Assignment:
Note: In order to satisfactorily complete Meaning-Making Forums 1-4, remain closely connected to this handout, required readings, lectures, and previous learning activities. For future reference, journal on this handout as you engage subject matter.
All of readings and learning activities in PACO 500 attempt to increase people-helping competency. As a supporting lecture note, this resource providesa rationale for using SbStPC along with an overview of its counseling process and skills for developing related competencies.
Thoughtfully engage this website as we consider core competencies needed in people-helping moments: The Competent Christian Counselor
1. In what ways does a solution-based, short-term strategy become a value-added to a student-minister's counseling experience?
2. Are we to assume that similar theoretical monikers such as solution-focused brief therapy and Kollar's (2011) solution-focused pastoral counseling are just different names for this course's Solution-Based, Short-term Pastoral Counseling?
3. What are the distinctive features in our SbStPCstrategy?
4. Do we have to create our own guiding assumptions or can we adopt/adapt Kollar's Guiding Assumptions?
5. In what ways might we apply insights from Clinton & Hawkins' Quick Reference Guide in the SbStPC structure?
6. What are the key skills most often associated with SbStPC?
7. Will we use David Benner's (2003) Strategic Pastoral Counselingstages (i.e., Encounter, Engagement, and Disengagement) in our SbStPC structure?