Customer Reviews

Christian Counseling - a good book - By: , 06 Nov 2003
This book gives excellent practical advice enabling councillors to help people with all kinds of problems. Each issue has a chapter devoted to it & normally there is a section on how, by pre-emptive action, the problem mayin some cases be avoided. While I found all of the problems areas discussed enlightening, the chapters covering the personal issues of anxiety, loneliness, depression, anger & guilt are particularly likely to be of usein any counselling situation. The chapters on homosexuality, choosing a marriage partner & vocational counselling issues were also very good & areas that other authors have often failed to coverin the same depth.

Collins attempts to take a Biblical perspective on issues & frequently refers to the Scriptures. His stance is Evangelical & tends to be middle of the road to strongly conservative. There is a set of materials made up of forty audiotapes, a counsellor's manual & worksheets for counselees which could be purchased with this book & I cannot comment on these. However, the book stands well on its own & is brilliant for the amount of interesting material it contains. This book is a very useful tool for Christian counsellors, ministers & those involvedin pastoral care.