This course is approximately 225 pages in length. The candidate will receive specific information regarding stress, anger and guilt with the emphasis on the need to develop family relationships. This course utilizes the N.C.C.A.s counseling model, Temperament Therapy.

This course has been specifically designed to assist the pastoral counselor in his/her vitaly important counseling and teaching ministry. The four modules selected for inclusion in this study present material which can produce healthy effects in the life and ministry of the local congregation and the community. While aim of this course is the mastery of its content, it is hoped that the student will use the four study modules in teaching settings. Developing and administering pre- and post-tests can help measure the growth of learning as a result of studying this course. Using such teaching strategies has caused tremendous educational and spiritual growth in the Christian community which we have worked with in the past.

Specific Content:

UNIT ONE: (Stress of Anger and Guilt, Understanding Stress and Personality, Stress and Interpersonal Relationships, Stress and Disease, Cardiovascular-Respiratory Endurance, Body Composition, Muscular Strength and Endurance, Flexibility, Diagnosis of Stress Overload, Effective Stress Management).

UNIT TWO: (The nature of the Church, Proclaiming the truth, Meeting for Worship, Getting acquainted, The ministry of caring for one another, When the Church becomes dysfunctional).

UNIT THREE: (God's design for the family, Our Family of Origin, Family Subsystems, Parenting, Christian Marriage, Premarital preparation, Considering the children, Parental guidance suggested, Loving our children, Children with special problems, and Etiology of Avoidant Personality Disorder: A Case Study).

UNIT FOUR: (A Biblical approach to Crisis Intervention, Crises in Life, Helping someone who is depressed, The crisis of suicide, and the crisis of death).