Crisis Counseling

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Crisis Counseling

Abstract

The book 'Crisis Counseling: A Guide for Pastors and Professionals' is written by Phd Dr. Scott Floyd. The book has received a significant favorable response forma wide consumer market. It was published by Kregel Publications, in the year 2008. The author of the book has essentially provided a detailed guideline for the readers to identify and react to a crises situation. Through our lives, technology is a very significant factor; majority of the population on the other hand believes that most common crises sources are caused due to natural causes. However the fact remains that our everyday environment consists of several factors which can result in crise4s situations, and we are at a significant risk in our common day lives. The book written by Floyd has essentially highlighted multiple factors which are generally ignored by the common population, but can have an adverse impact (Floyd, 2008). The author has utilized his cast experience of over 25 years of pastoral related activities, top adequately identify the stress and other factors related to the crises situations. The people who suffer from crises or even the individuals involved I the crises prevention agencies, have to suffer a significant trauma. The impact of the crises situation can stay with the involved individuals, and in the long term have a negative impact ion over a lifelong basis. In this regard the book provides the relevant case and crisis specific information for the professionals and the pastors, to assume the responsibility of crisis councilors.

The author has essentially described the major types of crises that may occur in the general environment, and he has also highlighted the types of crisis situations mentioned in the biblical text. The religious perspective of crises situation is an essential component of the book, because it can help the pastors exercise their religiously oriented duties. The author believes that grief is not a simple emotional s it has multiple layers and can be experienced by people differently. Hence the primary step in the process of crises management is too realize the intensity of the grief emotion felt by the relevant individuals, and asses the emotional and psychological orientation of the victims. An important segment of the book highlighted the ways in which different people can perceive grief and process it differently. He mentioned that for some people the negative impacts of grief can be very limited and may not impact the daily life too much. In these circumstances the negative impacts can occur in the form of minor sleep loss; however in different people the impacts can be far greater. In the intense cases, people might even lose their entire social lives and develop chronological depression (Collins, 1988). Their entire lives can be altered duet other stress and trauma suffered by these incidents. Hence for the pastors and other professionals, grief identification and alleviation should be a paramount concern.

It is an essential task of the pastors to care for the people in need, and provide them the ...