
Overview
Culbertson has built his text around the ideal of Christian wholeness and maturitya healthy interconnectedness of self-within-community. The heart of the book lies in its presentation of the three schools of counseling theory that Culbertson finds most helpful: family systems theory, narrative counseling theory, and object relations theory. Each of these is explained in detail, and then applied to the most common and challenging of counseling situations: pre-marital counseling, marriage counseling, divorce counseling, counseling gay men and women, and grief counseling. Culbertson brings new sensitivities to the counseling scenea more nuanced grasp of gender, a new sense of families, issues of sexual orientation, a strong sense of the relationship of emotions to spirituality, an empathetic attitude, a pragmatic but professional mix of ancillary theories, and a sense of the relevance of the counselor's own self-understanding.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780800631871
- ISBN-10: 0800631870
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publish Date: January 2000
- Dimensions: 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.71 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.34 pounds
- Page Count: 340