| An education in Pastoral Counseling is no further away | | | | counselors set about to refine the process of |
| than your computer or your mailbox. The education | | | | analyzing temperaments because while they saw |
| that used to require you go to and reside in a dorm or | | | | significant merit in the system, there were some |
| apartment for years, run up a lifetime's worth of debt, | | | | discrepancies that simply called for further investigation. |
| and struggle for years, can now be as close as your | | | | As a result of their work, they discovered that it takes |
| mailbox or your computer. | | | | five major categories to properly define the human |
| The coursework and practical applications that will | | | | temperament instead of the previous four. They also |
| provide you with a professional education are available | | | | discovered that the temperament is situational. A |
| in several formats. One format is the more traditional | | | | person whose temperament is one way in certain |
| home study version, with textbooks, workbooks, audio | | | | areas of life may behave completely differently when |
| cd's, DVD's and so forth. Newer, and slowly gaining | | | | faced with different circumstances. |
| acceptance, are programs that are entirely online. | | | | Thirdly, they discovered that most people were not |
| Coursework, exams, the whole package entirely on | | | | simply one temperament or another. Rather, the |
| line. Including your instructor's oversight. comments and | | | | temperaments blend, resulting in infinitely variable |
| supervision. "Cloud computing." | | | | possibilities. Of course, infinite is a little difficult to deal |
| Pastoral Counseling typically incorporates some of the | | | | with, so from a practical standpoint, based on the limits |
| valid theories derives from secular counseling and | | | | of the testing instruments they developed, they ended |
| combines these ideas with the truth of the scripture. | | | | up with 4913 different possible categorizations for the |
| Prayer, meditation, and following the commandments | | | | human temperament. |
| are just a part of the package that produces results | | | | While this is a large number, it is essentially the |
| superior to those available by any other method. | | | | fractional application of a matrix of 5 variables 3 levels |
| Most programs will include the temperament as | | | | deep. In practice, a Pastoral Counselor using this |
| foundational item. Christian Psychologists discovered | | | | temperament inventory can analyze a temperament |
| that it was possible to accurately analyze human | | | | with 10-15 minutes, obtaining information that might not |
| temperaments by the use of an inventory type | | | | be discerned in month of one-on-one traditional |
| questionnaire. Dr Timothy LaHaye popularized this idea | | | | counseling. Efficiencies like this are part of the reason |
| starting in the 1960's, writing numerous books and | | | | Pastoral Counseling is developing such a good |
| articles about the subject. | | | | reputation. |
| In the 1980's, a pair of Christian PhD educators and | | | | |