Importance of Faith in Counseling

by Jay E. Adams

Book by Adams, Jay E.

Genres: Counselling

76 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Jay Edward Adams is a Reformed Christian author. He has written over 100 books and these have been published in sixteen languages.
He received a Bachelor of Divinity from Reformed Episcopal Seminary, a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Johns Hopkins University,a Masters in Sacred Theology from Temple University, and a PhD in Speech from the University of Missouri.
Adams' book Competent to Counsel launched the nouthetic counseling movement, a movement whose aim was to use strictly biblical counseling methods. He is the founder of the Intitute for Nothetic Studies.

Reviews

[Joshua Pannell]

Some helpful ideas here, but, as expected, Adams lacks the proper nuance, compassion, and gospel-centrality I’d hope to experience and/or model in counseling.

[Larry J.]

Practical

Great book that give hard facts to difficult situations. I recommend it to everyone in Pastoral or counseling ministry. The need for faith based approach is clear in this book

[Daniel]

Very helpful

[Marc Plazola]

Jay Adams provides an incredibly needed emphasis on faith (that counselors often lack) in the realm of counseling. Adams sets the premise of the book on Hebrews 11:6. Surely, "without faith it is impossible to please God." Consider this: Faith and works without the other is dead (James 2:17,26). So, by not emphasizing faith, we would be trying to encourage our counselees to please God with dead works! This book is definitely a resource belonging on the bookshelves of all counselors.