The Complete Guide To Crisis & Trauma Counseling: What to Do and Say When It Matters Most!
Overview
Many pastors and lay counselors have had little training in clinical methods of grief and trauma counseling. H. Norman Wright gives a biblical, practical guide to pastoral counseling. Wright has more than 40 years of clinical and classroom experience. He shares real-life dialogues from his decades in private practice, demonstrating healthy, healing counseling sessions. Readers will learn how to counsel and coach both believers and non-believers who are in crisis, how to walk alongside them through the hours, weeks, and months following their trauma, and how to help them find the path to restoration.
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Key Features
- Prepares readers to counsel others
- Presents insights gleaned from more than 40 years of practice and academic research
- Helps readers address family problems, process tragic events, and cope with suffering
Top Highlights
“When a problem is overwhelming, or when our support system—within ourselves or from others—doesn’t work, we are thrown off balance. This is called a crisis.” (Pages 9–10)
“At the heart of many people’s problems is a low self-concept or a feeling of lack of worth. Helping a person discover his or her personal worth because of who God is and what He has done for him or her helps to stabilize the person.” (Page 19)
“In crisis counseling, the person, couple or family must see that they need to make a choice to remain the same or to change and grow; and they must make that choice before much progress will be seen. A goal of crisis counseling, as you will see, is to help the person in need accept and take responsibility.” (Page 21)
“In relationships, the person with the widest range of responses will have the greatest amount of influence and control. Too many who counsel not only disregard this important fact but expect their counselees to adapt to their styles of thinking and talking; the result is that they eventually end up missing each other completely.” (Page 50)
“For empathy and rapport to occur, there is one principle above all the others that must be implemented: speak your counselee’s language.” (Page 49)
Product Details
- Title: The Complete Guide To Crisis & Trauma Counseling: What to Do and Say When It Matters Most!
- Author: H. Norman Wright
- Publisher: Regal
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 512
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Ministry Resources
About H. Norman Wright
H. Norman Wright is research professor of Christian education at Talbot Theological Seminary. Previously he served as an associate professor and the director of the department of marriage, family, and child counseling at Biola University. He has been a licensed marriage, family, and trauma counselor for more than 30 years, and he is the author of Recovering From the Losses of Life, Experiencing Grief, and Before You Say I Do.