The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establishing the actual relationship. This new edition elaborates on and expands the author's previous work, adding an intercultural perspective that gives more attention to religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. It offers a road map for using a step-by-step narrative, relational, embodied approach to spiritual care that respects the unique ways people live out their values and beliefs, especially in coping with stress, loss, and violence. Readers will be able to confidently and professionally offer pastoral care and counseling to members of their congregations or other places of ministry.

Doehring, Carrie

Carrie Doehring is Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Iliff School of Theology in Colorado. She is a licensed psychologist and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In addition to the first edition of The Practice of Pastoral Care, she is the author of Internal Traumatization and Taking Care: Monitoring Power Dynamics and Relational Boundaries in Pastoral Care and Counseling.