Caring for God's People

By Philip L. Culbertson

Book Overview

Culbertson has built his text around the ideal of Christian wholeness and maturity-a healthy interconnectedness of self-within-community. The heart of the book lies in its presentation of the three schools of counseling theory that Culbertson finds most helpful: family systems theory, narrative counseling theory, and object relations theory. Each of these is explained in detail, and then applied to the most common and challenging of counseling situations: pre-marital counseling, marriage counseling, divorce counseling, counseling gay men and women, and grief counseling. Culbertson brings new sensitivities to the counseling scene-a more nuanced grasp of gender, a new sense of families, issues of sexual orientation, a strong sense of the relationship of emotions to spirituality, an empathetic attitude, a pragmatic but professional mix of ancillary theories, and a sense of the relevance of the counselor's own self-understanding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800631870
• ISBN13: 9780800631871
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.7"