The classic counseling handbook for churches, classrooms, and the helping professions.This revised and expanded third edition of Gary R. Collins's comprehensive counseling guide offers solid biblical teaching on how to counsel and wise guidance on a broad range of situations counselors are likely to encounter.Christian Counseling provides updated, extensive coverage of the most common issues troubling those who seek counseling, such asAbuseAddictionsAgingAnxietyCareer decisionsCrisesDepressionGriefInferiorityMarriage and relationship problemsClearly written and easy-to-read, Christian Counseling provides lasting value as a textbook for students and their professors, a training tool for lay counselors, a source of information for those seeking a greater understanding of human behavior, and a primer on the biblical foundation for Christian counseling.