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ISBN: 0842350594
ISBN13: 9780842350594

Promoting Change through Brief Therapy in Christian Counseling

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ISBN: 0842350594
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Book Overview

As health-care costs soar and insurance companies limit reimbursement, people no longer can afford to be in counseling for months and years. In response, the counseling community has developed brief-therapy approaches that look at solutions rather than problems. This book equips Christian counselors to integrate Scripture with solution-based, brief therapy to help clients begin the change process. Gary J. Oliver, Ph.D., is the clinical director of Southwest Counseling Associates as well as an associate professor and program director of the D.Min. in Marriage and Family Counseling program at Denver Seminary. He has written twelve books, nine of them cowritten with Norm Wright, including "How to Change Your Spouse without Ruining Your Marriage, Good Women Get Angry, " and "When Anger Hits Home." Monte Hasz, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist at Southwest Clinical Associates in Littleton, Colorado, and an adjunct faculty member of Denver Seminary. Dr. Hasz has also worked extensively in church ministry and hospital crisis evaluation. He lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, with his wife, Susan, and their three children. Matthew Richburg, M.A., is a licensed clinical psychologist at Southwest Clinical Associates in Littleton, Colorado, and an adjunct faculty member and clinical supervisor at Denver Seminary. He recently (1998) completed a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Denver. Matt and his wife, Sara, live in Denver, Colorado. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
ISBN:
0842350594
ISBN13:
9780842350594
Release Date:
October 1997
Publisher:
Tyndale House Publishers
Length:
287 Pages
Weight:
1.28 lbs.
Dimensions:
9.5″ × 1.0″ × 6.5″
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This book made me a better counselor

Too many books on counseling talk about theory and more theory. While counselors need a good theoretical base, we desperately need practical ideas for helping the people who come in to see us. This book provided that kind of help for me. A central theme of this book is about undestanding how people change. If we know this, we can help them change. The book encourages you to look for even small changes, because change is generative. The book even gives an outline of what the first few sessions of solution-focused therapy should look like. As the authors state, the avearge client only comes six to eight sessions anyway, so therapists need to focus on making the most of those sessions. This book helps give you a plan for making that happen.

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Outstanding book on Brief Therapy for Christian Counselors

I am a Christian psychiatrist who found this book to be very well written. The authors offer practical insights and avoid the use of technical jargon. The theoretical orientation is solution-focused which can be used alone or in combination with other treatment modalities. I really liked this book and highly recommend it for therapists new and experienced alike. It is a must have for every psychotherapist's library!

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