| Description |
1 online resource (370 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Depression and the God Image; Chapter 1. Depression and Religious Experience; What Is Depression?; How Does Depression Develop?; Depression in People Who Are Religious; Case Examples: Bob and Lilith; Chapter 2. Discovering the God Image; Who Is Your God?: Exercises in Discovery; What Is the God Image?; How Does the God Image Develop?; What Does Your God Image Reveal?; Integrating the Material; Chapter 3. The God Image: Self, Depression, and Christian Thought |
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What Is the Self?How Does the Person with Depression Experience God?; How Is the God Image Related to Christian Thought?; Part II: Changing the God Image; Chapter 4. The Therapeutic Relationship; Why Conduct an Honest Evaluation of Yourself?; What Are the Core Conditions of the Therapeutic Relationship?; What Counseling Skills Strengthen the Therapeutic Relationship?; Chapter 5. God Image Assessment; Why Is God Image Assessment Important?; How Should a God Image Assessment Interview Be Conducted?; How Should the God Image Assessment Instruments Be Used?; God Image Questionnaire |
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Chapter 6. Psychodynamic PsychotherapyWhat Are Transference, Countertransference, and Cyclical Maladaptive Patterns?; How Do Psychodynamic Interventions Change the Self and God Image?; What Is Internalization and How Does It Affect the God Image?; Chapter 7. Cognitive Techniques; What Is Cognitive Therapy?; How Do Cognitive Interventions Affect the God Image?; Conclusion; Chapter 8. Treatment Planning; What Ethical Issues Are Relevant to God Image Work?; What Are Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning?; What Do God Image Treatment Plans Look Like?; Epilogue |
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Appendix. Blank Therapy FormsReferences; Index |
| Summary |
This book provides the essential tools needed to transform negative God images in depressed clients! Pastoral Care of Depression: Helping Clients Heal Their Relationship with God is designed to help clergy and mental health professionals understand how depression negatively affects the way people emotionally experience God and how, through therapy, this hurtful God image can be changed into a much more positive one focused on healing. In the past, the God image (as well as the essential differentiation between God image and God concept) has been explained in dull, analy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317787105 |
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1317787102 |
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