| Description |
139 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Part I: Counseling issues with black counselees -- 1. Ethnicity issues -- "A man of Ethiopia" Acts 8:27 -- West African familial structures -- Black family kinship patterns -- Black self-concept development -- Black counselees and white counselees -- 2. Gender issues -- "A man" Acts 8:27 -- Black masculinity -- Black male and female interactive dynamics -- 3. Sexual issues -- "An eunuch" Acts 8:27 -- Sexuality, sexual orientation, and black counselees -- Sexual myths and stereotypes -- The Christian view of sex -- 4. Power issues -- "Of great authority" Acts 8:27 -- Powerlessness and the black male -- Powerlessness and the black female -- Christian counseling and powerlessness -- 5. Socio-economic issues -- "Who had the charge of all her treasure" Acts 8:27 -- Socio-economics and black family structure -- Socio-economics and marital satisfaction -- 6. Environmental issues -- "And had come to Jerusalem" Acts 8:27 -- Home environmental influences -- Community environmental influences -- 7. Religious issues -- "Come to Jerusalem for to worship" Acts 8:27 -- The Christian faith as a strength of black families spiritual and biblical needs of blacks -- Part II: The counseling process and black counselees: ten biblical principles -- 8. Directive engaging -- "He arose and went" Acts 8:27 -- God's leading in engaging -- Difficulties engaging black counselees -- Suggestions for white Christian counselors -- 9. Affective joining -- "Go near, and join" Acts 8:29 -- Respecting the Ehiopian's chariot -- Methods of joining -- 10. Active listening -- "Heard him read the prophet" Acts 8:30 -- Listening as a means of assessing and gathering data -- Listening for affect and feeling -- Listening to demonstrate empathy -- Listening for meaning and use of language -- 11. Explorative questioning -- "Understandest thou what thou readest?" Acts 8:30 -- Use of questions -- Cautions in questioning black counselees -- 12. Correlative beginning -- "Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture" Acts 8:35 -- Discerning how black counselees get stuck -- Selecting intervention starting points -- 13. Integrative witnessing -- "Preached unto him Jesus" Acts 8:35 -- Five uses of the gospel -- Dealing with the three kinds of sinners -- 14. Objective proceeding -- "As they went on their way" Acts 8:36 -- The goals of biblical counseling -- Goal setting as an empowering tool -- 15. Effective counseling -- "Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart" Acts 8:37 -- Roles for Christian counselors -- levels of biblical counseling -- 16. Cooperative involving -- "They went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch" Acts 8:38 -- Counselee blocks to cooperative involving -- Counselor blocks to cooperative involving -- 17. Positive terminating -- "The Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip" Acts 8:39 -- The role of the Holy Spirit in termination -- Preparing counselees for termination -- Part III: Counseling interventions and black counselees -- 18 Couple and individual approaches -- Biblical marital counseling with black couples -- biblical therapeutic interventions -- Biblical individual therapy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and indexes. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Pastoral counseling of.
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African Americans -- Psychology.
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| ISBN |
0310587115 |
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