Family Counseling and the Minister

Abstract

The appropriateness of family counseling for the minister is discussed by a seminary professor in terms of its family context, its ecological orientation, its varied emphases, its active intervening role, its courageous confronting of reality, and its expectations of effecting change. A simulation of family counseling, as presented by a minister who is a family therapist, is described and analyzed in terms of thirty-seven principles which were illustrated.