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Types of People: How to Counsel Them Biblically is unavailable, but you can change that!

Each counselee is different from the last one. Is your counselee shy, or lazy, or vivacious, or critical, or polite, or bored, or jealous, or …? These types of attitudes and actions should be taken into account as you counsel and may actually be part of the problem that brought him to you (or possibly part of the solution). This book takes a brief look at many attitudes or actions from a Biblical...

Both complainers and whiners are hard to take. Ask them politely, “How are you today?” and you get a ten-minute recital of all their ills and misfortunes. Most people try to avoid them whenever possible. At the very least, they are careful about greetings, “Nice to see you,” works better than “How are you?” they soon discover! But this social problem isn’t the main issue. Usually, it is merely a matter of insensitive indiscretion on their part but, of course, it can also signal
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