Sentences with phrase «helps troubled persons»

Though most parishes are ill equipped for helping every troubled person to find an appropriate slip - port group, still for many a parishioner this can be done.

Community clergymen can therefore move into action in the prevention of mental and emotional disturbances in each of these three areas: (1) by using the mental health center resources to make their total pastoral ministry more effective in the early detection of problems; (2) by becoming more comfortable in the use of their own style of helping troubled people so that some crisis situations can be contained; (3) by using the rich resources of social concern in the churches to attack the wider problems out of which so many individual cases of emotional disturbance arise.

This is a wonderful book about Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), an approach to helping troubled people which might revolutionize psychotherapy.

It is the privilege of our profession to be able to help troubled people along this path, and though medications may make this journey less arduous, in the long run, therapists are indispensable for getting their clients to this destination.

Not exact matches

In fact, a hot shower or bath is what many doctors recommend for people who have trouble falling asleep — to help them fall asleep.

The book helped me understand how other people think and why we run into trouble by trying to conform or follow other people's formulas for success.

If one is having trouble with a boss or co-worker, Epstein suggests, it helps to learn that other people are having similar difficulties.

We really don't want stinky, addicted, mentally ill, poor, troubled people, prostitutes, gays, people who need help, and the list goes on and on.

His comment about not praying about people with troubles anymore, but offering practical help instead, makes me wonder if he ever bothered reading the bible.

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

In a small volume intended to help ordinary people, who most certainly are hardly likely to become «mystics» in the technical sense, it would only be troubling and confusing to deal with such matters.

Pruyser acknowledges a variety of motivations that may bring people to pastors for help in their trouble, but maintains that pastors sell themselves short if they overlook the most probable of all reasons: that the person had in mind some «soulsearching,» a look at the self through theological lenses.

He was essentially a clinician who wrote for other therapists to communicate what he had learned about his primary concern — how to help deeply troubled people.

Being exposed to this attitude in the minister, the troubled person comes to feel encouraged to reach out of the loneliness of his isolation for the help which is available.

Troubled people are more apt to seek help from a clergyman than from a member of any other professional group.

How about a study, that religious Americans are more likely to support a war or blame all troubles on God, rather than themselves... You believe or don't all you want, but please stop misleading people, with worthless studies and instead put more energy and resources to help those in need...

But all we want is to help our people, to be instruments of mediating the Word and the finger of God to these human, likable, troubled, and sinful people.

If Jesus did not rise, then we are left with Christianity being just another man - made world religion which tries to help people live life as best as possible, and I am convinced that despite all the troubles within Christianity, it provides the best solutions to all of life's questions and problems.

The association of family trouble or divorce with the end of a life may imply that an ordained person is more spiritually qualified to be able to help.

We know from a recent study that nearly as many troubled people seek counseling from clergymen as from all other helping professions combined.

While psychiatrists will, of course, be available to help people with a homosexual orientation if they want such help, the APA's decision is a clear disclaimer of responsibility for changing homosexual persons who are not troubled by their orientation and whose behavior is not socially irresponsible.

It should be a group of people you can call on when trouble arise, and go help others when they are experiencing troubles.

More, her edifying maxim was disabling, even cruel: you can not help people face their troubles by telling them that they have no troubles.»

Well, of course it's true, but when a person is facing trouble and trials in life, does chanting this do anything to help?

What is needed in place of this is what most clergymen already have — an intense interest in helping someone who is in trouble, the ability to conceptualize a problem, and the ability not to be overwhelmed by the person's feelings of depression or confusion.

Personal warmth and the evidence of competence are essential ingredients in a sermon that open doors for troubled people to seek help.

One criterion for judging the effectiveness of a sermon is the number of troubled persons who seek help during the following week.

Such direct involvement in helping deeply troubled people forces a congregation to test the reality of its dedication to loving God and neighbor.

It can help people through troubling times in their lives.

I know that both while I was drinking and in periods of sobriety I have trouble in personal relationships, I can't control my emotional nature [not to be confused with my emotions], I was a prey to misery and depression, I couldn't make a living [a life worth living], I had a feeling of uselessness, I was full of fear, I was unhappy and I couldn't seem to be of real help to other people.

Enabling troubled people to «own» their feelings of inadequacy and then use them as a challenge to develop personally and socially useful compensation is a healthy way to help them transform minuses into partial pluses.

The most effective counselor is one who takes risks in order to help those who need his help, who makes an unguarded commitment to stand by the troubled person through thick and thin.

Nothing is more likely to help a person overcome and endure objective difficulties or subjective troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.»

IT is too hard for people, especially family members, to see or comprehend mental illness as it is spiralling our to control unless you get help from someone who does know... The deal is a normal person, any age, any education or background can become» unglued» for no apparent outward reason... except they seem to be acting off or weird or troubled, confused, saying or doing strange stuff... and a lot of times these people are getting drugs coming into our nation from Mexico and points south by illegal aliens who purport to be «just looking for a job»...

He had trouble saying No to requests, partly because he wanted to help people, partly because his zest for life and action was so great.

Ministers, physicians, psychotherapists, social workers, and others whose work includes helping people in trouble have the problem thrust at them many times in the course of their professional activity As I think back over my own professional experience, I am impressed by the variety of such encounters.

[7] These acts ultimately aim to help persons deal with questions about the meaning and worth of their lives by helping them not only to understand their troubles in a fresh way in the light of God's presence but also actively to live through their troubles in the context of God's presence.

Their idea was to create an oasis to help people with troubles get better through nature, food, and a place to stay.

I thought this might help for people having trouble with the BOTTLE NIPPLE CLOGGING.

What if people who were having trouble could just text for help and she could come right over?

If an animal is owned by a person, they usually help the rare little one that is having trouble.

Among people with mild or moderate anxiety, reading before bed can sometimes help induce calmness and alleviate anxiety by taking your mind off of troubling thoughts, which can then lead to a better night of sleep.

I get to help people who are about to give up on cloth because their co-op or walmart can't trouble shoot for them.

You have to reinforce to your children that you are a shoulder to cry on, a person to vent to, and someone who will help when they are in trouble.

Humanist Society Scotland (HSS) say they regularly receive complaints from parents and pupils troubled by religious practice in their schools and have published A Guide for Non-Religious Parents and A Guide for Non-Religious Young People to help them understand their rights.

Instead, there are a wide range of interventions, from the availability of youth mentors to building young people's self esteem, that help keep young people out of trouble with the authorities.

INWOOD — Rep. Charlie Rangel forcefully defended a politically connected but financially troubled Northern Manhattan nonprofit he helped steer $ 2.6 million in funding toward, saying Sunday that many people have benefited from the work of Alianza Dominicana.

It's the deeply - ingrained disdain that Grenfell residents and others complain bitterly about — the dismissal of people's concerns about homelessness and housing standards, council refusals to respond to questions, and a general assumption by authorities that people who need housing help exaggerate their troubles, or even lie.

The audience in the library was told there are programs to keep young people on the straight and narrow and programs to help them if they get in trouble.

I think whether it's through our troubled families intitiative or through our help to young people, through the education system, whether it's about to get the universal benefit, it's about trying to bring the best out of people - making sure they understand there's another way, making sure they get the opportunity to do better, to experience wider things.»