Theology for Better Counseling: Trinitarian Reflections for by Virginia Todd Holeman

By Virginia Todd Holeman

At one time, Virginia Todd Holeman "Toddy" idea being biblically literate was once all she wanted and had no interest in what genuine theologians noted. yet in her counseling she chanced on that consumers pressed her for more.

They did not simply wish what she had won via education within the most sensible theories and practices on hand for counseling. They requested not easy theological questions usually regarding their affliction. As she describes it, they skilled a type of "theological disequilibrium . . . which left them discouraged, disoriented and sometimes distraught."

Holeman exhibits how deep and transparent theological mirrored image could make a massive distinction in counseling perform. not just can it form who we're, it might additionally convey into higher alignment our theological commitments, our healing practices and our specialist ethics. all of the whereas it might probably have the main functional influence on our counseling periods.

In this quantity Holeman publications counseling scholars, pastoral counselors and authorized psychological future health pros into changing into as well-formed theologically as they're expert clinically.

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