Skills for Effective Counsels

Abstract

As the authors of this text, we are well aware that what we are attempting in this book is a lofty and complex task. We want to help people learn how to be better people helpers. The book is a culmination of our combined decades of working with counselees and students. We hope that you are driven by the same desire that compels us to write the book: a deep spiritual concern to respond to a hurting world in ways that reflect the love of God, the sacrifice of Jesus and the compassion of the Spirit. Learning new skills is not easy; we hope that our efforts to explain and to nurture these skills bear fruit in your own life and relationships, and in your chosen ministry context.