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

Author: Jay E. Adams

Summarized by Craig N. Johnson

Chapter 1: The Persons Involved in Counseling

Chapter 2: The Holy Spirit Is the Principal Person

Chapter 3: The Human Counselor

Chapter 4: The Counselee

Chapter 5: Basic Presuppositions and Principles

Chapter 6: Hope

Chapter 7: Prayer: The Base for Christian Counseling

Chapter 8: The Reconciliation/Discipline Dynamic

Chapter 9: Reconciliation

Chapter 10: Presuppositions and Methodology

Chapter 11: Technique

Chapter 12: The Language of Counseling

Chapter 13: The Language of Emotion and Action

Chapter 14: Sin is the Problem

Chapter 15: Love in Counseling

Chapter 16: Support, Sympathy, and Empathy

Chapter 17: The Motivation for Change

Chapter 18: Effecting Biblical Change

Chapter 19: Elements of Dehabituation and Rehabituation

Chapter 20: Getting Started

Chapter 21: Goals and Terminal Dates

Chapter 22: The Commitment of the Counselee

Chapter 23: Is There a Problem?

Chapter 24: Two Basic Approaches

Chapter 25: Ways of Gathering Data

Chapter 26: Asking Questions

Chapter 27: Helping Through Homework

Chapter 28: An Analysis of Homework

Chapter 29: Ways of Using Homework

Chapter 30: Gifts that Differ

Chapter 31: How to Handle Anger

Chapter 32: Dealing with Envy, Brooding, Fretting, and Self-Pity

Chapter 33: Helping Depressed Persons

Chapter 34: Helping the 'Scizophrenic'

Chapter 35: Resolving Sexual Difficulties

Chapter 36: Helping Those Who Fear

Chapter 37: Counseling Those Who Fear that They have Committed the Unparddonable Sin

Chapter 38: Conclusion

This book by Jay Adams is essentially an introduction to Nouthetic (Biblical) Counseling. The book is divided into 3 parts: (1) The Persons, (2) The Presuppositions and Principles, and (3) The Practice and Process.

Published in 1973 by Zondervan

ISBN: 0-31051150-X

461 pages

38 Chapters

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