COUNSELLORS & COUNSELLING
By Noel Due
Rutherford House. 69 pages. £3.99
ISBN 1 904429 02 5
This little book is a 'quick-read' guide for church leaders on the essentials of the current counselling scene and issues a challenge to the church to develop a deeper biblical understanding of human psychology.
Short chapters cover the topics of who does counselling, what the roots (Freudian, Rogerian, etc.) of the various counselling schools are, who their clients are and what happens in a counselling relationship. The later, and for this reviewer the more interesting material, covers whether counselling works, and what the various responses of influential Christians (from Jay Adams to Gary Chapman) and secular sceptics have been to counselling.
