PEOPLE IN PRINT
October 1, 1987
Counsel for Counselors Basic Skills for Christian Counselors by Richard P. Vaughan, S.J., Paulist, $8.95 Self-Talk, Imagery, and Prayer in Counseling by H. Norman Wright, Word, $12.95 Reviewed by Dennis L. Gibson, psychologist, Wheaton (Illinois) Counseling Associates "I see ministers facing counseling situations, zealous to handle them well, yet asking, 'What do I do next?' With this book, I hope to offer them . . ." I posed that incomplete statement to Richard Vaughan and Norman Wright, two men who have recently published books on counseling. Each completed the sentence differently. Vaughn; "A textbook for a course in pastoral counseling, and help for counselors without formal training to become acquainted with the basic procedures in pastoral counseling." Wright: "A variety of practical techniques as well as some stimulating new slants they have probably not encountered before." Together, the two books offer a solid introduction to lay or pastoral counseling. Each returns repeatedly to the central reality of God's sovereignty and the need for counselees to renew their minds. Both authors cull through current counseling theory and techniques to find those that implement this biblical perspective. Richard Vaughan has, for nearly ten years, taught counseling psychology to graduate students in the Los Angeles area, where he has also served a Roman Catholic parish through twenty-five years of ethnic and racial changes. His book quotes extensively from the most salient works of counseling psychology Norman Wright has also taught graduate students for the past twenty years at both Biola University and Talbot Graduate School of Theology. He ministered for seven years in a local church. Wright founded and directs Christian Marriage Enrichment ...
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