Psychology, religion, and human need; a guide for ministers, doctors, teachers, and social workers.
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Author / Creator: | Carrington, William Lytle, 1914- |
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Imprint: | Great Neck, N.Y. Channel Press [©1957] |
Description: | xi, 315 pages |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13224215 |
Table of Contents:
- Part one: The modern psychological and religious approach to human need
- 1. The general nature and scope of personal help
- The modern Christian ministry
- The inner resources needed
- Making contact and winning confidence
- 2. The general psychological background
- The springs of human attitude and conduct
- The main schools of psychology
- The specific psychological and religious background
- Development of personality, abundant life
- Part two: The personal and educational ministry
- 4. The fine art of visiting and interviewing people
- Is pastoral visiting still worth while in these days
- The real purpose of pastoral visiting
- Some practical aspects of visiting
- The fine are of interviewing
- Some practical aspects of interviewing
- 5. Helping people in worship, prayer, and the guidance of God
- 6. Educating people for Christian marriage and parenthood
- An urgent and universal need
- A comprehensive plan to meet it
- 7. Pre-marital preparation: medical and pastoral aspects
- The medical part in pre-marital preparation
- The pastoral part in pre-marital preparation
- 8. The wedding and the early years of marriage
- Making the most of the marriage service
- Education after marriage and for parenthood
- 9. Equipping parents t give religious and sex education to young children in the home
- Example: the character of the parents
- Experience: the parents' control of the child's environment
- Experiment: project and practice
- Direct teaching by picture, word, and the answering o questions
- The sexual part of religious education in the home
- 10. Equipping parents another to understand and help the adolescent
- Fitness for marriage, courtship, and choice of mate, "the case for chastity"
- Part three: The healing ministry
- 11. The church's part in healing.
- 12. Priestly healing
- 13. Pastoral healing through personal counseling
- 14. The Christian approach to some emotional disorders
- Resentment against life, or against God
- Resentment against other people
- The sense of guilt or failure
- Anxiety and apprehensiveness
- Frustration and futility
- Loneliness
- Grief
- Some sexual difficulties and conflicts
- 15. Understanding and helping the alcoholic
- 16. Understanding and helping the mentally ill
- What do we mean by "mental illness"
- The psychoneurotic and psychosomatic reaction types
- The psychotic reaction types
- Psychopathic disorders
- 17. Marriage counseling
- 18. Visiting the sick
- Part four: The evangelistic ministry
- 19. "Every Christian an evangelist."