This book has been written for the benefit of all ministers, priests, nuns, and laymen who are engaged in religious counseling. It emphasizes the special type of dialogue required, demonstrates the need for developing proper counseling attitudes, and describes the nature and vari ous concepts of religious counseling.

Father Vaughan draws on findings from psychological research and clinical practice that benefited his own ex-perience as a religious counselor to show how recent dis-coveries in psychology can improve the effectiveness of religious counseling. Humanistic psychology and its ap-proaches are combined with spiritual principles and the-ology to explain the function of counseling and the re-sults it should achieve. The author explains how religious counseling differs from personality counseling or psy-chotherapy, yet how both contain certain aids to the re-ligious counseling field.

An Introduction to Religious Counseling makes its points clearly and uses many interesting examples from the au-thor's experience. It offers valuable information to those who want to become successful counselors, stressing throughout the need for the counselor to understand the counselee asking for his assistance.

Special Features: Defines religious counseling Com

bines humanistic psychology with theology Improves counseling skills Presents ideas based on research and experience