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    REVIEWER IN PASTORAL COUNSELING

    Pastoral context- it can’t be avoided as pastors, referrals’

    Pastoral care- generally, relationship with people, ministry to people’s needs

    Pastoral counseling- part of pastoral care, assistance of person’s in distress/ psycho-emotional problems
    in relating w/ self, others and God

    Pastoral psychotherapy- in depth-assistance to people in dealing with inner conflicts

    *referrals to psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrist

    Spiritual direction- not on functionality but on the movement of the spirit

    *Abraham Maslow’s growth needs

    COUNSELING APPROACHES AND TECHNIQUES:

    1. PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL APPROACH (Dr. Peck/ Fr. Ruben Tanseco, SJ)


    - Basis of ministry in general, also in family ministry

    Family – persons-in relationship

    Intrapersonal interpersonal metapersonal

    (Self-Esteem) (Affective/Intimacy) (Societal/Social-Christianity)

    Spiritual aspect

    Myself & God myself, others & the God in them I, societal structures & the God

    thru them

    A contemplative heart affective intimacy creative leadership

    Stages of Spiritual Growth

    Stage I- Chaotic, antisocial- frequently pretenders, unprincipled

    Stage II- Formal,institutional, fundamental- submitting to the law but they do not understand the spirit
    of the law

    Stage III- Skeptic, individual- evidence-based, frequently non-believers, but generally more spiritually
    developed, though individualistic, not the least bit antisocial

    Stage IV- mystic, communal- speaks about unity and connectedness, out of love and commitment to the
    whole
    Definitions and examples of Various Religious & Spiritual Interventions

    *Therapist prayer, teaching spiritual concepts, reference to scripture, spiritual self-disclosure, spiritual
    confrontation, spiritual assessment, religious relaxation or imagery, therapist and client prayer, blessing
    by therapist (priest), encouraging forgiveness, use religious community, client prayer, etc.

    CREATION SPIRITUALITY (THE WAY OF THE MYSTICS)- inter-faith approach

    *the Celestine Prophecy, Creation Spirituality, Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

    2. PERSON-CENTERED COUNSELING (Carl Rogers)

    -person-centereed approach/non-directive counseling

    Principle:

    - Man is caopable of becoming a person


    - Counselor as midwife (facilitator of growth)
    - Quality of relationship counts most

    Attitudes needed:

    1. Empathy- feeling what the other person is feeling, non-judgmental


    2. Congruence- aware of what is happening within himself, transparent, true to what he says
    3. Unconditional Positive Regard- looks at the person as worthy and with potentials

    STAGES IN HELPING:

    C- I- A

    1. Catharsis- building rapport, ventilation and catharsis (talking things out)


    2. Insight’- development of insight/objectivity, reonrientation and redirection
    3. Action- implementation

    PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL COUNSELING

    Base: The Humanistic Model, with openness to integrate techniques/strategies from other models
    (integrative approach)

    Value-orietned/Relationship oriented

    Empathy is the essence of approach

    Stages:

    C- I – A

    Catharsis- language of the heart, individual session’s with each spouse

    - Conjoint session with the couple


    - Mutual empathy between husband and wife facilitated by counselor

    Insight- deeper clarification of the content

    Value-clarification

    Feeling + content = meaning

    (Language of the mind)

    Action- toward decision making, conflict resolution

    Psycho-spiritual discernment

    RELATIONSHIP-COUNSELING

    *cases if relationship, community

    Mutual empathy, learning how to dialogue, to listen to one another

    Catharsis- sharing, listening, paraphrasing

    Insight- my contribution to the problem

    Action- what are you willing to do

    Helping Skills:

    1. primary –level empathy


     Attending’
     Leading’
     Focusing
     Reflecting
     Clarifying
    2. Advanced level empathy
     Formula for growth- Confrotnation + caring= growth
     Perception-checking
     Questioning
     Challenging
     Hunch sharing
     Summarizing
     Informing
     Inner resources
    GROWTH-CENTERED COUNSELING (Howard Clinebell, Jr.)

