Pastoral Care with Adolescents in Crisis / Edition 1

by G. Wade Rowatt Jr.

Overview

Drawing on personal experience, clinical knowledge, social research, and interviews, G. Wade Rowatt Jr. outlines the pressures that today's young people experience and offers principles and methods for responding. He focuses on five major areas of adolescent crises: family problems, sexual problems, substance abuse, school pressures, and depression and suicide. This is an essential guide for pastors and youth ministers who work with adolescents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664250393
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	04/01/1989
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

G. Wade Rowatt Jr. is Director of Clinical Pastoral Education at the St. Matthews's Pastoral Counseling Center in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a former Professor of Pastoral Care and Psychology of Religion at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Dr. Rowatt has been a counselor for youth and a resource person for youth ministries for over thirty years.