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Skills for Effective Counseling: A Faith-Based Integration is unavailable, but you can change that!

Anyone in a helping profession—including professional counselors, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, chaplains and others—needs to develop effective communication skills. But learning these skills is like learning a new language: it takes time and practice to communicate effectively, and lack of practice can lead to the loss of one’s ability to use this new language. Suitable for both...

First Corinthians 12:4–6 tells us, “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.” As much as Paul was speaking to the church in general, this concept also applies to the work that counselors do. Although each of you are here because of some broad common interest in caring for people, you
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