Key Learning Guide
Healing For the City
Counseling in the Urban Setting
Rescue College
Course 401- Counseling in the City
Instructor- Dr. Roslyn Turner-Clark
This study outline is to be used as a student study guide for course 401, “Counseling in
the City”. Use this outline to take your personal reading notes. Answer the questions
pertaining to each chapter and submit to your instructor at the specified times. Use this
guide as an aid to study for Midterm and Final exams.
Healing for the City
Chapter 1
Stress and Urban Life
I. The nature of Stress
II.
Sources of Stress
a. Overload
b. Psychospiritual Needs
c. Personality Styles
d. Social-Psychological Factors
e. Environmental Factors
f. Bio-ecological Factors
Questions:
1. What does the author mean when the uses the term “threat”, in terms of the city
dwellers perception.
2. Describe four sources of stress.
Chapter 2
The Nature of Counseling
I.
Preparation for Counseling
II.
The Counselor
III.
Goals of Counseling
IV.
Healing and the Counseling Process
a. Basic Conditions
b. Overview of Helping
V.
Human Beings as Systems
VI.
Healing as Multimodal
VII.
Formal and Informal Counseling
Questions:
1. What is the difference between an intermediate and long term goal? Give
examples of each.
2. Explain the role of acceptance in the counseling process.
3. Briefly explain the four steps in the counseling process outlined by Robert
Carkhuff?
4. The Multimodal model devised by Lazarus includes the concept of the BASIC
ID. Please describe this concept.
Chapter 3
Counseling in the Urban Church
I.
Counseling and Discipleship
II.
Counseling and the Laity
a. Selection
b. Training
c. Best fit
d. Commissioning
e. Supervision
III.
Preventative Counseling Through Education
IV.
Counseling and Preaching
V.
Counseling and Advocacy
VI.
Limitations and Limits
VII.
Referral
Questions:
1. How are counseling and discipleship compatible?
2. How could you integrate the two with the counseling you provide?
3. What is the Messiah Complex?
Chapter 4
Contextualized Counseling
I.
Culture and Counseling
II.
Concepts of Time and Visible Progress
III.
Psychological Dysfunction and Culture
IV.
Language Issues in Counseling
V.
Individualized vs. Group Approaches
VI.
Family Counseling
Questions:
1. Ellison states, “The very process of counseling is either supported by or
sabotaged by the culture from which a person comes…” Explain what is
meant by this statement.
2. How can language present itself as an issue in the counseling setting?
3. When is group counseling an effective strategy?
4. Take the assessment on page 84-84. What did you learn about yourself?
Chapter 5
Confronting Evil
I.
Racism
a. The Effects of Racism
b. Anger
c. Racism and Christianity
III. The Demonic and Deliverance
Questions:
1. In dealing with anger, why is it important to assess in what area of the
BASIC ID the anger is manifesting?
2. Are demonization and mental illness one in the same? Can one occur without
the other?
Chapter 6
Counseling Asians
I. Characteristics of the Asian –American population
II. Biblical Perspectives on Cross-cultural Counseling and Ministry
III. Guidelines for effective Counseling with Asians
Questions:
1. Comment on the statement Christian Counseling should be seen as a means
of Christian liberation and not cultural oppression.
2. Review the following scriptures: John 4:4-42, 1 Cor. 12:12-13, Gal. 3:26, Col.
3:10-11. Comment on the cultural transcendence of the Gospel.
Chapter 7
Counseling Blacks
I.
Psychosocial Issues
II.
The Family
III.
Language Issues
IV.
Identity Issues
V.
Counseling Issues
VI.
Family Counseling
Questions:
1. What are Jim Crow laws, and how do they still shape the thinking of some
African Americans?
2. Why is the ecological model crucial in working with black inner-city
families?
Chapter 8
Counseling Hispanics
I.
Worldview
II.
Crossing to another culture
III.
When Hispanics do request help
IV.
Holistic Treatment Considerations
V.
Counseling is a move towards friendship
VI.
The Acculturation and Assimilation Continuum
VII.
Intervention with the Hispanic male; is it possible?
VIII.
The Hispanic Female
IX.
