•Basic Spiritual Needs
•The A.B.C.D. Model
•Appropriate and Neurotic Guilt
•Crisis Counseling
•Suicidal Crisis
•Bereavement
•Supportive Care
•Pastoral Care in your Church
•The Pastoral Counselor
•Referral Issues
BASIC SPIRITUAL NEEDS
- To develop philosophy of life; a system of belief and living symbols that give meaning to the fulness of life.
- To develop values and creative images to guide our life-styles in a constructive way.
- To have a relationship with and commitment to a loving God that integrates, transform and energize our life.
- To develop a higher self or soul as the center of our whole being.
- To renew our basic trust in life in order to maintain hope in the midst of losses and tragedies.
- To discover ways to move from estrangement and alienation of guilt to the reconciliation of forgiveness and wholeness.
- To develop ways to undergird self-esteem with an awareness of being deeply valued by God.
- To have regular moments of transcendence, mystical or "peak experiences" when we experience the eternal in the midst of time.
- To belong to a community that nurtures us in our spiritual journey and sustain us in time of suffering and tribulation.
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