CM-31: Advanced Pastoral Care and Counselling (4 Credits) Course Objectives: To understand the basic principles and methods of pastoral care and counselling. To apply theoretical framework of counselling to actual counselling practice. To survey major systems of therapy in relation to pastoral care and conselling. To relate methods of pastoral care and counselling to specific problems/situations. To improve pastoral counselling skills. Course outline: (a) Understanding Pastoral Care and Counselling in the ministry of the Church. i. Defining the relationship between care, Pastoral Care and Christian pastoral care. ii. Defining the relationship between Counselling, Pastoral Counselling and Christian Counselling. iii. Understanding the relationship between Pastoral Care and Pastoral Counselling. (b) Understanding Basic Principles of Pastoral Counselling: i. The Counsellor's Role and Function. ii. Counsellor's Skills ii. Process, Methods and Goals. iii. Context and Community. iv. Training and Resources. v. Ethics in Pastoral Counselling. (c) Surveying Some Major Systems of Therapy and their Relationship to Pastoral Care and Counselling. i. Psycho-analysis and analytic theory. ii. Client-centered therapy. iii. Gestalt therapy and transactional analysis. iv. Developmental theory: psychosocial. v. Logotherapy, rational therapy and behaviour therapy. vi. Marriage and family therapy. vii. Just Therapy: Paradigm shift from individual counselling to addressing systems. viii. Indian systems of therapy. 1. Directive Counselling or Advice giving model: a critique and reconstruction. 2. Rituals from birth to death; their relevance and significance for pastoral care and counselling. ix. Counselling from feminist/womanist perspective (d) Relating Pastoral Care and Counselling to specific situations/problems: i. Crisis Counselling: Developmental and Situational -Accidental, Identity Crisis, Alienation, Death and Dying, and Suicide. ii. Children in crisis and Aging iii. Stress and coping patterns ii. Sexual problems. iii. Drug addiction and alcoholism. iv. Caste/language/regional conflicts. v. Sexual minorities and the Church. (e) Summary of Course: Reflection and Redefining. Course Requirements: 1. Two brief papers: (a) A Thematic Research Paper. (b) Book Review. 2. 4 written verbatim reports. 4. Two class presentations - any two topics from the syllabus. (The duration of each class is about 2 hours). Bibliography: Arnold, William V. Introduction to Pastoral Care. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1982. Berne, Eric. Games People Play. London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. Brister, C.W. The Promise of Counselling. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. Browning, Don S. The Moral Context of Pastoral Care. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1976. Browning Don S. Religious Ethics and Pastoral Care. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983 Campbell, Alastair V. Rediscovering Pastoral Care .London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981. ______________. Paid to Care? The Limits of Professionalism in Pastoral Care. London: SPCK, 1985. Capps, Donald. Biblical Approaches to Pastoral Counselling. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981 ______________. Life Cycle Theory and Pastoral Care. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1983. ______________. Pastoral Care: A Thematic Approach. Louisville: Westminster Press, 1979. Clebsch, William A & Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective. New York: Harper and Jackle, Charles R. Row, 1967 Clinebell, Howard J. Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling. .Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966 Egan, Gerard. Skilled Helper. Monterey, CA: Brooks Cole. Pub.Co., 1975. Erikson, Erik. Childhood and Society. New York: Norton, 1963. Frankl, Viktor. Man`s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, (1947), 1963. Freud, Sigmund. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. New York: Washington Square Press, Inc. Glasser, William. Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. Hall, Calvin S., & Gardner Lindacy Theories of Personality 2nded. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1970. Hiltner, Seward. & Lowell G. Colsten The Context of Pastoral Counselling .Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1961. ______________. Christian Shepherd: Some Aspects of Pastoral Care. New York: Abingdon Press, 1959. Hulme, William E. Pastoral Care and Counseling. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1981. Jung, Carl. Memories, Dreams, Reflections.(Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe), New York: Vintage Books, 1965. Kelsy, Mortion T. Healing and Christianity in Ancient thought and Modern Times .New York: Harper and Row, 1976. Kemp, Charles F. Pastoral Counseling Guidebook. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1971. Kennedy, Eugene. Becoming a Counsellor. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1977. McNill, John T. A History of the Cure of Souls. New York: Harper and Row, 1951. Oates, Wayne E. Pastoral Counselling. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974. ______________(Ed.) Introduction to Pastoral Counselling. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1959. Perls, Frederick S. Gestalt Therapy Verbatim. Lafayette, CA: Real People Press, 1979. ______________.et.al. Gestalt Therapy. New York: Delhi Pub. Co., 1951. Prashantham, B J. Indian Case Studies in Therapeutic Counselling. Vellore: Christian Counselling Centre, 1984. Pruyser, Paul. The Minister as Diagnostician .Philadelphia: The Westminister Press. 1976. Rogers, Carl R. Client-Centered Therapy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. ______________. On Becoming a Person .Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961 Skinner, B. F. About Behaviourism. New York: Vintage Books, 1974. William, Daniel D. The Minister and the Cure of Souls. New York: Harper, 1961. Wise, Carroll A. Meaning of Pastoral Care .New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1966. ______________ Pastoral Counseling: Its Theory and Practice. New York: Harper and Row, 1951. ______________ Modern Man in Search of a Soul. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1933.