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Ministers—both clergy and lay—are often the first recourse for people in crisis, and people expect them to navigate through emergency, tragedy, disaster, loss. Often these persons are paralyzed and they expect help to get in motion again. Crisis Counseling is written for persons who seek to provide such assistance, whether as ministers or hotline volunteers or pastoral counselors. Here, Howard...

share a particular method of intervention based upon theories of crisis—a method that has a broad theoretical base and has been effective in practice. KEY CONCEPTS A crisis can be understood as a crucial time and a turning point. In the present context it is the term for an individual’s internal reaction to an external hazard. It involves a temporary loss of coping abilities, a paralysis of action. Any definition of crisis makes a tacit assumption that the emotional dysfunction is reversible. Persons
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