The 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.