Engaging A Brief Counseling Approach as a Model for Pastoral Ministry in the Congregational Setting

The Author investigates how the trend toward brief forms of psychotherapy has progressed, and has become the model form of treatment. For many decades, effective psychotherapy was considered to be a long-term process, while short-term therapy had been viewed essentially as superficial. This has changed. For a variety of reasons, short-term therapy is now becoming acceptable, and has many advantages: it is effective, enduring, economical, and humane. Brief pastoral counseling methods, applied to people in the parish setting, are not only as good as longer methods, but are equally effective. It is imperative that brief methods should be the approach of first choice for clergy in congregational settings.Chiew, Charles is the author of 'Engaging A Brief Counseling Approach as a Model for Pastoral Ministry in the Congregational Setting', published 2007 under ISBN 9781929569427 and ISBN 1929569424.