Topic Suggestion/Request:
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I am in a position where I am increasingly asked to give counsel to people regarding a wide variety of issues - marriage, lack of marriage, addictions, anxiety, etc. Often these problems (and the requisite counsel) are relatively simple, but sometimes something complex comes up and I am not as thoroughly equipped to deal with it as I would like to be. The trained and credentialed people to whom I would typically be advised to refer them - pastors, psychologists, therapists - are often questionable and I feel I’d be doing them a disservice by doing so.
Do you have any advice or recommendations for books or other resources that would be helpful? Both secular and Christian works on this subject are often reductive in the ways expounded in the Addicted to Psychologizing episode of Stone Choir.
Reasoning:
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Given the failings of the churches, this is a task the Christian man will have to more often bear.