Hispanic Children
X.
How to Begin Treatment
XI.
The Church, Prayer, and the Hispanic Client
Questions:
1. As a counselor, how do you integrate the concept of emotional distance and
boundaries with the Hispanic view of kinship?
2. How do the following effect the counseling process: machismo, sobrevivir,
destiny of suffering, and family loyalty among Hispanic children.
Chapter 9
Addictive Behaviors
I.
Creative Compulsions
II.
Overview of Case studies
III.
Goals of Counseling- 10 steps to overcoming
Questions:
1. Why is it important that a counselee “Face pain and deny the false self”?
2. Name five types of addictive behaviors and their symptoms
Chapter 10
Adult Children of Alcoholics
I.
Analysis and goals of Case Study
Questions:
1. What are symptoms commonly seen in an ACOA?
2. List scriptures you might use in order to help a counselee find a new identity
rooted in the mercy and forgiving love of Christ?
Chapter 11
AIDS
I.
Overview of AIDS and current statistics
II.
Analysis and goals of case studies
Questions:
1. Choose either John or Pedro as your counselee. Tell briefly what strategies
you would use in counseling either of these aids victims.
2. How would you help the spouse of a former IV drug user who has now been
diagnosed with AIDS?
Chapter 12
Marital Conflict
I.
Faulty Communication
II.
Disillusionment
III.
Ineffective Conflict Resolution
IV.
Lack of Affirmation
V.
Rules
VI.
Selfishness
VII.
Differences
VIII.
Loyalty Issues
IX.
Personal Distortions
X.
Infidelity
XI.
Parenting
XII.
Blended Families
Questions:
1. Choose five sources of marital conflict. List therapeutic goals and principles you
would utilize in working with Colleen’s family on page 224.
Chapter 13
Domestic Abuse
I.
Crisis intervention
Analysis, strategies, and goals of Counselor and counselee
Questions:
1. What are the four phases of crisis intervention?
2. Using the case of Susan and Peter analyze the affect of both spouses.
3. Should an abused spouse remain in a marriage? State your reasons behind
your answer.
4. In counseling an abuser what would be your first priority in goal setting?
Chapter14
Divorce Recovery
I.
Case Study Analysis and goals
Questions:
1. Name three issues you would need to help a newly divorced woman with 2
preschool children, living in a shelter environment.
2. How would you counsel a man married for 15 years who is newly divorced,
jobless, and living in a shelter environment?
Chapter15
Single Parenting
I .Case Study analysis and goals
Questions:
1. What are three resources you can refer a single father raising two teens. He
has a job with limited income. He is living in a small apartment in an urban
area.
2. Take a look at Rosa’s spiritual goals listed on page 262. Tell how you can
assess these needs using her case study on page 259.
Chapter16
Crisis Pregnancies
I. Case studies, analysis and goals
Questions:
1. Define crisis pregnancy.
2. In looking at Raquel’s story (page 273), what goals would you set for her in
dealing with her current situation?
3. What would you assess regarding her cognition using the BASIC ID model?
Chapter 17
Sexual Abuse
I.
Cases Studies analysis and goals
Questions:
1. What are some of the problems caused by the trauma of childhood sexual abuse?
2. What are the six primary goals of helping a sexual abuse victim? Briefly explain
each.
3. What is your responsibility as a counselor when a child repots to you that he or
she has been inappropriately touched by an adult?
Chapter 18
Victimization
I.
Case studies, analysis and goals
Questions:
1. Why is it important to encourage a victim to tell their story?
2. How would you assess Geraldine’s affect and interpersonal relationships
using the BASIC ID?
3. How would you work with her mother?
Chapter 19
Stress
I.
Case studies, analysis and goals
Questions:
1. Where does stress intervention in counseling begin?
2. Give examples of the following: broken compass, helper mentality, negative
perception, and negative coping pattern. Give examples of each.
3. Using the planning grid name a problem focused intervention that is
cognitive in nature.
4. Using the planning grid name emotion focused intervention that is social in
nature.
5. Find five scriptures (other than those listed on page 317) that can be used
with counselees to reinforce God’s peace and comfort in a chaotic world.