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Title:Towards theory and practice of pastoral counseling in Africa
Author:Berinyuu, Abraham AduISNI
Year:1989
Issue:25
Pages:140
Language:English
Series:Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe 27, Asiatische und Afrikanische Studien (ISSN 0721-3581)
City of publisher:Frankfurt am Main
Publisher:Peter Lang
ISBN:363142146X
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Ghana
Subjects:clergy
psychotherapy
counselling
Abstract:The underlying principle of this book on pastoral counselling in Africa is that only when the African is understood as a product of culture, can any ministry be effective or relevant. In chapter one, pastoral counselling is critically examined from an African perspective. Chapter two looks at the idea of personality among the Akan and Tallensi of Ghana. Chapter three deals with divination and its relevance to pastoral counselling. In chapters four and five, the author compares African therapy with Freudian psychotherapy and persuasion healing. Chapter six integrates African and Western forms of healing, drawing mainly on the developmental school as represented by Erickson and applied to pastoral counselling by D. Capps. Chapter seven suggests the direction counselling can take in Africa.