Pastoral Skills and Methods
PC003-612/712/812
3 hours per week in semester 1, annually, on-campus & online
Lecturer: Karl Hood
Overview: This subject includes a Christocentric and biblical-theological approach to relational skills, equipping skills, and pastoral care of people with a range of problems including depression, bereavement, addictions, unemployment, marital conflict and divorce, and psychiatric disorders.
Textbooks: Michael R. Emlet, Descriptions and Prescriptions: A Biblical Perspective on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Medications (Greensboro: New Growth, 2017). J. Alasdair Groves and Winston T. Smith, Untangling Emotions (Wheaton: Crossway, 2019). David Powlison, Speaking the Truth in Love: Counsel in Community (Greensboro: New Growth, 2005). Paul D. Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands (Phillipsburg: P&R, 2002).
ACT unit information:
Pastoral Skills and Methods PC003-612
Pastoral Skills and Methods PC003-712
Pastoral Skills and Methods PC003-812