Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling

The Christian Counselor’s Manual is a companion and sequel to the author’s influential Competent to Counsel. It takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling:

• Who is qualified to be a counselor?
• How can counselees change?
• How does the Holy Spirit work?
• What role does hope play?
• What is the function of language?
• How do we ask the right questions?
• What often lies behind depression?
• How do we deal with anger?
• What is schizophrenia?

These and hundreds more questions are answered in this comprehensive resource for the Christian counselor. A full set of indexes, a detailed table of contents, and a full complement of diagrams and forms make this an outstanding reference book for Christian counselors.

See also Competent to Counsel: Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling.

Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling
• Author: Jay E. Adams
• Publisher: Zondervan (released 09/07/2010)