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Pastoral Skills and Methods

PC003-612/712/812
On-campus, Online live, Online recordings
Level 6, Level 7, Level 8

3 hours per week in semester 2, annually

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.

METHOD

Classroom instruction and discussion; assignments

KEY TEXTS

  • 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 DESCRIPTIONS

Training for the Kingdom of Heaven

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