Counseling and Pastoral Care in African and Other Cross-Cultural Contexts
Counseling and Pastoral Care in African and Other Cross-Cultural Contexts

Author: Tapiwa N. Mucherera

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-11-03

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1498283446

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The coming of Colonization and Christianity to Africa and other indigenous cross-cultural contexts was a "mixed bag" of pros and cons. The impact of the advent of the two has had a lasting effect being felt even today. It created issues of bi-culturalism and bi-religiousness in personal and religious identities that counselors and the church need to address when working with people from these contexts. There is the existence of deep cultural trauma (including psychological and spiritual scars) needing healing for those living in most of these post-colonial contexts. The Western counseling approaches and Christian rituals need contextualization. A counselor or pastoral caregiver with an integrative consciousness is required to address the psychological and religious identity conflicts existing in African and other indigenous cross-cultural contexts.

Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts
Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts

Author: Tapiwa N. Mucherera

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1498221890

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Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today. Drawing on biblical, theological, social scientific, and cultural contextual perspectives, these African Christians offer much needed insights to assist in the care and counseling of persons towards healing, health, and well-being.

In Living Color
In Living Color

Author: Emmanuel Y Lartey

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2003-03-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1846423988

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The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and reexamined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order to effectively counsel, guide and empower them. He provides a clear and concise history of pastoral care and considers its relationship to different models of counseling and spirituality. This new edition has been updated to reflect postmodern and postcolonial studies and provides illustrations of how an intercultural approach can work in practice. Theological teachers and students will welcome its return as an indispensable introduction to the field of pastoral care. In Living Color is an essential source of inspiration to leaders from any religious stream who wish to provide pastoral care in a way that reflects their community's cultural diversity. This book is also a useful resource for practitioners in a wider range of caring contexts who work in multicultural environments.

Drinking from the Same Well
Drinking from the Same Well

Author: Lydia F. Johnson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-05-09

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 161097011X

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Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling. It traverses the broad terrain of cultural analysis and also explores in depth a number of discrete cross-cultural issues in pastoral counseling, related to communication, conflict, empathy, family dynamics, suffering, and healing. Cultural analysis and theological reflection are situated alongside numerous case studies of persons and situations that enflesh the concepts being discussed, and readers are invited to engage personally with the material through a variety of focus questions and reflective exercises. This book can serve as a helpful textbook for seminarians and a useful guide for pastors and priests, church study groups, multicultural parishes, and anyone engaged in helping ministries with persons from other cultures. The goal is to develop culturally competent pastoral caregivers by providing a comprehensive and practical overview of the generative themes and challenges in cross-cultural pastoral care.

Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures
Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures

Author: David W. Augsburger

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780664256166

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In this book David Augsburger discusses the dynamics of pastoral care and counseling across cultural lines. Augsburger combines theology with global perspective and cultural sensitivity to posit an inclusive understanding of pastoral care. This book will be of great interest to pastoral counselors in both academic and practical contexts.

Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West
Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West

Author: Ibidun B. Daramola

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2018-07-14

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1643246259

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This is the first time an author has listened to pastors in Africa and compared her findings with pastoral counseling from a Western perspective. Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West presents a practical record of pastoral counseling in Africa. It accounts for the wide difference between pastoral counseling in Africa and the West considering that pastoral counselors in Africa received Western theological training. It presents a theological perspective of the pastoral counseling ministry in Africa and the West. It also presents both perspectives as professional partners in conversation with each other. “Thank God for providing trained experts like Dr. Daramola to enlighten His people. I have every confidence this publication is only the first installment. More GRACE to her elbows!” Emmanuel Oladipo Former International Secretary Scripture Union

Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West
Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West

Author: Ibidun B. Daramola

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781919620718

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"Pastoral counseling in Africa and the West is a masterpiece but a simple read for anyone who wants to practice counseling across cultures. It enables you to understand the wide variety of cultures in which the discipline operates with their distinctiveness. It equips the readers to counsel people from different cultures in a practical manner. The findings are based on research I conducted to understand the wide gap between pastoral counseling in Africa and the West. The results describe what counselors do in both settings. Counseling in the African context operates within the African worldview, but in the West is informed by psychology as its basis of operation. Due to the vital role that the African worldview plays in pastoral counseling within that context, it has culture, prayer, spirituality elements of prophecy and deliverance embedded in its practices. Christians are aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit. They acknowledge him and invite the Holy Spirit to be a significant partner in their practice. On the other hand, pastoral counselling in the West is built on professionalism, with psychology as its backbone. At the onset of counseling in the West, it had a Christian foundation. However, the growth of psychology in the therapeutic profession means that it has gradually relegated scripture to the background in some practices. In contrast, psychology is promoted even in Christian based counseling. This book touches on various forms of counselling such as couple, family, intending couples, pre and post-marital counseling. Despite the different perspectives from which these practices are drawn and focus, they can still encourage and learn from each other. Therefore, pastoral counselling in Africa and the West calls on its readers to learn from each other and improve on this worthy call to counsel."--

A Study of Pastoral Care of the Elderly in Africa
A Study of Pastoral Care of the Elderly in Africa

Author: Samuel Ayete-Nyampong

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1496989104

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In this book, Rev. Dr. Samuel AyeteNyampong has revealed his passion for the good quality of life for the ageing population in Africa and the development of Pastoral Gerontology courses in Theological Institutions across Africa. This book is a resource material for building the capacity of church leaders in the provision of care and support for the ageing population in Africa. All who read this book will find it inspiring, full of deep thoughts, and a challenge to the church and state, thereby provoking sensitivity to the needs of the ageing population in Africa. This book is highly recommended for church leaders, theological students, students of Gerontology and to all who have a passion to promote the quality of life of the ageing population.

The Formation of Pastoral Counselors
The Formation of Pastoral Counselors

Author: Duane R. Bidwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0789032953

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Two dozen of the most prominent clinicians and scholars in the field reflect on The Formation of Pastoral Counselors from clinical, theological, and theoretical perspectives. This unique book explores the challenges to the personal and professional formation of pastoral counselors in a cultural and historic context that's radically different from the era when the profession first emerged as a specialized ministry. Contributors examine formation from a variety of contexts and perspectives, including spirituality and gender, address theological education and intercultural issues, and present emerging models for pastoral counselors.

Cross-cultural Counseling
Cross-cultural Counseling

Author: Aart Van Beek

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published:

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781451403404

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Using a wide variety of concrete cases, van Beek outlines sensitivities, awarenesses, and skills fundamental to cross-cultural counseling issues such as identity, sense of belonging, worldview, identification, family counseling, and use of biblical resources.