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Seasoned counselors and professors Ron Hawkins and Tim Clinton offer a comprehensive guide that empowers Christian counselors by clarifying their task: to help people take possession of their souls...through the power of the Spirit; under the authority of the Word; in a supportive community of accountability; and that they may be like Christ. The authors address head-on today's enticing new imitations of true peace and tantalizing opportunities for people in pain to anesthetize themselves. But they also highlight the foundation of hope: God loves, he empowers, and he refuses to abandon his passion for connection with his children. Case studies illustrate how to help people take possession of the thinking self, the feeling self, the decision-making self, the physical self, and the relational self. This comprehensive plan for effective intervention is perfect for lay counselors, students, and professionals looking for ways to integrate their faith and practice.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 octobre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736943550
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Unless oterwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from te Holy Bible, New International Version , ® NIV . Copyrigt © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rigts reserved worldwide. ® ® Verses marked  are taken from te New King James Version . Copyrigt © 1982 by homas Nelson, Inc. ® Used by permission. All rigts reserved. Verses marked  are taken from te New American Standard Bible , © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, ® 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by he Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org) Verses marked  are taken from teHoly Bible, New Living Translation, copyrigt © 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission ofTyndale House Publisers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rigts reserved. Cover by Koecel Peterson & Associates Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota

We wrote tis book wit a deep sense of gratitude for all wo ave taugt and mentored us along our journey. We dedicate tis book to tem and to all te people around te globe wo ave answered God’s call to care for te millions of people in our world wit wounded souls.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hawkins, Ronald E. he new Cristian counselor / Ron Hawkins and Tim Clinton. pages cm ISBN 978-0-7369-4354-3 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-7369-4355-0 (eBook) 1. Pastoral counseling. 2. Counseling—Religious aspects—Cristianity. I. Title. BV4012.2.H39 2015 253.5—dc23 2014049880 All rigts reserved.No part of this electronic publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The authorized purchaser has been granted a nontransferable, nonexclusive, and noncommercial right to access and view this electronic publication, and purchaser agrees to do so only in accordance with the terms of use under which it was purchased or transmitted. Participation in or encouragement of piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of author’s and publisher’s rights is strictly prohibited.

Contents

.Introduction to a New Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.Wat Is Cristian Counseling?. . . . . . . . . . . . .31

.Antropology and Identity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

.Attacment and Relationsips . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

.Addiction and Idolatry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

.Autority and Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

.Atmospere and Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

.Analysis and Assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231

.Action and Adaptation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

.Community and Accountability. . . . . . . . . . . 289

.Spiritual Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317

.New Horizons—te Way Forward. . . . . . . . . .345

Introduction to a New Day

By your patience possess your souls.

L. 21:19 

t’s a new day in te world of Cristian counseling, psycoterapy, andI mental ealt care. Like never before, Cristian counseling is grow-ing into a diverse, empirically grounded, and biblically based minis-try-profession of worldwide prominence. It’s encouraging to see te exponential growt of te modern Cristian counseling movement as never before. Today, Cristian counselors are equipped to respond to te diverse and complex needs of urting people all over te world.How-ever, we need to keep learning. We are callenged by advances in bibli-cal, medical, and psycological researc. Militant secularism and global opposition to Cristian trut are on te rise. Like te propet Habakkuk, we seek to “write te vision and make it plain on tablets, tat e may run wo reads it” (Hab. 2:2 ).he New Cristian Counseloroﬀers a vision for te future of Cristian counseling tat provides deﬁnition, focus, and direction to Cristian counseling

