Gestalt in Pastoral Care and Counseling : A Holistic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780789002389 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str.

Jeffrey D. Hamilton

Opis

Gestalt in Pastoral Care and Counseling is the only book to provide you with an integrated model of pastoral care and counseling from the perspective of Gestalt theory. Covering all aspects of ministry, including visitation, counseling, worship, and administration, it is a valuable text for advanced undergraduate or graduate classes and small group or individual study for seminaries, church ministries, pastoral counseling training programs, and lay pastoral ministry programs. This book will increase your confidence in your work, help you understand blockages as well as avenues of change, and lead you to a more creative, yet consistent, stance in your ministry.

O autorze

Jeffrey D. Hamilton, DMin, is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a Pastoral Counselor at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He completed his post-graduate training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Dayton Institute for Marriage and Family Therapy. After serving local congregations in Central Pennsylvania, he completed his residency in Clinical Pastoral Education at Abington Memorial Hospital. He began his career in pastoral ministry at Miami Valley Hospital as chaplain in the Critical Care and Trauma Departments, joining the pastoral counseling staff in 1986. Reverend Hamilton is a member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a Certified Chaplain and Fellow of the College of Chaplains. He teaches widely in the areas of lay pastoral ministry, ministry to persons living with AIDS, and small group development. He received his DMin from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio; his MDiv from Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and his MSSA from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.