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Counseling People with Cancer (Counseling and Pastoral Theology)

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Aldredge-Clanton provides a helpful and practical hope-theology framework for counseling people with cancer. She describes how counselors can listen carefully to patients,understand their current spiritual beliefs, and then offer them additional or different sacred images and stories so that they can make sense and meaning out of their experience. The author does an especially good job of suggesting sacred images and stories that honor nontraditional belief systems.

This insightful book was a tremendous help to my husband and me. We have a support group for families facing catastrophic illness and are frequently called upon to give advice and counsel. Written from a Christian view point, the book is the perfect combination of practical and spiritual--both of which need to be addressed in counseling cancer patients and their loved ones. The authors personal experience with her father's illness gives particular credibility to her writing.