Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities

by Margaret Kornfeld

Overview

Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseling. Margaret Zipse Kornfeld, a pastoral psychotherapist for almost thirty years, focuses on wholeness, the dynamics change, an inclusive understanding of spirituality, the caregiver/ counselor, and on community as not merely the context for healing but also the means by which healing happens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826412324
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/01/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Margaret Zipse Kornfeld is a pastoral psychotherapist, an American Baptist pastor, a longtime faculty member of the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute and of Union Theological Seminary; and president-elect of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

Editorial Reviews

"A state-of-the-art guide for all who minister today!"--Catholic Library World

"A tour de force.... Kornfeld's treatment of listening, women's needs, clergy confidentiality, unemployment, fee-taking, and the health and spirituality of the 'counselor in community' is brilliant."--Christian Century

"A wise, humane, and practical book about healing in religious communities."--Values and Visions

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