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The tree of healing : psychological & biblical foundations for counseling and pastoral care /
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TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Ministry Resources Library, 1988, ©1985.Description: 464 pages. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0310251419 (pbk.)
- 9780310251408
- 0310251400
- 9780310251415 (pbk.)
- 253.5 19
- BV4012.2 .H844 1988
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Summary: The Tree of Healing refers to the "tree" of pastoral care, a tree that has grown up among the many trees of psychotherapy and Christian counseling. Roger Hurding provides a clear and easy-to-follow map to this forest. As a result, the reader can begin to understand the many approaches to psychology and Christian counseling that one finds today. The goal of this assessment and understanding is to develop a truly accurate and biblical basis for the pastoral care of God's image-bearing creatures. - Jacket flap.
Part 1 : The rise of the secular psychologies. Introduction : the tree of pastoral care -- What is counseling? -- Behaviourism : man as machine -- Psychoanalysis : man and his instincts -- Psychoanalysis : man and society -- Personalism : man and self : humanistic psychology -- Personalism : man and self : existential psychology -- Transpersonalism : man beyond self -- The new therapies -- Part 2 : Christian reaction and response. Sinkers, swimmers and strugglers -- Route-finding in the forest -- Reaching to the word : biblical counselling -- Reaching out : relationship counselling -- Reaching in : the inner journey -- Reaching back : healing the past -- The Wonderful Counsellor.
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| 253.5 H962B The Bible and counselling / | 253.5 H962P Pathways to wholeness: | 253.5 H962R Roots and shoots: | 253.5 H962T The tree of healing : psychological & biblical foundations for counseling and pastoral care / | 253.5 J17F Faith or fear? : a reader in pastoral care and counselling / | 253.5 J17S Still small voice practical introduction to counselling for pastor & other helpers | 253.5 J67P (Box-005 Nov'23) Person and counsellor |
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. [407]-445.
Part 1 : The rise of the secular psychologies. Introduction : the tree of pastoral care -- What is counseling? -- Behaviourism : man as machine -- Psychoanalysis : man and his instincts -- Psychoanalysis : man and society -- Personalism : man and self : humanistic psychology -- Personalism : man and self : existential psychology -- Transpersonalism : man beyond self -- The new therapies -- Part 2 : Christian reaction and response. Sinkers, swimmers and strugglers -- Route-finding in the forest -- Reaching to the word : biblical counselling -- Reaching out : relationship counselling -- Reaching in : the inner journey -- Reaching back : healing the past -- The Wonderful Counsellor.
The Tree of Healing refers to the "tree" of pastoral care, a tree that has grown up among the many trees of psychotherapy and Christian counseling. Roger Hurding provides a clear and easy-to-follow map to this forest. As a result, the reader can begin to understand the many approaches to psychology and Christian counseling that one finds today. The goal of this assessment and understanding is to develop a truly accurate and biblical basis for the pastoral care of God's image-bearing creatures. - Jacket flap.
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