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Addictions: A Comprehensive Guidebook Appropriate for a wide variety of readers who are either treating, learning to treat, doing research on, or teaching about addictions. Comprehensive and succinct, it is written in a manner that is accessible and useful to practitioners, students, clinician trainees, and researchers.
Adsideo : Cross-cultural Ministry in the United States. "Adsideo is Latin meaning to walk beside. Jim and Gina Wicks were called to minister within the United States in a culture not their own. The mission team reflected God's love as its members befriended an inner-city neighborhood, together, shared meals, studied the Scriptures, and even lived within the culture."
APA Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychologists The guidelines for counselors provided by the American Psychological Association.
Basic Types of Pastoral Care & Counseling: Resources for the Ministry of Healing and Growth / by Howard J Clinebell, Jr., Trustee. This third edition is enlarged and revised with updated resources, methods, exercises, and illustrations from actual counseling sessions. This book will help readers be sensitive to cultural diversity, ethical issues, and power dynamics as they practice holistic, growth-oriented pastoral care and counseling in the parish. [Also available as an eBook].
Bible Teaching about Christian Counseling: Theory and Practice/ by Willis C. Newman This is written to give pastors and Christian counselors help when they need to offer counsel to others.
Biblical Approaches to Pastoral Counseling / by Donald Capps. This book was written to help clarify how the Bible may be used in pastoral counseling.
Biblical Concepts for Christian Counseling: A Case for Integrating Psychology and Theology / by William T. Kirwan. "A Case for Integrating Psychology and Christianity."
Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations / by Judy Winter Provides detailed information on how to let go of the “perfect-baby” dream, face and resolve grief, avoid the no-false-hope syndrome, access early intervention services, and avoid the use of limiting and outdated labels.
Challenges and possibilities of inter-religious and cross-cultural apologetic persuasion
Christian cross-cultural counseling: a suggested framework for theory development. / by David J. Hesselgrave. "Some major proposals for the integration of Christian counseling theory with secular theory on the one hand and biblical theology on the other share at least one glaring weakness: they fail to give a large enough place to cultural considerations in general and missionary counseling in particular. Directive, interactional, and permissive counseling approaches do indeed exhibit parallels to 'prophetic-confrontational,' 'pastoral-conversational' and 'priestly-confessional' Christian approaches, but cross-cultural missionary (apostolic) theory and practice must be based on an understanding of cultural differences as well as human universals and individual uniqueness.."
Communicating Christ Cross-culturally: An Introduction to Missionary Commuication / by David J. Hesselgrave. This is written by one who has written a serious work of a gifted scholar.
Competent Christian Counseling, Volume One: Foundations and Practice of Compassionate Soul Care / edited by Timothy E. Clinton and George W. Ohlschlager. "Our mission is to draw truth and wisdom from God's word, synthesizing the very best contributions from science, the arts and literature, and ministry to help construct a potent, contemporary perspective of Christian counseling - one that helps professional clinicians, pastors and pastoral counselors, and dedicated lay helpers..."
Competent to Counsel: Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling / by Jay E. Adams. This author is noteworthy for his reliance on the Bible as a resource in counseling.
Counseling Cross-Culturally: An Introduction to Theory and Practice for Christians / by David Hesselgrave. An attempt to present Christian counseling theories while being culturally sensitive to others.
Counseling Older People: Opportunities and Challenges / by Charlene M. Kampfe Provides insight into the primary issues faced by older adults; the services and benefits available to them; and the knowledge base, techniques, and skills necessary to work effectively in a therapeutic relationship.
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture / by Marvin Harris. "Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligible sources." Website information.
Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication / by William B. Gudykunst Provides an extensive overview of cross-cultural variations in communication by viewing intercultural communication in terms of intergroup communication.
Cross-cultural Communication as a Way of Achievement of Cross-cultural Communicative Competence / by Olga A. Andreyeva, Sholpan K. Tuleubayeva, Anna A. Ganyukova, Zhuldyz M. Tentekbaeza. "In this article authors made an attempt to consider a question of cross-cultural communication as a way of achievement of cross-cultural communicative competence. In the process of Kazakhstan entry into the world community in several plans at once - economic, social and cultural - the need for the highly qualified specialists who know foreign language at the productive level, i.e. capable to conduct communication in foreign language and who have linguocultural knowledge increases."
Cross-cultural communication barriers in health care. / by Shena Parthab Taylor, Colette Nicolle, and Martin Maguire. "To investigate healthcare professionals' perceptions of caring for people from ethnic minorities with poor or no English language skills when accessing health care....It is essential that all individuals are able to interact effectively with healthcare services. New and innovative approaches are necessary to meet the needs of people from ethnic minorities accessing health care. "
Cross-cultural Communication: The Essential Guide to International Business / by Gerard Bannon Guidelines on communication with other cultures.
