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Authors: James E. Dittes
ISBN-13: 9780664257385, ISBN-10: 0664257380
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: James E. Dittes

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction1
The Counselee
1"Can You Talk with Me?"17
2The Counselee's Experience of Counseling39
The Counselor
3The Pastoral Counselor as Witness57
4A Gracious Nonchalance: Regarding the Counselee "As Is" and "As Though"81
5. Empowering by Tracking Feelings99
Special Issues
6Ambivalence, Resistance, and Re-covery119
7Getting Started: Precounseling or Counseling?133
8Counseling as God's Call145

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