Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pastoral care and counseling : challenges and opportunities -- A model for spiritually centered holistic pastoral caregiving -- The history, mission, and theological-biblical foundations of pastoral caregiving -- Foundational skills for most types of caring and counseling -- Methods of holistic supportive caregiving -- Short-term pastoral counseling in crises -- Holistic caregiving in challenging crises -- Caregiving in chronic and long-term illness -- Bereavement caregiving : before, during, and after losses -- Healing spiritual brokenness and cultivating spiritual wholeness in pastoral care and counseling -- Ethical, meaning, and value issues in pastoral care and counseling -- Crisis counseling and enrichment with couples -- Pastoral care, counseling, and enriching families -- Educative counseling -- Group pastoral care and counseling -- The art of referral in pastoral caregiving -- Inclusive caregiving : bridging cultural, racial, ethnic, class, and gender diversity -- Equipping laypersons for caregiving ministries -- Self-care for caregivers.