Cross-Cultural Conflict: Building Relationships for Effective Ministry / by Duane Elmer. The author considers what is needed to gain an appreciation for the insights of others and to develop multiculturalism
Cross-Cultural Connections : Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World. / by Elmer Duane. "Experienced cross-cultural specialist Duane Elmer provides a compass for navigating through different cultures. He shows us how to avoid pitfalls and cultural faux pas, as well as how to make the most of opportunities to build cross-cultural relationships. "
Cross-Cultural Counseling / by Aart Van Beek Offers practical advice to pastors on the most frequent dilemmas of pastoral care and counseling.
Cross-cultural counseling in theological context. / by Charles R. Ridley. "Cross-cultural counseling is a specialty concerned with improving therapeutic effectiveness when the counselor and client represent different cultural or ethnic backgrounds. Unfortunately, consideration of cross-cultural issues has been greatly neglected in the Christian psychology literature. In response to the neglect, this article examines western cultural assumptions and four salient cross-cultural counseling themes: conceptions of mental health, goals of treatment, techniques of treatment, and roles of therapeutic participants. Five theological implications with respect to these issues are discussed."
Cross-Cultural Partnerships : Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission. / by Mary T. Lederleitner. "One of the biggest challenges in global mission work is moneynot merely the need for it, but working through cross-cultural differences surrounding how funds are used and accounted for. Cross-cultural missteps regarding financial issues can derail partnerships between supporting churches and agencies and national leaders on the ground."
Cross-Cultural Servanthood : Serving the World in Christlike Humility. / by Duane Elmer. "Cross-cultural specialist Duane Elmer gives Christians practical advice for serving other cultures with sensitivity and humility. With careful biblical exposition and keen cross-cultural awareness, he shows how our actions and attitudes often contradict and offend the local culture."
Developing a diagnostic filter for cross-cultural counseling: five cases involving Asian Americans examined from a worldview perspective. / by Aart Van Beek "The author advocates a holistic approach to multicultural counseling with Asian Americans that features the exploration of the dynamic interrelationship between worldview, identity, sense of belonging, and identification as a methodology that aims to support counselee growth and integrity as well as to prevent unintended and unproductive suffering. The arguments made may be considered equally valid for other multicultural counseling contexts."
Drinking From the Same Well : Cross-cultural Concerns in Pastoral Care and Counseling. / by " It traverses the broad terrain of cultural analysis and also explores in depth a number of discrete cross-cultural issues in pastoral counseling, related to communication, conflict, empathy, family dynamics, suffering, and healing. "
Encyclopedia of Homelessness, Volume 1 / by David Levinson A readerʼs guide is provided to assist readers in locating entries on related topics. It classifies entries into 14 general categories: Causes, Cities, Demography and Characteristics, Health issues, History, Housing, Legal issues, Advocacy and policy, Lifestyle issues, Organizations, Perceptions of homelessness, Populations, Research, Service systems and settings, World perspectives and issues.
Evidence-Based Practices for Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy. / by James D. Aten. (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books.) "Are Christian treatments as effective as secular treatments? What is the evidence to support its success? Christians engaged in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and counseling are living in a unique moment. Over the last couple decades, these fields have grown more and more open to religious belief and religion-accommodative therapies. At the same time, Christian counselors and psychotherapists encounter pressure (for example, from insurance companies) to demonstrate that their accommodative therapies are as beneficial as secular therapies."
From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World / by Duncan Green. "Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions." Website information.
Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion / by Christine Henseler The research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country’s youth from the 1970s to today.
Global Mission Handbook : A Guide for Cross-cultural Service. / by Stephen Hoke and William David. Taylor. "Veteran mission professionals Steve Hoke and Bill Taylor offer a practical guide for preparing for intercultural missions. They provide resources for personal spiritual preparation as well as cross-cultural skills and hands-on missionary training. "
Good News about Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World / by Gary A. Haugen. "Gary Haugen says "the good news about injustice is that God is against it!" Offering his own and others' stories alongside proven, practical strategies, he shows how you too can stand against injustice wherever it occurs"
Heroes and Saints : The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Pespectives. / by Koichi Shinohara and P. E. Granoff. "the essays in this volume focus exclusively on the moment of death and practices associated with the transition from this world to the next. Five of the essays deal with Asian religions, primarily Buddhism in India, Tibet, China, and Japan. The other five essays deal with the moment of death in the West, old Norse-Icelandic, Old English, and the Judeo-Christian tradition."
Inside Deaf Culture / by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.
