ENJOY!!! (Especially Pastors)
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HOW TO SCARE OFF COUNSELEES
Not every pastor enjoys counseling. But other than by skipping town, how can you decrease the demand? Here, based on specious clinical research, are a dozen methods guaranteed to keep counseling off your to-do list.
12 Ways to Reduce Your Counseling Load
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Your friend in Chrst,
Doc
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HOW TO SCARE OFF COUNSELEES
Not every pastor enjoys counseling. But other than by skipping town, how can you decrease the demand? Here, based on specious clinical research, are a dozen methods guaranteed to keep counseling off your to-do list.
12 Ways to Reduce Your Counseling Load
- Don't put a door on your office.
[*]Sing songs such as "Put On a Happy Face" and "Don't Worry; Be Happy" to counselees.
[*]Step out of the office and start laughing uproariously.
[*]Tell the counselee that although you can't figure out a solution to the problem, you'll bring it up in the sermon on Sunday and see if anybody has any ideas.
[*]Casually catch up on your reading while counselees bare their deepest problems.
[*]Tell the counselee you are videotaping the session for replay on the local cable program: Candid Clergy.
[*]Put a bumper sticker on your car: "I'd rather not be counseling."
[*]Refer them to a helpful article in your favorite professional journal: The National Enquirer.
[*]Suggest counseling by fax machine.
[*]In front of the counselee, phone your spouse and ask for his or her opinion on what to do.
[*]Recite tales of people who are a lot worse off, and call the counselee a crybaby.
[*]Engage the counselee's mother-in-law as a co-therapist.
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Your friend in Chrst,
Doc
