SolutionFocused Pastoral Counseling, Charles Allen Kollar
SolutionFocused Pastoral Counseling, Charles Allen Kollar
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Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling
An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track

Author: Charles Allen Kollar

Narrator: John Behrens

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 11/09/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An original, effective, and time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands—fully updated and expanded. Professional counselor and pastor Dr. Charles Allen Kollar found that counseling does not 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 productivelyInstitute healthy change by helping the counselee see and work on the solution with God’s activity already present in his/her lifecreate solutions with—not for—the counseleeSolution-Focused Pastoral Counseling 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.This book reveals the possibility of life without the problem through an understanding of what is different when the problem does not occur or is less intrusive.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

About Charles Allen Kollar

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


Reviews

Goodreads review by BJ on July 29, 2020

Upfront disclosure, I am incredibly biased against counseling. My experience with counseling is one of the worst things that happened in my life. Even though it was with a Christian counselor, it gave me an unbiblical perspective of my life and my past that took years to shake, and in some ways, I s......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 20, 2016

This has good practical tips. But much of the book seems like secular/common grace wisdom, with Bible verses (often out-of-context). This book emphasizes changing actions, not repenting; the counselee's wisdom, not the Bible; and the counselee's strengths, not the Holy Spirit or God's grace. (To be f......more

Goodreads review by Connor on June 13, 2020

I feel entirely apathetic to this book......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on May 01, 2020

60 of 2020: Pastors are often overtaxed by counseling demands on their time in addition to all the other demands on their time. However, just because problems are complex, that does not mean the solutions have to be. Instead of dwelling on causes and motivations, solution-based pastoral counseling p......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on May 24, 2022

This is a different style to Pastoral Counseling. Kollar argues for a Solution Focused approach rather than a Problem Focused approach. He argues with this imagine in mind, "A struggling baseball player should watch their successful film rather than the struggling film". He tells the reader to learn......more