Integrating Cross-Cultural Competencies into leadership development. / by Teresa Woodland. "The article offers information on the integration of cross-cultural experiences in Leadership development. Topics discussed include role of psychological maturity in developing skills to encourage stakeholders for investing in business idea and avoiding cross-cultural conflict, single-loop learning providing behavioral coaching for building learning skills and stepping out of comfort zone for strategic partnership.."
International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling: Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide / edited by Lawrence H. Gerstein. Users should go to the start of the Index, p.523, and look for subjects with blue page numbers. These pages should be available to read.
Invitation to Cross-cultural Theology: Case Studies in Vernacular Theologies / by William A. Dyrness. "Invitation to Cross-Cultural Theology seeks to extend the study of theology to the way in which lay communities of Christians endeavor to shape their world by their faith."
Managing Generation Y: Global Citizens Born in the Late Seventies and Early Eighties / by Bruce Tulgan and Carolyn A. Martin. What can you expect from Gen Y? If you liked Gen X employees, you're going to love Gen Yers. They are like Xers on fast-forward with self-esteem. Like their older siblings, talented Yers are independent and techno-savvy. They are entrepreneurial, outside-the-box thinkers who relish responsibility, demand immediate feedback, and expect a sense of accomplishment hourly.
Methods of Cross-Cultural Pastoral Care: Hospitality and Incarnation. / by "In pastoral care and counseling it is not enough to borrow from the counseling psychologies for methodology. One reason for this is that the context out of which the method develops in the counseling psychologies is different from the context of the church. The techniques should be specific to the context in which pastoral care and counseling is provided."
Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships / by Sherwood Lingenfelter, Marvin K. Mayers Demonstrates that Jesus needed to learn and understand the culture in which he lived before he could undertake his public ministry. The authors examine how this can help us better understand what it means to establish relationships of grace.
Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond / by David F. Hesselgrave and David J. Hesselgrave. This edition has been almost 20 years in the making.
Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling / by Mark R. McMinn Part of the professional series that offers counselors the latest techniques, theory, and general information that is vital to their work.
Quick-Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling / by Dr. Tim Clinton and Dr. Ron Hawkins. A guide for those wanting to do biblical counseling.
Sin and Grace in Christian Counseling, by Mark R. McMinn. (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books.) " In Christian theology sin and grace are intrinsically interconnected. ..Christian counseling, then, must also take account of both human sin and God's grace. ..., [the author] aims to help all those preparing for or currently serving in the helping professions..."
Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World / by Mae Elise Cannon. "... while none of us can do everything, all of us call do something. This handbook will help you discover what you can do." "Mae Elise Cannon provides a comprehensive resource for Christians committed to social justice."
Strategies for Smooth and Effective Cross-Cultural Online Collaborative Learning. / by Juinfeng Yang, Kinshuk, Huiju Yu, Sue-Jen Chen, and Ronghuai Huang. "As the communication between different cultures is becoming more and more frequent, the competence of cross-cultural awareness and collaboration is emerging as a key ability in the 21st century. Face to face communication is the most efficient way to cultivate the competence of cross-cultural awareness and collaboration. However, there are very few opportunities currently available for university students to have such face to face communication. Therefore, cross-cultural online collaborative learning utilizing web 2.0 technologies is proposed ..."
Street Children and Homeless Youth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Examines several aspects of the children and their street situations, including the families of origin and the homes they leave, the children’s social life, and mental health. Other aspects are the problems of published demographics, the construction of public opinion about these children and the, often violent, reactions from authorities. The book then discusses current research on children in street situations, as well as programs and policies.
Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption / by Jay E. Adams Provides insight into the rich theological framework that supports and directs a biblical approach to counseling.
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds / by David Pollock and Ruth Van Reken An enlightening look at the challenges of children of expatriates, missionaries, and others who grow up outside their home culture.
What Next?: Connecting Your Ministry to Generation X / by Augsburg Fortress Publishing Offers practical and realistic approaches to meeting the generation's unique congregational needs--drawing from the experiences of congregational leaders who effectively minister to, and with, Generation X. Contains a variety of music, worship, and preaching styles.
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor ..and Yourself. / by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert. "Whether you’re involved in short-term missions or the long-term empowerment of the poor, this book helps teach you three key areas: · Foundational Concepts: Who are the poor? · Principles: Should we do relief, rehabilitation, or development ..." Website information.
Working on Common Cross-cultural Communication Challenges Discusses six fundamental patterns of cultural difference.

LCSH	Keyword
GENERATION X	Gen-Xers
GENERATION Y	Millenials
OLDER people	older adults
PARENTS of children with disabilities	parents of disabled children
SUBSTANCE abuse	persons with substance abuse issues
CHURCH & substance abuse
STREET children	homelessness
HOMELESS persons	street people
DEAF	deaf community
THIRD culture children	third-culture kids
WOMEN
DISABLED veterans	wounded veterans

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