Pastoral Drug Counseling

With the pastoral counseling and treatment strategies material providing context, the review then presents an exploration of articles relevant to the use of pastoral counseling for the person addicted to crack cocaine. It should be noted that since the pastoral counseling discussed in this review is Christian counseling (Full-Gospel, Bible-based, Jesus-oriented), the two terms are used synonomously in parts of the review.

Adams (1970) defines pastoral counseling as the delivery of Christian psychological services by a church minister. Likening the pastor to The Good Shepherd who cares for his weary and wandering flock, Adams notes that the metaphor:

. . .pictures the responsibilities that a pastor carries for his people. The reviving of the soul, rest, peace of heart and mind, are still basic needs of God's sheep. And pastors, as undershepherds, cannot shirk their responsibility to provide for these needs. They cannot delegate this responsibility to a psychiatrist. (Adams, 1970, p.66-6

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es. Therefore, they need redecision work. In secular transactional counseling, the patient is made to review his/her life circumstances to such a depth that he/she reaches a point where a new decision can be made based on the fresh perspective and input. This redecision process is often called "scripting" wherein one's life is seen as a story which they have written for themselves and they are now writing a new "script." In order to understand how redecision work applies to the transactional approach as used in Christian counseling, Lawrence states that there is a need to realize that this redecision work, for both the pastor and the counselee, can be reframed; that is the humanistic views that underlie the Transactional approach can be substituted with bible concepts and terms. For example, the Transactional Analysis principle of scripting is translated to the biblical principle of sowing and reaping. The techniques of creative imagination and memory are then used to help the client to recreate scenes from the past and on the basis of these recreations, to make new decisions. Also, prayer is used to assist in arriving at new decisions. Through the use of this reframing process, Lawrence asserts that transactional psycholo
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