At head of title: American Association of Christian Counselors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 725-793) and index.

Introduction to Christian counseling. Christian counseling and compassionate soul care : the case for twenty-first-century practice / Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager -- Competent Christian counseling : definitions and dynamics / Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager -- The new Christian counselors : who we are and what we do to help others / George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton -- The root foundations of Christian counseling. Theological roots : synthesizing and systematizing a Biblical theology of helping / Ron Hawkins, Edward Hindson, and Tim Clinton -- Roots of spirituality : spiritual formation in Scripture, the church, and counseling / Edward Hindson, George Ohlschlager, and Tim Clinton -- Biological roots : psychiatric medicine, the brain, and drug treatments / Michael Lyles -- Psychosocial roots : from theoretical schools to a clinical superscience / Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager -- The Christian counseling relationship. The essential helping relationship : secrets to counselor character and competence-anthropology / Gary Moon and Freda Crews -- The empathic Christian counselor : skilled helpers influencing client action-atmosphere / Jan Hook and George Ohlschlager -- The empowered helping relationship : fostering client change through clinical-spiritual interventions-advocacy / Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager -- Foundations & practice of compassionate soul care.

The ethical helping relationship : ethical conformation and spiritual transformation-accountability / George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton -- The process and practice of Christian counseling. Intake and assessment : global evaluation of bio-psycho-social-spiritual life-attending, assessment, and alignment / Tim Clinton and George Ohlschlager -- Clinical diagnosis and treatment planning : uses and limits of the DSM system-analysis and agenda setting / Miriam Parent and Tim Clinton -- Change by solution-based brief therapy : basic principles and beginning treatment-application / Gary Oliver and John Carmack -- Change in process : working from a Biblical model of TRUTH in action-action / Leslie Vernick and Chris Thurman -- Change as paradox : overcoming client resistance and fear of change-adversity / George Ohlschlager and Tim Clinton -- The major modalities of Christian counseling. Pastoral care and counseling : soul care centered in the church / Ron Hawkins, Edward Hinson, and Tim Clinton -- Lay helping : the whole church in soul-care ministry / Siang-Yang Tan -- Group work : counseling and church-based discipling in small groups / Joseph Kloba -- Christian marraige and marital counseling : promoting hope in lifelong commitments / Everett Worthington Jr. and Jennifer Ripley -- The second-half marriage : helping couples transition into the empty-nest years / Claudia Arp and David Arp.

Sexuality and sexual therapy : learning and practicing the DEC-R model / Douglas Rosenau, Michael Sytsma, and Debra Taylor -- Families and family therapy : understanding and growing a Christian social system / David Stoop -- Child therapy I : the mandate to work with the next generation / Grant Martin and Daniel Sweeney -- Counseling adolescents : serving the struggle for identity and place in the world / Les Parrott and Leslie Parrott -- Child psychopharmacology : what counselors need to know about treating children and adolescents / Daniel Sweeney and Ross Tatum -- Crisis intervention and emergency practice : issues and interventions / H. Norman Wright -- The world at our doorstep : multicultural counseling and special populations / Kathie Erwin, Wei-Jen Huang, and Dian Lin -- Strengthening the future of Christian counseling. Research in Christian counseling : proving and promoting our valued cause / Ian Jones -- Supervision and training : raising up the next generation of Christian counselors / Virginia Holeman -- Christian counseling practice management : how to succeed in business by really trying / Dwight Bain -- The maturation of Christian counseling : envisioning a preferred future / Tim Clinton and George Ohlschalger -- Profile of a shepherd-counselor : lessons learned from the good shepherd / Diane Langberg.

Publisher's description: The authoritative new reference guide that equips counselors, pastors and church leaders, and caregivers for an effective ministry of soul care. Under the guidance of the highly respected American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), more than 40 leading Christian professionals have come together to provide this comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date reference guide for professional and lay counselors, pastors, and leaders in training. Competent Christian Counseling offers you: the best contributions on spiritual formation and pastoral care from Scripture as well as from giants of church history; the latest research, theory, and successful practice methods in Christian counseling; a practical, 21st century model of Christian counseling that is not only "counselor friendly," but also facilitates effective, biblical client change--all geared to help people mature in the ways and wisdom of Jesus Christ. Competent Christian Counseling, edited by Timothy Clinton and George Ohlschlager, is destined to be regarded for years to come as the authoritative, trustworthy resource for Christian counseling.