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Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling: An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track Hardcover – Illustrated, May 7, 2011

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An original, effective, and time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands—fully updated and expanded.

Professional counselor and pastor Dr. Charles Allen Kollar found that counseling does not need not be long-term or depend on psychological manipulation to produce dramatic results. In most cases, the solution lies with the counselees themselves.

Using the tested methods found in Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, pastors, apart from counselors, will be well equipped to:

  • help their counselees discover a solution and put it in motion speedily and productively
  • Institute healthy change by helping the counselee see and work on the solution with God’s activity already present in his/her life
  • create solutions with—not for—the counselee

Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling does not require the counselor to be a highly trained psychological expert. It requires biblically based sensitivity and common sense. Yet this approach also recognizes its limitations and understands that there are situations in which other professional and/or medical help is required.

This book reveals the possibility of life without the problem through an understanding of what is different when the problem does not occur or is less intrusive.

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Dr. Charles Allen Kollar is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Relationship Specialist, and the lead pastor at Innovation Church in Cresco, PA

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan; Second edition (May 7, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0310329299
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310329299
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.39 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 0.95 x 9.3 inches
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Charles Kollar grew up in New York where he worked as a drummer with various club bands. At age 23 he had a life-changing personal encounter with Jesus. Due to this encounter he began a life of service that has included being the pastor of four congregations, serving three tours as a U.S. Navy Chaplain and becoming an author and counselor. The heart of Dr. Kollar's message is a joy-filled faith and a life that focuses on God's possibilities as already achieved. His passion for seeing God's purpose fulfilled is presently impacting the Pocono's where he serves as Lead Pastor at Innovation Church (InnovationLife.org).

Charles received his undergraduate degree from Northwest University, a Master of Divinity from the Assembly of God Theological Seminary and his Doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary. A Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Charles is the author of Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, Mastering Life, Master of the Ride, Brief Christian Counseling and is featured in Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling, edited by Howard Stone. Charles and and his wife Dawn have three grown children and six amazing grandchildren. They reside in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.

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jake
5.0 out of 5 stars Blown away
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023
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I purchased this book for my graduate class at Liberty University. This book is amazing. If you are counseling as a profession, a pastor, or just interested in how to help others with life, I would highly recommend this book. Dr. Kollar gives theory, practice, and application in his book to help the counselor better understand, serve, and give hope to the counseled. The models and application to life are spot on.
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pixledust
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2017
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This is an excellent book. It offers real hope to those seeking solutions to their problems. It is written for a Christian audience, but has wisdom for all audiences. It details the problems with traditional counseling models and then sets forth a short-term solution based model that will allow the client to see progress in the first session. The books basic premise is that the client should be setting the counseling goals and is an expert on his/her own life. It shows the counselor how to be attuned to the things the Holy Spirit is already doing in the clients life. It gives practical strategies to point out, support and affirm the clients in their efforts to create and clarify solutions. This is one of the best counseling books I've ever read.
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MKennedy
5.0 out of 5 stars Confidence and Authority for the Pastoral Counselor
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2012
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Kollar's book empowers the local church pastor to lead counselees into positive change without carrying the burden of being something other than an expert in psychology. He presents the argument that pastors have been trained to refer far too many cases to secular mental health agencies and professionals when these same pastors have the tools they need to help get the people who come to them "unstuck" and moving forward in a positive way. Kollar gives a practical model for pastors to use to achieve this goal.

Kollar's book is an application of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), a therapy that has been proven by secular research to be at least as successful as other methods of therapy. I recommend doing some research on SFBT and reading Strategic Pastoral Counseling: A Short-Term Structured Model by David G. Benner, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Spirituality at Psychological Studies Institute, Richmond Graduate University (Atlanta).

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a method of therapy developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg at the Milwaukee Brief Therapy Center which they founded in 1978. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) purposely does not focus on the cause of a problem. In fact, one of the method's underlying assumptions is that a counselor or therapist does not necessarily need to know much at all about a person's problem to help them. This seems counterintuitive, but Kollar makes the argument that many other psychologists have been making for the last 30 years that focusing on a person's illness is a carryover from medical practices grounded more in medical culture than in research. See Trepper, Terry S., Eric E. McCollum, Peter De Jong, Harry Korman, Wallace Gingerich, and Cynthia Franklin. 2010. Solution focused therapy treatment manual for working with individuals. [Hammond, IN?]: Research Committee of the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association. [...]

For an academic overview of the effectiveness of SFBT read "Solution-Focused Brief Therapy" by Cynthia Franklin, Terry S. Trepper, Eric E. McCollum, and Wallace J. Gingerich (2011). For a good brief overview of SFBT, read Gail R. Greenberg, Keren Ganshorn and Alanna Danilkewic's 2001 article "Solution-focused therapy; A counseling model for busy family physicians" in Canadian Family Physician, 47 (November): 2289-2295. [...]
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Kyle Nielsen
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2021
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Kollar did an excellent job explaining a short-term model in the context of a Pastoral counseling relationship. This book has practical steps for the beginner to learn and begin to wrap their head around. This is a must read for the lay counselor who is thinking about counseling.
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MamaBear
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, great price
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017
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I LOVE this book. The Solution-Focused approach that Kollar presents is much more helpful than the experience I've had with traditional counseling approaches. I appreciate how he is bluntly (almost brutally) honest about some of the pitfalls of traditional counseling, while also allowing that the approach he presents may not be the best fit for every situation.
I bought this book through Amazon Prime cheaper than it was offered through my school bookstore, so that was a bonus! :)
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Jackie Scrivanich
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource
Reviewed in Canada on September 30, 2016
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As a pastor counseling is a part of the job. This book is a great resource for that.
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Hannah
3.0 out of 5 stars Be Discerning
Reviewed in Canada on April 3, 2014
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This book was required for my course on counselling theory and skill development. The method is very useful for those with little training in counselling who are working with adults and who know when to refer. Many of Kollar's personal opinions, however, need to be taken with a grain of salt. My advice is to read the book, take the major principles to integrate into your practice, and think critically about the rest.
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