Would you like to know how to comfort people who are hurt, confused, frightened, or otherwise in need of emotional support?

This step-by-step counseling guide is designed for non-specialists just like you. Written in plain English by a renowned counselor, Family, Friends, and Strangers shows how to offer people good advice and effective care. It includes

Rules for giving advice

A list of don'ts (to help the Christian know the proper limits of his or her involvement)

Ways to help people who are angry or depressed

Specifics involved in counseling a spouse, neighbor, stranger, or family member

LOWELL D. STREIKER has appeared on the "Merv Griffin Show,""CBS Morning News," and in the pages of Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and other periodicals. An ordained minister, he has counseled people from all walks of life: millionaires, a rock star, welfare mothers. He is the former executive director of Freedom Counseling Center in Burlingame, California, and former executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Mateo County, California.