The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling

The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to Dr. Jay Adams' influential Competent to Counsel which first laid out a vision of nouthetic" counseling—a strictly biblical approach to behavioral counseling and therapy. This practical guide takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues topics and techniques in counseling including: - Who is qualified to be a counselor? - How can counselees change? - How does the Holy Spirit work? - What role does hope play in therapy? - What is the function of language in a counseling session? - How do we ask the right questions? - What often lies behind depression? - How do we deal with anger? - What is schizophrenia? These and hundreds more questions are answered and explained from a biblical perspective in this comprehensive resource for the Christian counselor. A full set of indexes a detailed table of contents and a full complement of diagrams and forms make this an outstanding reference book for and Christian counselor. "