Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities

Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, and contemporary guide to community care and counseling. Its aim is to prepare those who would help all who suffer emotionally. Its emphases on the dynamics of change, on wholeness, and on community as not only the context for healing but the means by which healing happens, on an inclusive understanding of spirituality, and on the caregiver/counselor who these days is as likely to be a lay person as a member of the clergy -- all place the book on the leading edge of its field.