Empowering Couples: A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care
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Empowering Couples: A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care  -     By: Duane R. Bidwell

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Title: Empowering Couples: A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care
By: Duane R. Bidwell
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 144
Vendor: Fortress Press
Weight: 7 ounces
ISBN: 080066342X
ISBN-13: 9780800663421
Series: Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling
Stock No: WW663420

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Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations. Critically integrating desert spiritual theology with empirical data about successful marriages, Bidwell advocates for mutuality and partnership within covenanted relationships, which allows partners to create an alliance strong enough to resist the forces that threaten relationshipsespecially the negative influences of criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and withdrawal.

Pastors who adopt the approach outlined in the text will "travel lightly" in terms of pastoral power, decentering themselves so that couples can identify and build on their unique strengths and relationship with the divine.

Author Bio

Duane R. Bidwell is professor of practical theology, spiritual care, and counseling at Claremont School of Theology and a minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is the author of Short-Term Spiritual Guidance, The Formation of Pastoral Counselors, and Empowering Couples.

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