scholarly journals Improving performance: what pastoral counselors can do?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Yoseph Pedhu
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Counselor Performance

Pastoral counselor performance is considered to impact on client wellbeing. The performance of pastoral counselors refers to their performance in doing counseling. This article explores the performance of pastoral counselors and strategies to improve it. The author examines the concepts and factors that contribute to the performance of counselors. Previous research on performance is reviewed. Based on this review, the author elaborates on some strategies that can help pastoral counselors improve their performance in carrying out pastoral counseling.

The Professionalization of the Parish Pastoral Counselor

1973 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris Taggart
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
The Church

By virtue of their similarities in professional training, competence and activities, as well as their differentness from both clergy in general and other pastoral specialists, pastoral counselors have emerged as an identifiable professional group. Some of the implications which this kind of professionalization may have for the relation between pastoral counseling and the Church at large are examined, especially the low status of the parish as a work setting for professional pastoral counselors. A call is made for pastoral counseling to redefine its relationship to the parish in ways which reflect professional rather than political concerns.

Pastoral Counseling and Faith Issues

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leroy T. Howe
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
The Many

What is distinctively “pastoral” about pastoral counseling? This article proposes that the vital center of pastoral counseling is guidance of persons toward life lived out in accordance with a set of ultimate values and meanings. The proposal is elaborated upon by discussing the tasks of guiding persons experiencing difficulties with aspect of their faith. Pastoral ministry today is both enhanced and plagues by a proliferation of expectations. Struggling to meet all of them, many pastoral counselors are experiencing distress over a threatened loss of identity. They ask, with increasing frequency: In all of the many kinds of counseling I am now doing, where is the distinctively pastoral contribution to be found? On what basis do I continue to call myself a pastoral counselor? For all of their expanding competencies as pastoral counselors, one central expectation of their work continues prominently among believers and nonbelievers alike. People continue to hope that pastoral counselors, because they are pastoral counselors, can help them to grow in the light of ultimate values and meanings. How to facilitate such growth is the concern of the present article.

An Exploration into the Reasons People Choose a Pastoral Counselor Instead of Another Type of Psychotherapist

1977 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil J. Posavac ◽  
Bruce M. Hartung
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
Counseling Centers ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Referral Rates ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Religious Reasons

The results of several approaches to understanding the laymen's perception of fulltime pastoral counselors are reported. No striking differences among the respondents' views of various types of psychotherapists were found. However, 20% of the clients of a pastoral counseling center gave clear religious reasons for choosing the center rather than seeking help from another source of therapy. Also important was the finding that the rate of clergy referrals to the center (about half of all clients) is far in excess of published clergy referral rates to psychiatrists, psychologists or psychoanalysts. The importance of ties between pastoral counseling centers and community parishes is stressed.

State Licensing and Pastoral Identity

1976 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Robert L. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Pastoral Identity ◽  
The One

The following paper delineates issues related to state licensing for pastoral counselors from the perspective that pastoral counseling is a function of ministry, and accountability is appropriately to the denomination or faith group of the pastoral counselor. It highlights the issue of state licensing on the one side, and the question of ordination on the other. A two-pronged appeal is made to pastoral counselors to be more involved in the educating and informing tasks in relationship to denominations and faith groups, and, when possible, to work for adequate legislation to exempt pastoral counselors from mandatory licensing.

Stages in the Role Cycle of Pastoral Counseling

1982 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Robert L. Randall
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
Stage Theory ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Counselor Role ◽  
The Individual

Contends that there is a role of pastoral counseling which moves through a cycle with discernable stages. These role cycle stages are independent of any particular life stage the individual pastoral counselor may be passing through and may be traversed at any age of adulthood. The stages identified are: pastoral counselor role acquisition; pastoral counseling role performance; pastoral counselor's role assessment; and pastoral counseling role restructuring or rejection. Concludes with a brief statement of implications of a role stage theory.

Adlerian Theory and Pastoral Counseling

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
T. L. Brink
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Adlerian Theory

This article is based on the view that an adlerian perspective on psychotherapy is more consistent with Christian theology than conventional psychoanalysis and that pastoral counselors should, therefore, find it more useful in their counseling. An overview of adlerian theory is presented, including views on “social interest” and “inferiority feelings.” These views are compared to Christian theology and conclusions are drawn as to implications for psychotherapy.

Integrating the Pastoral Dimension into Pastoral Counselor Training Programs

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Marv Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Counselor Training ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
American Association ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Counselor Attitudes ◽  
Training Content ◽  
And Training

Reports on formative evaluation research designed to answer the following questions: “What is the pastoral dimension of pastoral counselor training?,” “What methods are in use to integrate the pastoral dimension into counselor training programs?,” and “What are the satisfaction levels of program participants with regard to this integration process?” Summarizes data gathered from 609 participants representing 26 training programs approved by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Analyzes and interprets the data on counselor attitudes, identity values, training content and training processes. Discusses the implications of the findings for training programs.

Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Counseling: Addressing the Needs of the Spirit

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Galindo
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Epistemological Perspectives

Explicates the differences and similarities between pastoral counseling and spiritual direction and concludes that if pastoral counselors wish to include spiritual direction in their repertoire they need to consider a set of unique epistemological perspectives and a praxis stance often different from the traditional pastoral counseling role.

Pastoral Counseling: An Alternative Path in Mental Health

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jeffrey Means
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Normal Human

Claims that a strong professional identity is key to offering a healing presence and that pastoral counselors can use their dis-ease with conflicting paradigms and wave-trends in mental health care and the wider culture to maintain a professional identity rooted in the history of pastoral care and their respective theological and psychological worldviews. Identifies these wave-trends as the defensive use of language, the medicalization of normal human experience, the lack of interest in developmental perspectives on human life, and the overlooking and denial or internal mental processes of persons. Introduces the concept of pastoral counseling as cultural critique and points out implications of this for the direction of the profession of pastoral counseling.

Efforts to Overcome Countertransference in Pastoral Counseling Relationships

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoseph Pedhu
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Normal Reaction ◽  
Pastoral Counselors ◽  
Counseling Practice ◽  
Counseling Relationships ◽  
Negative Factor

Countertransference is considered as a negative factor that may impede counseling relations but some assume that countertransference is a normal reaction. The purpose of this article is to explore countertransference in pastoral counseling and efforts to overcome it. The author examines the concepts, approaches, and structure of countertransference. Previous research is also reviewed. Based on this review, the author elaborates some strategies that can help pastoral counselors to overcome countertransference in their counseling practice.

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