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This book is a trilogy in which Dr. Adams leads both the novice and experienced counselor through the three key counseling sessions (or stages) which are common to the entire counseling process. Getting Started: The First Session What you do in the first session will set the tone for what follows--for good or for ill. If done well, it will help the counselee to gain confidence in your minister...

rather than merely get relief from some problem. Too often, your counselee may arrive full of the relief-orientation. The atmosphere in which he finds himself in your counseling room, however, should go far toward bringing about a change in which his emphasis upon self shifts to an emphasis on God. Atmosphere alone, of course, cannot do this, but it can contribute to such a change. How does one bring about this kind of God-pervasive atmosphere in counseling? I can mention only a few items here. First,
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