Description:
Effective counseling depends on mastering basic communication skills. In this integrative, classroom-ready text, Elisabeth Nesbit Sbanotto, Heather Davediuk Gingrich and Fred Gingrich break these skills into manageable microskills and connect them to insights and practices from Scripture, theology and spiritual formation.
Brief description:
Fred C. Gingrich was professor of counseling at Denver Seminary for sixteen years. He previously taught in Ontario for eight years and directed MA and EdD degrees in counseling at seminaries in the Philippines. He retired as developer and director of the MA in marriage and family therapy program at the Toccoa Falls College School of Graduate Studies. He is coeditor of Treating Trauma in Christian Counseling.
Review Quotes:
"Professionals often zero in on disciplinary differences in approach, but in this excellent text Elisabeth Nesbit Sbanotto, Heather Davediuk Gingrich, and Fred C. Gingrich transcend disciplinary differences and get to the heart of being a better people-helper-the interpersonal helping skills shared across people-helping disciplines. This is a comprehensive, readable text that is a fully integrated Christian and psychological model for being an effective helper. Regardless of your discipline or theoretical approach you'll love it."