Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling: An Effective short-term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
Charles Allen Kollar
Jun 2010 · Zondervan
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This groundbreaking book, now updated and expanded, furthers its original, effective, time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands. Dr. Charles Kollar presents a departure in pastoral counseling, showing that counseling need not be long-term or depend on psychological manipulation to produce dramatic results. In most cases, the solution lies with the counselees themselves. Using the tested methods found in Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, pastors, apart from counselors, will be well equipped to help their counselees discover a solution and put it in motion speedily and productively.SFPC is short-term—typically one to five sessions, in which the counselor seeks to create solutions with—not for—the counselee. The focus is on the possibility of life without the problem through an understanding of what is different when the problem does not occur or is less intrusive. The goal is healthy change, sooner rather than later, by helping the counselee see and work on the solution with God’s activity already present in his or her life.The solution-focused approach does not require the counselor to be a highly trained psychological expert. It requires biblically based sensitivity and common sense. Yet this approach also recognizes its limitations and understands that there are situations in which other professional and/or medical help is required.
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Demetrius Schwab
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March 4, 2015
With only a one sided view on the journey to recovery, Kollar presents a method that could be useful, but misses the mark. He starts off his book by criticizing the mental health industry and why pastors need to take back counseling. He himself admits to creating a dichotomy that others in the church profess. He assumes that the mental health industry is out to make money and isn't shy in presenting that, almost as a fact. The book is riddled with his own personal opinions that detract from the method.
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Dr. Charles Allen Kollar is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Relationship Specialist, and the lead pastor at Innovation Church in Cresco, PA
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