. This text, filled with a wide variety of practical and easy to use counseling tools and techniques, can assist in leading pastors and leaders through the counseling process, from areas related to relationship problems, addictions, and depression to grief recovery and co-dependency. As the rural pastor or leader uses the easy to understand dialogue and reproducible templates found in Country Counseling, they will find themselves more effective in shepherding the flock toward a happier and healthier relationship with God. What will rural pastors or ministerial leaders find helpful as they read Country Counseling? - The theology of country counseling, - The "how-to's" of successful, Christian counseling, - Basic treatment plans to be used for a wide variety of problematic areas, and, finally, - A pastor's or leader's referral resource system which one will find useful as pastoral counseling becomes a more common practice in his or her area(s) served.
