Discussion: Connect Care-Seeker to Community

Discussion: Connect Care-Seeker to Community

Discussions: Solution-based Short-term Pastoral Counseling Phases are this course's unique final project. This discussion forum covers Phase Four: Connect Care-seeker to Community. Be fully engaged in Phase Four! After reviewing the readings and other course content, artificially move your predetermined care-seeker (i.e., Crossroads’ Care-seekers: Bruce, Joshua, Brody, Justin, or Melissa) through Phase Four.

NOTE: These forums require that you draw upon ALL required course resources to substantively develop each phase in our Solution-based, Short-term, Pastoral Counseling process. Make every effort to be attentive to our Solution-Based Short-term Pastoral Counseling (SbStPC) Handout. The distinctive phase features are delineated in the SbStPC handout. Be noticeably attentive to the distinctive phase features and required course resources in this forum. Use the following headings to organize your post.

· Rapport and Relational Alignment. Briefly explain how you will maintain rapport and check your relational alignment (i.e., use DISC language) to support forward progress. Also briefly describe your care-seeker’s behavioral position (i.e., willing, blaming, attending).

· Phase Four Distinctive Features. Narrate movement of care-seeker through Phase Four’s distinctive features (i.e., purpose, goal, chief aim, role/responsibility, use of guiding assumptions) and apply pertinent insights and techniques from the required course resources.

· Supportive Feedback Break. In light of your care-seeker’s unique journey, what insight(s), technique(s), and resource(s) will you need to reinforce in order to support his/her forward progress in community?

· Phase 4 Marker. Describe a marker that indicates successful disengagement from counseling is underway.

· Food for Thought? In what ways do Hebrews 10: 24-25 and the following websites, inform how to prepare your ministry or agency-based context for effective Phase 4 connections?

· Mental Health Ministries

· Why Small Groups?

· Discover Resources Near You

· An Example of a Local Church's Counseling Support