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An experienced pastoral counselor, working exclusively with clergy families, draws on his clinical experience to review the needs of clergy couples. Typical patterns of crisis in clergy marriages, and procedures for effective intervention, are described.
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Larry W. Sonner,Family Crises, (Unpublished presentation to a Training Session for District Superintendents and Directors of Conference Councils, Nashville, Tennessee, September, 1978.)
Richard B. Stuart,Marital Pre-Counseling Inventory (Champaign, Illinois: Research Press, 1973).
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Dr. Houts is Director of Pastoral Care and Counseling, The Illinois Area, for the United Methodist Church. He is actively involved in the work of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and contributed an earlier article on “The Pastoral Care of Pastors” to the Spring, 1977 issue of this journal. Reprint requests for the present article should be addressed to him at 1701 South Prospect, Suite 19, Champaign, Illinois 61820.
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Houts, D.C. Marriage counseling with clergy couples. Pastoral Psychol 30, 141–150 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01151719
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01151719