Stone H W
Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth 76129, USA.
J Pastoral Care. 1999 Spring;53(1):31-45. doi: 10.1177/002234099905300105.
Recalls that although long-term psychotherapy was the underpinning of pastoral counseling in its early days of development and remains so for many practitioners today, recent outcome studies demonstrate that brief counseling is what in fact counselees prefer and is as effective as long-term therapy. It is what congregational pastors traditionally practiced for generations. Suggests that pastoral care-givers practice short-term counseling, arguing that the dissonance that occurs when one believes in the superiority of long-term counseling but nevertheless engages in primarily short-term counseling disrupts therapeutic ends. Proposes that brief pastoral counseling needs to be the model of choice for contemporary pastoral counselors, not only for practical reasons but for moral reasons as well.
回顾到，尽管长期心理治疗在其发展初期是牧师辅导的基础，并且如今对许多从业者来说依然如此，但最近的疗效研究表明，实际上咨询对象更喜欢短程咨询，而且短程咨询与长期治疗一样有效。这是传统上教会牧师几代人一直践行的方式。建议牧师护理人员采用短程咨询，理由是当一个人相信长期咨询的优越性但却主要进行短程咨询时所产生的不一致会破坏治疗目的。提出短程牧师咨询不仅出于实际原因，也出于道德原因，需要成为当代牧师咨询师的首选模式。