    Goal: Liberate the Human Potentials

    Person: 1, Heart- needs and feelings

    Formula: caring + confrontation

    2. Will, - ability to decide and choose

    3. Human Act’- ability to reach out to satisfying relationship

    St Ireaneus- The glory of God is man fully alive

    STEPS IN HELPING:

    1. DON’T LIKE- what I don’t like in you are…


    2. LIKES- in spite of everything, what I like in you…
    3. NEEDS- what I need from you,,,
    4. CONTRACTING- what I can do,, is/are… (negotiate what you are willing to respond immediately)

    CONFLICT-RESOLUTION MODEL (Philip St. Romain)

    - Growth counseling for marriage enrichment


    1. Problem
    2. Roots’ –family background, values
    3. Different ways of doing things
    4. Win-win solution (with a comnpromise, negotiation)

    Negotiation 4 step process:

    1. Identification of the issue and the expectations you bring to this issue
    2. Identification of the values implicit in the expectations
    3. Examinaition of alternative ways to realize these values’
    4. Reaching agreement on new expectations w/ w/c both parties can live

    *by compromising – each person gives up something

    *synthesizing – each person incorporates the other’s ideas

    For pre-marital and marital dynamics

    _Scaling of 1-10

    1. Authentic Love
    2. Human maturity
     Self-esteem
     Sex & sexuality- biological (genital power), Non-biological (relationship power)
    3. Compatibility
     What – more similarities same values
     Why- more happy/quality relationships there will be fights
     How- Interpersonal Comparison Test (ICT) Marriage Expectation Inventory( MEI)
    4. Values system

    THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES

    1. Words of affirmation
    2. Quality time
    3. Receiving gifts
    4. Acts of service
    5. Physical touch

    AUTHENTIC LOVE’
    Harry Stack Sullivan- love exists when the satisfaction, security, and development of another
    person become as significant to you.”

    Rollo May:
    1. Sex-physical love
    2. Eros- create and procreate
    3. Philia- friendship and companionship
    4. Agape- for the good of the other

    M. Scott Peck: Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s self or ortehr’s
    spiritual growth

    Stages of love:

    1. Falling in love- effortless and sex-linked


    2. Falling out of love- ego boundaries- snap back and realize they are two separate individuals
    3. Deciding to love- authentic, permanently self-enlarging experience

    HISTORICAL APPROACH

    *Genogram- for family therapy

    MURRAY BOWEN’ THEORY

    1. DIFFERENTIATION OF SELF
     Solid self
     Pseudo self
    2. TRIANGLES
     Detouring triangle
     Parent-child coalition
     Split loyalties
     Karpman’s triangle
    3. NUCLEAR FAMILY EMOTIONAL SYSTEM
    4. FAMILY PROJECTION PROCESS
    5. MULTI-GENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION PROCESS
    6. SIBLING POSITION
    7. EMOTIONAL CUT-OFF
    8. SOCIETAL REGRESSION

    Goals:

     Improve the level of differentiation of self


     Reduce anxiety for responsible and open communication within the family
     Reduce underground communication of secrets and gossips
     To decrease the emotional cut-offs
     Work to resolve unfinished business with the family of origin

    Treatment process:

    1. Define and clarify the relationship between spouses


    2. Keep self de-triangled from the family emotional system
    3. Demonstrate differentiation of self during the therapy
    4. Resolve cut-offs

    Birth order (Dr. Kevin leman)

    3 kinds:

    1. First born- achievers, serious, jack of all trades, perfectionist, organized, conservative
     Super first born- special jewel phenomenon
     Pampered and spoiled
     Self-centered
     Controllers
     Little adult
     Add super to the characteristics of the first born
    2. Middle born- easily bounce off, loner, shy, quiet, impatient, easily frustrated, very competitive,
    sociable, friendly, outgoing, takes life in stride, easy-going, avoids conflict
    3. Last born- outgoing charmers, personable manipulators, family clown, I’ll show them attitude

    SYSTEMS THEORY-

    Systems- set of interacting units with relationships among them

    Basic components: parts- (individual members), connection between the parts (relationships), setting
    (environment in which the sytems is set
    Healthy and dysfunctional families

    Characteristics health family dysfunctional

    Family goals/purpose sense of community goals rigidly pursued

    Boundaries clear to all members unclear

    Roles fulfilled in complementary undefined

    Power parents hold the most power constant parent-child clashes

    Rules flexible and negotiable rigid.chaotic

    Communication congruent messages double messages constantly sent

    FAMILY MAPPING – more likely an extension to that of genogram, symbols shows clearer relationships
    of the family, with the goal to cut the conflict now.

    FAMILY/SYSTEM SCULPTURE- doing a sculp of one’s family looking at structural issues in the family
    leading to insights and interventions.

    Unsually one member of the family, will be the sculptor.

    Sculpting shows familystructures, relationships, and the possible intervention towards the end.

    Family floor plan- purpose of family assessemnet and intervention, patterns of family interaction and
    structure by analyzing the fnaily of origin or the present family, information can be obtained to
    understand such dynamics as family rules, roles and myths.

    TRANSFERENCE – TRNASFER OF EXPRESSED FEELINGS FELT BY THE CLIENT TOWARDS THE COUNSELOR

    COUNTER-RTRANSFERENCE – transfer of the feleings from the counselor to the client

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