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practice in te 21st century.Autor and scolar Leonard Sweet (1999)callenged all believers: “he future is not someting we enter. he future is someting we create.” As Cristian counselors, we need to maintain pace wit advances in researc, practice, and treatment. If we properly respond to te cal-lenges of militant secularism, wic seeks to remove us from our rigt-ful place in te public square, we will faitfully serve our spiritual calling and avoid becoming obsolete. his book is designed to assist in actively saping our future so we respond to te Spirit in love and loyalty, onor God, and imitate Crist’s kindness, umility, and strengt in all we do. he calling of te new Cristian counselor, our ig privilege and our compelling responsibility, is to bedistinctively Cristian and torougly professional. To eﬀectively represent Crist and conduct counseling on te igest level, we are responsible to embrace and stay wit te tenor of te times by keeping up wit advances in researc and in te treat-ment ﬁelds of counseling, psycoterapy, and pastoral care. Our founda-tion is te trut of God’s Word, but we also gain critical insigts from a variety of gifted counselors’ and autors’ teories and practices. We view all te resources available to us as God-given, and we rely on te Word of God and te Spirit of God to produce genuine, lasting cange in us and in our clients. We are partners wit God in te grand and exciting adventure of see-ing lives transformed. People usually come to us at teir point of des-peration. hey are vulnerable and broken, but tey ave walked into our oﬃces and our lives seeking a glimmer of ope. he potential for life-canging transformation is at its peak wen people are in pain. Our desire and our callenge is to provide warmt, encouragement, and insigts tat elp tem to make teir way toward God, ﬁnding im to be trustworty, loving, kind, and able.

I   N D

he time as come for us to speak wit appropriate boldness, intel-lectual conﬁdence, and spiritual astuteness in te work and ministry of counseling. Being a Cristian counselor is more tan aving a title on a business card, and it’s far more tan a job. We are (or we can become) skilled, open, willing cannels for God’s grace to ﬂow into oter people’s lives. he purpose of tis book is to embolden and equip tose wo ave a spiritual awareness but lack te knowledge and conﬁdence to declare teir position on te role of fait in emotional and psycological ealing. To understand our role more fully, we need to begin wit a clear grasp of te universal longing—te cry of every person’s soul.

he Cry of te Soul Listening accurately to te client is a central counseling skill, a skill tat enables te counselor to ear in stereo, attending to te client’s words as well as te surrounding relational environment. he skilled, attentive Cristian counselor ears te cry of te soul—te past urts, present struggles, and future opes. Wen we listen, wat do we ear? Depression, stress and anxiety, loss, abuse, relationsip problems, divorce, loneliness, violence, and more. he world is full of brokenness tat can be traced back to te opening pages of Genesis. he world started oﬀ well—really well. In Gen. 1:31 we read, “God saw all tat e ad made, and it was very good.” Before long, owever, a cataclysm sook te created order. he existential eartquake appened wen sin entered te picture. God ad given Adam and Eve everyting tey could dream of want-ing. He gave tem only one restriction: Don’t eat from a particular tree. Satan came along and wispered deception and doubt into Eve’s eart— “Did God really say tat?” He promised tey could “be like God, know-ing good and evil.” Adam went along wit Eve’s coice to sin against

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God. he problem wasn’t tat tey ate a piece of forbidden fruit. he real issue—te sin of rebellion—was tat tey wanted independence from God. hey cose someting oter tan God to be in te center of teir lives, and te results were disastrous. Since tat day, people ave lived wit sin-darkened earts, desperately in need of a Savior. he fall of man aﬀected us on every level. It distorted our tinking, warped our desires, wrecked our relationsips, and infused our world wit sin and deat. Worst of all, it caused a separation between God and uman beings. Wat a recipe for disaster and profound sorrow! Two verses in te book of Job describe tis pligt of man: “Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks ﬂy upward” (5:7) and “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble” (14:1). Every day in our world, news accounts conﬁrm tese ancient observations. Sin as disconnected us from God and made us strangers in te land e gave us. Instead of feeling deeply fulﬁlled and wonderfully connected, we now realize we don’t belong. God created us for someting else, some-ting more, but sin as corrupted our world. Wen Doroty landed in Oz, se told er faitful little dog, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any-more.” Look around. We are all omesick for Eden. Ask te man caugt in sex addiction, te single moter wo’s trying to get by, te couple wo live in an armed truce, and te teenager wo wonders if life is wort living any-more. he pace, pain, and pressures of modern life are robbing us of our joy. However, all is not lost. Our Redeemer lives, and e oﬀers us for-giveness, purpose, and ultimate ope. he apostle Paul reﬂected on te world’s brokenness and te ope of eventual restoration:

he wole creation as been groaning as in te pains of cild-birt rigt up to te present time. Not only so, but we our-selves, wo ave te ﬁrstfruits of te Spirit, groan inwardly as