Cyrus R. Williams III – författare

Career, Lifestyle, and Spiritual Development: Work, Purpose, Calling, and God helps readers develop the knowledge required to assist career counseling clients in understanding how work and other life roles are connected to their individual purpose and spiritual life.The book is divided into five sections with each chapter written by a key expert in the field. Section 1 discusses the history of work from scriptural and secular perspectives, ethical practices, and how to conduct a client assessment. Section 2 covers major career counseling theories and theorists and includes a chapter dedicated to spiritual approaches to career counseling. In Section 3, students learn how to help clients discover vocational strengths and set meaningful career goals. Sections 4 and 5 focus on counseling diverse populations and meeting the unique needs of clients. The text employs Biblical scripture, case studies, counseling theory, personal accounts, and activities to reinforce learnings.The second edition features updates on job loss transition, career counseling, and the history of calling and career counseling.Career, Lifestyle, and Spiritual Development is ideal for courses in career or pastoral counseling, lifestyle development, and human services, especially those offered at faith-based institutions. The book contains all the information required for use in a CACREP-accredited counseling program.

Recognizing that spirituality and religion are protective factors for individuals in recovery and can inspire greater levels of sobriety, Addictions Counseling: Body, Soul, and Spirit provides readers with a Christ-centered model for understanding, intervening, and facilitating growth with clients facing issues with addiction. The text features contributed chapters from a variety of professional addiction counselors and shares a wide array of perspectives, theories, tools, and interventions that have been proven to help individuals overcome trauma and their dependence on destructive chemicals and behaviors. The textbook provides a clear understanding of addictions in our society and equips readers with leading addiction theories and proven interventions complemented by spiritually based case studies and scriptures that can be used as alternatives or enhancements to secular techniques. It recognizes the diversity of individuals trying to overcome addiction, as well as the various types of addiction clients may experience. The book reveals the unique opportunity professional helpers have to leverage religion and spirituality to move clients past the idea of being clean and sober and toward a greater goal of personal wholeness and a stronger relationship with God. Featuring all the information needed to satisfy CACREP standards, Addictions Counseling provides future and current counselors, clinical supervisors, counselor educators, and pastors and ministers with the information they need to help heal the body, soul, and spirit of those facing addiction.