Summer 2012/Houston

CN520

                                                                                                                                                                                     Spidell

CN520:  PASTORAL COUNSELING. Steven Spidell.                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

DESCRIPTION:  Pastoral counseling is a specialized ministry within the field of pastoral care.  This introduction will explore foundational issues such as human (psychosocial and spiritual) development, assessment and counseling responses, including attention to special topics and situations, viz., crisis, grief, individual and family issues, medical treatment choices.

 

SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY:  To pastor effectively is to be available to people in crisis, in growth passages, and in change throughout the life cycle. The pastoral counselor is capable of both offering effectual therapeutic intervention and support as well as facilitating the pastoral care of the people of God surrounding the counselee.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students completing this course will have demonstrated (1) a better understanding of and an ability to interpret individual experience, family relationship patterns, and society; (2) basic skills in counseling individuals, and families (3) the ability to empathize with people to whom they minister; (4) more motivation to engage in ministries of giving care, prevention education, and healing of persons; & (5) more commitment to self-development and self-care.

 

COURSE FORMAT:  The format will include lecture, online demonstrations, discussion, and triads utilizing counseling skill training processes, and practice in simulated counseling circumstances will integrate theory, theology, and practice. The course will meet twice weekly for five weeks in 3 ½ hr. hour sessions. Classes meet 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m., Monday/Wednesday, June 25 – July 25.  No class on July 4. NB: Plan your schedule carefully. This is an intensive course. Absences cannot be excused.

 

 

REQUIRED READING: 1200 pp. minimum.  NB Given the concentrated nature of this course, please read the required texts before class begins.

 

Capps, Donald. Giving Counsel. A MinisterŐs Guidebook. Chalice Press, 2001. 248pp. ISBN-13: 978-0827212473, $27.31.

Friedman, Edwin H. Generation to Generation. Family Process in Church and Synagogue. Guildford Press, 1985. ISBN-13: 978-1609182366, $22.02.

Malony, H. Newton and David Augsburger. Christian Counseling. Abingdon, 2007. 157 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0687332830, $20.00

Patton, John. Pastoral Counseling: A Ministry of the Church. Abingdon, 1983, Wipf and Stock, 2002, ISBN-13:978-1592440306, $25.00.

Purnell, Douglas. Conversation as Ministry. Pilgrim Press, 2003. 154 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0829815788 , $16,22.

Ramsay, Nancy J. Pastoral Diagnosis. A Resource for Ministries of Care and Counseling. Fortress Press, 1998. 170 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0800626297, $22.00.

Stone, Howard W. Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling. Fortress Press, 2001. 207 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0800632991, $18.24.  

Switzer, David K. Pastoral Care Emergencies.  Fortress Press, 2000.  189 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0800632281, $18.71.

Weaver, Andrew J. et al. ŇMental Health Issues Among Clergy and Other Religious Professionals: A Review of the Research.Ó The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Winter 2002, Vol. 56, No. 4, 393-403.

 

RECOMMENDED READING:

Augsburger, David. Helping People Forgive. Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. ISBN-13: 978-0664256869, $23,94

Carkhuff, Robert R. The Art of Helping. 9th edition. Possibilities Publishing, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1599961798, $35.75

Ciarrocchi, Joseph W. A MinisterŐs Handbook of Mental Disorders. Paulist Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0809134038 , $14.21.

Cole, Allan Hugh, Jr., Be Not Anxious. Pastoral Care of Disquieted Souls. Eerdmans, 2008. 218 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0802863102, $20.00

Collins, Gary R. Christian Counseling 3rd Edition: Revised and Expanded. (Paperback), Nelson, 2007.  ISBN-13: 978-1418503291, $20.70.

Cooper-White, P. Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling. Augsburg, 2003. ISBN-13: 978-0800634544, $18.10

Culbertson, Philip. Caring for GodŐs People: Counseling and Christian Wholeness. (Integrating Spirituality Into Pastoral Counseling.) Augsburg Fortress, 1999. ISBN-13: 978-0800631871, $29.00.

Doehring, Carrie. The Practice of Pastoral Care. A Postmodern Approach. Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0664226848 , $15.58.

Gerkin, Charles. The Living Human Document. Abingdon, 1984. ISBN-13: 978-0687016747, $22.39.

Hunsinger, Deborah van Duesen. Theology and Pastoral Counseling. Eerdmans, 1995. ISBN-13: 978-0802808424, $25.00

Kornfield, Margaret. Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities. Continuum, 1998. ISBN-13: 978-0826412324, $26.95.

Meier, Scott T., and Susan R. Davis. The Elements of Counseling. 6th ed. Brooks Cole, 2007. ISBN-13:                 978-0495813330, $40.51

Miller, William, and K. Jackson. Practical Psychology for Pastors. 2nd ed. Prentice-Hall, 1994,ISBN-13- 978-0131718296, $43.72

Oglesby, William. Biblical Themes for Pastoral Care. Abingdon, 1980. ASIN:B0027535S (out of print, check availability))

Pargament, Kenneth I. Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy. Guilford Press, 2007.  ISBN-13: 978-1609189938, $25.53

Ramsay, Nancy. Pastoral Care and Counseling: Redefining The Paradigms. Abingdon, 2005, ISBN-13:978-0687022243, $26.50

Sarasino, Michelle, Being at Borders, Liturgical Press, 2011. ISBN-13:978-0814657102,  $21.86

Walsh, Froma. Strengthening Family Resilience. Guildford Press, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-1462503315, $28.66

Wicks, R., R. Parsons, & D. Capps, eds. Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling Expanded Edition. Integration, 1992. ISBN-13: 978-0809133512, $30.36

 

 

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1.     Attend lectures, participate is discussion, and actively engage in pastoral counseling exercises.

2.     Attend one session of an open 12-step group (AA, NA, etc.) and write a report with theological and psychological analysis of your observations and experience (5 pages). 

3.     Write a 20-25 page paper on a specific area of pastoral care and counseling such as depression, alcoholism, divorce, etc.  The paper should include psychological/system/development analysis of issue, therapeutic possibilities/limitations/resources; spiritual/Biblical perspectives; footnotes; bibliography. Final Paper due September 14, 2012.

4.     12-Step paper (20%); Participation in discussion and exercises (30%); Final paper (50%)

 

PREREQUISITES:  None.

 

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets MDiv core requirement in Pastoral Counseling (MIN 5).