Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. An introduction to pastoral counseling -- ch. 1. Pastoral counseling : a discipline of unity amid diversity / Jill L. Snodgrass -- ch. 2. Pastoral counseling's history / Loren Townsend -- Part II. Pastoral counseling : ways of being -- ch. 3. Pastoral counselors : mental health professionals / Elizabeth A. Maynard and Rodney Parker -- Part III. Pastoral counseling : ways of understanding -- ch. 4. The human condition : pastoral perspectives / Jesse Fox, ... [et al.] -- ch. 5. The nature and function of suffering / Lawrence M. LeNoir -- ch. 6. The challenges of being bilingual : methods of integrating psychological and religious studies / Carrie Doehring -- ch. 7. To diagnose or not to diagnose : pastoral counseling distinctives in conceptualizing and engaging human distress / Thomas E. Rodgerson -- ch. 8. Religious and spiritual assessment in pastoral counseling / Paul J. Deal and Gina Magyar-Russell -- ch. 9. Responding to explicit and implicit spiritual content in pastoral counseling / Jill L. Snodgrass and Konrad Noronha -- ch. 10. Cross-cultural counseling : the importance of encountering the liminal space / Kari A. O'Grady, Kenneth White, and Heidi Schriber-Pan -- Part IV. Pastoral counseling : ways of intervening -- ch. 11. Common ground : pastoral counseling and allied professional interventions / Timothy S. Hanna -- ch. 12. Set apart : the distinctiveness of pastoral counseling interventions / Christina Jones Davis -- ch. 13. Pastoral counseling and spiritual direction / Joseph A. Stewart-Sticking -- Part V. Pastoral counseling and religious diversity -- ch. 14. Religious location and counseling : engaging diversity and difference in views of religion / Kathleen J. Greider -- ch. 15. Earning closeness with our maker : a Torah-based approach to counseling / Michael Lockman -- ch. 16. Reframing pastoral counseling : toward developing a model of pastoral care within Muslim communities / Shahnaz Savani -- ch. 17. Kalamitra : a Buddhist approach to pastoral counseling / Stephen Clarke -- ch. 18. Hindu approaches to pastoral counseling / Sharanya Udipi -- ch. 19. Native American spiritualities and pastoral counseling / Michael T. Garrett, ... [et al.] -- ch. 20. Pastoral counseling and queer identities / Jason Hays -- Part VI. Special issues in pastoral counseling -- ch. 21. Referral, consultation, and collaboration / Elizabeth Denham Thompson -- ch. 22. Shepherding the flock : supervising pastoral counselors in training / Danielle LaSure-Bryant -- ch. 23. Understandning pastoral counseling research / Joanne L. Miller -- ch. 24. Pastoral counseling at a distance / Serena A. Flores and Elizabeth A. Maynard -- ch. 25. Childhood studies and pastoral counseling / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore -- Part VII. The future of the discipline -- ch. 26. Futures of a past : fram within a more traditional pastoral counseling model / Joretta L. Marshall -- ch. 27. Integrative psychotherapy training program : a department of spiritual care and education / James W. Pruett and F. Morgan Enright -- ch. 28. Perspectives from beyond the field : psychology and spiritually integrated psychotherapy / L. Mickey Fenzel.

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