What is it about?
This is a personal reflection based on my experience in a pastoral counseling situation. The case reflects my struggle with helping my client. It it raises questions about transference/ counter transference and boundaries. this situation is applicable to chaplains and pastoral counselors.
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Why is it important?
From a theological perspective it reflects the meaning of "Blessing" as described in Myron Madden's 1970 "The Power to Bless." Both the need for blessing as a part of healing our brokeness and who has the authority to bless?
Perspectives
This story also describes how we pastoral caregivers struggle with our own brokeness and need for healing.
Dr Joseph Baroody
Baroody Pastoral Counseling
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This page is a summary of: Meeting Jesus*, Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publications, December 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1542305018798568.
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